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N3129S not much hope.
Photo: Elwood Schapansky © Date unknown - via Sid Siko
N49443 at Vancouver.
Photo: Glen Etchells © June 1983
N37741 at Renton, same neat colours.
Photo: John Kimberley © July 1980
C-GMSX at YVR in HYACK AIR titles, at end of lease.
Photo: Kenneth I. Swartz © 23 July 1980
N37741 on the Renton - KRTN ramp.
Photo: Unknown photographer © Summer 1979 - Ruben Husberg Collecton
N37741 getting some work done at Renton.
Photo: Unknown photographer © April 1979 - Aird Archives
N37741 off duty.
Photo: Peter Keating © August 1978 - Ian MacFarlane Collection - Aird Archives
N37741 with Dean Carroll, up in Alaska.
Photo: Unknown photographer © 22 June 1975 - Aird Archives
51-16801 with unusal code markings.
Photo: Peter Keating © Unknown date -- Aird Archives - aflyinghistory.com
Photo: Peter Keating © - Erik Frikke Collection (tinted by Neil Aird)

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51-16801 • N37441 • C-GMSX • N49443

N3129S

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• 51-16801 US Army #1083. L-20A No: 84. Command A-2. Delivered 30-May-1952. Built as L-20A and Re-designated U-6A in 1962.

• 51-16801 For sale @ Coleman Barracks, Mannheim – Sandhofen, Germany. Seen 28-Aug-1972.

Note: Total time 4,900 hours.

• No Regn Bought by B-M Aviation Ltd., Lachute, QC. 01-Apr-1973. (One of the 64 US Army U-6As purchased in Germany in March 1973 by Laurentian Air Services and sold off individually by B-M. Aviation from a bonded compound at Lachute, QC).

• N37741 Kenmore Air Harbour, Seattle, WA.

• N37741 Dean Carroll, Anchorage, AK. Purchased in an “as is” condition.

• N37741 Alaska Travel Air Inc., Anchorage, AK. Circa 1975 – 1978.

Accident. Whittier, AK. 13-Sep-1978. Aircraft flew into blind canyon in adverse weather conditions and crashed into ground in controlled flight. Aircraft substantially damaged. Pilot and five passengers killed. ANC78FA078.

• N37741 Harold J. Hanson, Seattle, WA. Regd Dec-1978.

Entries preceded by date are from Transport of Canada Archive data.

14-Mar-1979 Weight & Balance completed for s/n 269 N37741 by Harold J. Hansen, Seattle, WA.

21-Jul-1980 Lease Agreement; Harold J. Hansen, Seattle, WA., to Hyack Air Ltd., New Westminster, BC,  21-Jul-1980 - open-ended.

24-Jul-1980 Harold Hansen requests to FAA to cancel registration of N37741.

25-Jul-1980 Allotment of registration C-GMSX to DHC-2 s/n 269 for Hyack Air Ltd., BC.

25-Jul-1980 Application for Certificate of Registration by Hyack Air Ltd.

• C-GMSX Imported to Canada & regd 25-Jul-1980.

25-Jul-1980 Application for Certificate of Registration by Hyack Air Ltd.

25-Jul-1980 Provisional Certificate of Registration and Certificate of Airworthiness for test flights within 25 mile radius of Vancouver International Airport.

• C-GMSX Leased to Hyack Air Ltd., New Westminster, BC.

28-Jul-1980 Certificate of Airworthiness issued.

28-Jul-1980 Certificate of Registration issued to Hyack Air Ltd., New Westminster, BC (under lease from Harold J. Jansen).

03-Jun-1981 Certificate of Transfer of Ownership; Hyack Air Ltd., to Burrard Air Ltd.

03-Jun-1981 Lease Agreement; Harold Hansen to Burrard Air Ltd., 12 months.

03-Jun-1981 Application for Certificate of Registration by Burrard Air.

05-Jun-1981 Certificate of Registration issued to Burrard Air Ltd., Port Moody, BC. (under lease from Harold J. Hansen).

• C-GMSX Burrard Air Ltd., Port Moody, BC. Leased 1981.

03-Jun-1982 Lease to Burrard Air expired.

25-Jun-1982 Burrard Air advises Department of Transport that C-GMSX to be returned to USA (Alaska) as N49443.

02-Jul-1982 Cancelled CCAR.

• C-GMSX. Canx on export 07-Jul-1982.

Total Hours since new as recorded by Department of Transport in Canada.

25-Jul-1980   5,973 hours.

08-Jul-1981   6,216 hours.

• N49443 Jul-1982 Details unknown.

Note Shawano Conversion in 1983.

• N3129S Alaska North Flying Service. Anchorage, AK. Date unknown.

• N3129S Peter B. Iverson, Eric H. Akola, Robert J. Forkas, Robert H. Franz & Helmer Directional Drilling Inc., Anchorage, AK. Regd 05-May-1983.

Accident. Iliamna, AK. 20-Aug-1983. During a low level caribou spotting flight, the aircraft got into a downdraft (300ft) and collided with hilly terrain. Pilot and one passenger sustained serious injury. Three passengers received minor injuries. ANC83LA151.

• N3129S Canx “administratively” 15-May-1984.

• Presume scrapped •

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