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De Havilland DHC-6-300
8Q-MBC
Year of Manufacture:
Built as:
Engine Installation:
Registration History:
1969
DHC-6-300
Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27
N661MA ► HK-3219X ► N661MA ► H4-SIB ► (HB-LUN) ► 8Q-MBC
Reg’n
N661MA
N661MA
N661MA
N661MA
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N661MA
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HK-3219X
N661MA
H4-SIB
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HB-LUN
8Q-MBC
8Q-MBC
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Operator [Owner]
de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON
de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON
MAC-Miami Aviation Corporation, Opa-locka, FL [American National Bank of Jacksonville]
ARAMCO-Arabian American Oil Company, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia [MAC-Miami Aviation Corporation]
Departed Downsview, ON 30-Oct-1969 and arrived Dhahran, Saudi Arabia 07-Nov-1969 on delivery
MAC-Miami Aviation Corporation, Opa-locka, FL
Via Tours - Prestwick - Reykjavík 17-Oct-1985 returning to USA
Helicol-Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia, Bogota
MAC-Miami Aviation Corporation, Opa-locka, FL
Solomon Airlines, Honiara
Withdrawn from use at Honiara Nov-2001 - fuselage only noted there late 2004
Fuselage, wings & parts shipped to Switzerland for rebuilding by Altenrhein Aviation in mid-2007
Altenrhein Aviation, Altenrhein-Saint Gallen
Maldivian Air Taxi, Male [Seaplane Holdings A/S, Vedbaek, Denmark]
Trans Maldivian Airways, Male
Collided with water bungalow on t/o from Finolhu 13-Nov-2021; repairable
Change
Roll Out
F/Flight
Delivered
Delivered
Returned
Leased
Returned
Reg'd
Not Used
Reg'd
Merged
Date
12-Sep-1969
27-Sep-1969
30-Oct-1969
30-Oct-1969
22-Oct-1985
Feb-1986
09-Aug-1987
Sep-1987
2009
07-Jan-2010
15-Aug-2013
N661MA DHC-6-300 ARAMCO Downsview, ON Sep-1969 Sheldon D. Benner Photo ©
N661MA DHC-6-300 ARAMCO Opa-locka, FL Apr-1981 Nigel Chalcraft Photo ©
H4-SIB DHC-6-300 Solomon Airlines Cairns, QLD 1993 Paul Howard Photo ©
H4-SIB DHC-6-300 Solomon Airlines Cairns, QLD Date/Photographer Unknown
H4-SIB DHC-6-300 Solomon Airlines Honiara 2007 Photographer Unknown
H4-SIB DHC-6-300 Solomon Airlines Honiara 2007 Photographer Unknown
H4-SIB DHC-6-300 Altenrhein Aviation Altenrhein/Saint Gallen Date/Photographer Unknown
HB-LUN DHC-6-300 Altenrhein Aviation Altenrhein/Saint Gallen Apr-2009 Derek Heley Photo ©
8Q-MBC DHC-6-300 Maldivian Air Taxi Altenrhein/Saint Gallen Jan-2010 Erich Kunz Photo ©
8Q-MBC DHC-6-300 Maldivian Air Taxi Meedhupparu Mar-2014 Darren Wilson Photo ©
8Q-MBC DHC-6-300 Maldivian Air Taxi Meedhupparu Sep-2011 Darren Wilson Photo ©
8Q-MBC DHC-6-300 Trans Maldivian Meedhupparu Sep-2016 Darren Wilson Photo ©
8Q-MBC DHC-6-300 Trans Maldivian Kuredu Dec-2018 Stephen Rendle Photo ©