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Serial #: KA984 Construction #: 885 Civil Registration: N66313 |
Model: Mk. 25 Name: Miss Marta Status: Scrapped Last info: 1951 |
Built by de Havilland Aircraft Co, Canada, Toronto, March 1945.
Delivered to Royal Canadian Air Force as KA984.
- BOC: March 29, 1945.
- SOC: June 8, 1948.
- Accepted by Eastern Air Command, Halifax, N.S.
- Placed in storage.
- Dispatched to Saguerbey, Quebec, May 1, 1946.
- Returned to Dartmouth, Aug. 9, 1946.
- Returned to storage.
- Turned over to War Asstes Corp.
-- Total airframe time, 92 hours.
Donald McVicar/World Wide Aviation Agencies and Sales, Montreal , Quebec, Mid-1948.
- Acquired for $1,500.00CAN.
- Ferried to Montreal, July 2, 1948.
Jessie Stallings, Nashville, TN, 1948.
- Registered as N66313.
- Fitted with bomb bay fuel tank.
- Flown as #81/"Miss Marta" in 1948 Bendix race in maroon & white scheme.
-- Finished in 5th place.
Jimmy Warren, Nashville, TN, 19??.
- Stallings delivered plane to Birmingham, AL.
- Deal fell through.
Jessie Stallings, Nashville, TN, 19??.
- Stored/parked, Birmingham, AL.
Mark Hurd Mapping Co., Minneapolis, MN, June 12, 1951.
- Modified by Southern Airways, Birmingham, AL, for aerial mapping operations.
- Damaged in take-off accident during test flight, June 1951.
-- Flown by Raymound Miller.
-- Ground looped, damaging starboard landing gear leg.
- Repaired and ferried to Goleta, CA by Marvin Dunlavy.
-- Heavily Damaged in landing accident, El Paso, TX, Oct. 1951.
-- Both main gear legs torn off, one engine torn from mounting.
- Aircraft stripped and abandoned.
Registration cancelled, Mar. 14, 1956.
Fate unknown, presumed scrapped.
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Source(s): Norman Malayney, Journal, American Aviation Historical Society, Fall 1994. Fr�d�ric Hubschwerlen. |
Photo Source(s): Unknown. Eric Dumigan Photography, http://www.airic.ca, 2004 |
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