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Serial #: KA984 Construction #: 885 Civil Registration: N66313 Model: Mk. 25 Name: Miss Marta Status: Scrapped Last info: 1951 |
History: 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. Frédéric Hubschwerlen. Photo Source(s): Unknown. Eric Dumigan Photography, http://www.airic.ca, 2004 |
