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De Havilland DHC-6-300

8Q-MBD

Year of Manufacture:

Built as:

Engine Installation:

Registration History:

1968

DHC-6-300

Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27

N8339 ► VH-TGI ► (N616BA) ► HB-LSY ► SX-BVP ► D-IBVP ► 8Q-MBD

Reg’n

N8339

N8339

N8339

VH-TGI

VH-TGI

VH-TGI

VH-TGI

VH-TGI

VH-TGI

N616BA

HB-LSY

HB-LSY

HB-LSY

HB-LSY

SX-BVP

D-IBVP

8Q-MBD

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8Q-MBD

8Q-MBD

Operator [Owner]

de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON

de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON

Air Capital International, Augusta, KS

Trans Australia Airlines, Melbourne, VIC

Trans Australia Airlines PNG “Bulolo”

Last service; Goroka-Port Moresby 03-Jul-1973

Flew Port Moresby - Cairns, QLD - Mackay, QLD – Rockhampton, QLD – Brisbane, QLD 07/09-Jul-1973

Trans Australia Airlines, Melbourne, VIC “George Grey”

Bush Pilots Airways, Cairns, QLD

Australian Airlines, Melbourne, VIC

Operated with Australian Regional titles

Sunstate Airlines, Brisbane, QLD

Adam Schmid, Hamilton, VIC

Painted as N616BA at Brisbane 16-Oct-1998, but reverted back to VH-TGI by 20-Oct-1998

Departed Brisbane 20-Oct-1998 as VH-TGI and arrived Malta 28-Oct-1998 for overhaul by NCA

Topscore Management, Geneva

Test flown ex-Malta 09-Feb-1999 following overhaul and repaint into Benavia c/s and Air Algerie titles

Benavia Special Air Operations, Geneva

Topscore Management, Geneva

Air Sea Lines, Gouvia-Corfu [Pegasus Aviation]

Air Sea Lines, Gouvia-Corfu [Pegasus Aviation]

Ferried to Altenrhein Apr-2009 for maintenance; Air Sea Lines ceased operations 01-Jul-2009

Withdrawn from use at Altenrhein; noted there through mid-2010

Seaplane Holdings A/S, Vedbaek, Denmark

Maldivian Air Taxi, Male [Seaplane Holdings A/S, Vedbaek, Denmark]

Via Muscat 06-Sep-2010 on delivery to Maldives

Maldivian Air Taxi, Male

Trans Maldivian Airways, Male

Change

Roll Out

F/Flight

Delivered

Delivered

Transfer

 

 

Transfer

Sold

Merged

 

Merged

Reg'd

 

 

Reg'd

 

Transfer

Transfer

Delivered

Reg'd

 

 

Reg'd

Transfer

Reg’d

Reg’d

Date

Jun-1970

Jul-1970

10-Jul-1970

05-Aug-1970

27-Aug-1970

 

 

20-Sep-1973

14-Nov-1980

30-Apr-1988

 

01-Oct-1993

16-Oct-1998

 

 

15-Dec-1998

 

Feb-1999

30-Jan-2002

Oct-2004

03-Feb-2005

 

 

26-Aug-2010

28-Sep-2010

07-Jul-2021

15-Aug-2013