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C-GFDI at Ganges, Saltspring Island.
Photo: Mark Alan Perry © 31 May 2018 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI at CXH - Coal Harbour, Vancouver.
Photos: Lenn Bayliss © 07 August 2017 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI working at Nanaimo.
Photos: Jon Beekman © 07 May 2017 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI in smart Harbour Air livery, at CAM9.
Photo: John W. Olafson © 11 June 2016 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI at a log boom inspection, when with Baxter.
Photo: Dan Floyd © 27 October 2005 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI in Baxter titles at Nanaimo.
Photos: Neil Aird © 15 October 2002 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI visits Sechelt, on the mainland.
Photos: Neil Aird © 16 October 2002 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI in Baxter titles at Nanaimo.
Photo: Neil Aird © May 2001 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI backlit, arrives at Vancouver's Coal Harbour - CXH.
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Photo: Ron Kosys © 29 May 2001 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI awaits clients at CXH - Coal Harbour.
Photo: Ab Gobets © 29 June 1998 - via Coert Munk - Aird Archives
Photo: Bruce W. Gowans © 12 March 1998 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI without titles, at the Tyee Spit, Campbell River.
Photos: Bruce W. Gowans © July 1986 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI at Campbell River with G. W. COX & SONS LOGGING LTD.
Photo: Elwood White © Date unknown - Aird Archives
C-GFDI at a rainy Campbell River.
Photo: Michael J. Ody © June 1981 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI minus important part at Vancouver.
Photo: Kenneth I. Swartz © 05 January 1980 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI loading up at Campbell River.
Photo: John Kimberley © August 1979 - Aird Archives
C-GFDI in bare metal.
Photo: Sheldon D. Benner © September 1977 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives

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• 53-2810 US Army #1353. L-20 No: 354. Command A-4. Delivered 09-Feb-1954. Built as L-20A and re-designated U-6A in 1962.

• 53-2810 Stored at MASDC., Davis Monthan AFB., AZ. 14-Feb-1972 to 26-Feb-1976. PCN (Product Control Number) HS101. Declared excess on 04-Oct-1974.

Note: Purchased by Airex at the Davis Monthan auction sale on 29-Jan-1976 for US$24,000. Total time 6,599.7 hrs. Engine 7,204.7 hrs. Sold as providing “a reasonable potential for normal certification”. Comment at sale included: right door ding and leaking tip tank. (The term “ding” believed to be a technological term for “large dent”).

• C-GFDI Imported to Canada and regd 26-Feb-1976.

• C-GFDI Airex Prospecting, Lac du Bonnet, MB. Regd Jun-1976.

• C-GFDI G. W. Cox & Sons Logging, Campbell River, BC. Regd 30-Jul-1979. Canx 16-Dec-1996.

• C-GFDI Baxter Aviation Ltd., Nanaimo, BC. Regd 16-Dec-1996.

• C-GFDI West Coast Air Ltd., Richmond, BC. Regd 17-May-2007. Canx 09-May-2008. Regd 21 & 30-May-2008. Canx 21-May-2010. Regd 04-Jun-2010, Canx 11-May-2012.

• C-GFDI Harbour Air, Richmond, BC. Regd 15-May-2012. f/n 224.

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