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C-GUDK on wheels.

Photo: John Kimberley © November 1977 - Aird Archives

C-GUDK in evocative river scene.

Photo: via Jim Bristowe © Brian Byl Collection - Aird Archives

C-GUDK at Whitehorse, Yukon.

Photo: John Kimberley © May 1979 - Aird Archives

C-GUDK at Fort Nelson when with Liard Air.

Photo: Brian Stockall © January 1984 - Aird Archives

C-GUDK high and dry.

Photo: Glen Etchells © Date unknown - Aird Archives

C-GUDK of Liard Air at Fort Nelson.

Photo: Gary Vincent © 11 April 1986 - Aird Archives

Photo: Gary Vincent © May 1986 - Aird Archives

C-GUDK at Muncho Lake, B.C., on the Alaska Highway.

Photo: Kevin Wiggins © 11 August 2004 - Aird Archives

53-7900 at Coleman Barracks AAF, Germany.

Photo: Unknown photographer © 29 May 1971 - Andy Anderson Collection - NA3T (MIL26073)

53-7900 at Pirmasens AAF, Germany.

Photo: Robin A. Walker © 14 June 1970 - Aird Archives

53-7900 at London / Gatwick - EGKK, United Kingdom,

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C-GUDK

• 53-7900 US Army # 1441. L-20 No: 442. Command A-4. Delivered 25-Oct-1954. Built as L-20A and re-designated U-6A in 1962.

• 53-7900 For sale Coleman Barracks, Mannheim – Sandhofen, Germany. Feb Seen 28-Aug-1972.

Total time: 5,122 hours.

• No Regn Purchased by B–M Aviation Ltd., (Laurentian Air Services) Lachute, QC, 01-Apr-1973. Regd Oct-1975.

• C-GUDK Highfield Corp., Ltd., Calgary, AB. Regd 14-Oct-1975.

• C-GUDK Smithers Air Services (1980) Ltd., Smithers, BC. Regd Circa 1979. Canx 23-Jun-1982.

• C-GUDK Liard Air Services Ltd., Fort Nelson, BC. Regd 27-Jun-1983. Lost in hangar fire. Jan-2011.

Incident: Muncho Lake/Mile 462 Seaplane Base, BC. Canada. 17-Jan-2011. Three aircraft were destroyed in a hangar fire. A generator in the hangar caught fire. Without power the operator was not able to open the hangar door. Aircraft destroyed were: C-GUGE Cessna A185F, C-GUDK DHC-2 Beaver Mk 1, C-GNNP DHC-3T Otter.

• C-GUDK Canx and deleted 04-Jan-2012.

• Destroyed by fire •