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C-FYNT at CSB3 - Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil on wheels.

Photo: Alain Rioux © 09 April 2007 - Aird Archives

C-FYNT at Ste Véronique three years later.

Photo: Peter Watson © 30 August 2006

C-FYNT departs CSW9.

Photo: Pierre Langlois © 08 June 2004 - via AirHistory.net

C-FYNT gets some maintenance at Ste Véronique.

Photo: Xavier Mouraux © 05 August 2003

C-FYNT at Marina Venise, near Montréal.

VH-IMC at Armidale before returning to Canada

Photo: Unknown photographer © 18 December 1993 - Michael J. Ody Collection

Photo: © Joe Barr

VH-IMC at Glen Innes - YGLI, NSW.

Photo: Unknown photographer © 30 March 1989 - Danny Turner Collection - AustAirData

VH-IMC at Bankstown - YSBK, NSW.

Photo: Alan Flett © November 1985 - Aird Archives

VH-IMC at Armidale - YARM, New South Wales.

Photo: Lenn Bayliss © c.1980

ZK-BXJ at Waipukaru.

Photo: Don Noble © 02 March 1974 - Graeme Mills Collection

ZK-BXJ at Hastings.

Photo: Don Noble © 25 October 1972 - Graeme Mills Collection

ZK-BXJ at Ardmore.

Photos: Peter Lewis © 28 January 1966

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56-0364 • N74085 • ZK-BXJ • VH-IMC (2)

C-FYNT

• 56-0364 US Army #1665. L-20 No. 666. Command A-11. Delivered 25-Feb-1957. Built as L-20A and re- designated U-6A in 1962.

• N74085 State Airlines, Charlotte, NC. Dates unknown.

• ZK-BXJ Imported by de Havilland New Zealand Ltd. First Flight in New Zealand 07-Oct-1965.

• ZK-BXJ Barr Bros (HB) Ltd., Waipukurau, NZ. Regd 08-Oct-1965. Converted to phosphate sprayer. Canx 09-Jul-1973.

Incident: Tutira, Hawke’s Bay, NZ. 02-Jun-1973. Collided with top dressing loader on landing. Pilot G. Brough.

Note: Stored at Palmerston North, NZ., from Jul-1973 until Apr-1974 when it was sold and exported “as is” to Australia.

• VH-IMC (2) Aerial Agriculture Pty., Bankstown, NSW. Regd 03-Apr-1974. Canx 19-Feb-1975. w.f.u. Restored 16-Apr-1975 and canx again as w.f.u. 13-Dec-1982.

• VH-IMC (2) Aerial Agriculture Pty., Ltd., Armidale / Walcha, NSW. Restored 01-Apr-1985. Canx 04-Mar-1996.

• C-FYNT Les Placements J S G P Inc., Laval-des-Rapides, QC. Regd 14-Jun-1996. Canx 10-Jul-2002.

• C-FYNT Club César (1993) Inc., St.-Hilaire, QC. Based Mascouche, QC. Regd 26-Jul-2002, 13-May-2005 and 09-Oct-2008.

Accident: 23 mi. SW of Lac Cesar, QC, 23-Sep-2008. The float-equipped aircraft owned by Club César (1993) Inc., with the pilot and one passenger on board, was on a visual flight rules flight from Sainte-Véronique, QC, to the outfitting operation on Lac César, QC. When the aircraft was about 30 nm. from the destination, the weather deteriorated. After a few minutes, the pilot could neither continue the flight nor reverse course. For several minutes, the pilot tried to find a safe spot for a water landing, without success. He then decided to set the aircraft down in the trees. The two occupants, who were wearing their seatbelts, were not injured and had no difficulty evacuating the aircraft. The aircraft sustained substantial damage. It struck the trees at low speed and the floats absorbed most of the impact forces. After the collision, the front part of the floats was touching the ground and the wings and empennage were holding the aircraft in anose-downposition. The aircraft sustained major damage to its two floats and damage was also observed on the underside of both wings. The cabin was not significantly deformed and the two forward seats and seatbelts withstood the impact forces; this explains the absence of injuries to the occupants. The occurrence happened at approximately 15:30 EDT. Investigation report A08Q0187.

Total time: 15,813 hrs at Sep-2008.

• C-FYNT Olivier Brossard, St. Basile-le-Grand, QC. Regd 19-Nov-2009.

• C-FYNT ETA Aviation Ltd.,. & César Camp du Nord, St. Basle, QC. Regd 24-Feb-2010. Based La Cesar, QC.

• C-FYNT Air Tamarac Inc.,St. Hyacinthe, QC. Regd 12-Jul-2010. Based Clova, QC. Canx 30-Dec-2010.

• C-FYNT ETA Aviation Ltd., & César Camp du Nord, St. Basile, QC. Regd 30-Dec-2010. Based Clova - CSCT6, QC.

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