REPUBLIC RC-3 SEABEE # 87

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AIRCRAFT DATA

Manufacturer: Republic Aviation Corporation; Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, USA.
Model: RC-3 Seabee
Type Certificate No: A-769
Serial Number: 87
Manufacturing Date: 1946-10-??
Engine: Franklin 6A8-215-B8F (215 HP at 2500 RPM)
Remarks:  
 
Reg. No. Date Remarks
CF-DJW 1946-04-08 Date of Allotment to Canadian Civil Aircraft Register.
Reserved for Leavens Bros. Air Services, Ltd.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1946-09-?? Manufacturing Date.
1946-09-?? Test flight.
1946-10-08 Officially delivered from Republic Aviation Corporation to Leavens Bros. Air Services, Ltd.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1946-10-08 Date of Deletion of Reservation.
1946-10-12 Registered on Canadian Civil Aircraft Register.
????-??-?? C of R issued to:
Dr. Daniel Gurth O'Brien; Grande Prairie, Alberta.
1953-08-14 Lake Saskatoon, 10 miles west of Grande Prairie, Alberta:
Aircraft overturned on at Lake Saskatoon. Pilot Jens Dalen was seriously injured. Owner, Dr. Gurth D. O'Brien went missing. The body of Dr. O'Brien (13 April 1908 - 14 August 1953) was recovered from the lake on August 16, 1953. [Canadian CAR File # 5002-387].
  1953-10-07 Cancelled from Canadian Civil Aircraft Register.
  Sources: RAC Seabee Delivery List.
www.historiccar.ca.
Michael Ody.
Terry Judge.
Jim Tyerman.
LAC Microfilm reel # T-7895.

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