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De Havilland DHC-6-200

P2-MFS

Year of Manufacture:

Built as:

Engine Installation:

Registration History:

1968

DHC-6-200

Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20

N7670 ► VH-GKR ► P2-GKR ► P2-RDA ► P2-MFS

Reg’n

N7670

N7670

N7670

N7670

N7670

VH-GKR

P2-GKR

P2-GKR

P2-RDA

P2-MFS

Operator [Owner]

de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON

de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON

Cable Commuter Airlines, Ontario, CA “Miss Eileen”

Aero Commuter, Long Beach, CA “Miss Eileen”

Golden West Airlines, Los Angeles, CA

Withdrawn from use & stored at Los Angeles, CA 1971

Ferried via San Francisco 10-May-1972 in basic Golden West c/s with Territory Airlines titles

Territory Airlines, Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Territory Airlines, Goroka “City of Tari”

Talair, Goroka “City of Tari”

Talair, Goroka “City of Tari”

MAF-Mission Aviation Fellowship, Mount Hagen

Change

Roll Out

F/Flight

Delivered

Merged

Renamed

 

 

Reg'd

Re-Reg'd

Renamed

Re-Reg'd

Reg'd

Date

21-Nov-1968

06-Dec-1968

18-Dec-1968

18-Mar-1969

15-Jul-1969

 

 

10-Jul-1972

01-May-1974

May-1975

06-May-1976

Mar-1993

17-Dec-1994 - Collided with mountainside at 6400ft level, near Olsobip, Papua New Guinea. Aircraft was enroute from Tabubil to Selbang in poor weather. There were a total of 28 fatalities – the passenger load was 18 adults, 5 children and 3 infants plus a crew of 2.