| Pilatus
Porter
History
by Markus Herzig |
S/N 656 |
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| VH-SMA
of Snowy Mountains for sale at Essendon
Photo Mike Madden/Tony Arbon col. © 1973 |
F-OCQV
of Roger Galliot in nice new colours
Photo Mike Madden/Tony Arbon col. © 1976 |
#656
today as F-GFDC at Avignon-Pujaut
Photo by Markus Herzig © 2000 |
| S/N: 656 | Built: 1967 | TSN: 16'600 | |||
| Registration | Type | Operator / Owner | From | To | Remarks |
| HB-FDC | PC-6/B1-H2 | Pilatus Flugzeugwerke | 1967-09-28 | 1967-11-21 | Ferry registration |
| VH-SMA | PC-6/B1-H2 | Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority | 1967-10-30 | 1973-01-19 | |
| VH-SMA | PC-6/B1-H2 | Stillwell B.S. | 1973-01-19 | 1973-10-25 | ops in New Caledonia |
| F-OCQV | PC-6/B1-H2 | Air Corail | 1974-05-15 | 1975-11-27 | ops in New Caledonia |
| F-OCQV | PC-6/B1-H2 | Gaillot Roger | 1975-11-27 | 1977-03-16 | |
| F-OCQV | PC-6/B1-H2 | Ohlen Yvan | 1977-03-16 | 1978-12-07 | |
| ZK-PTP | PC-6/B1-H2 | Air Safaris & Services (NZ) Ltd | 1978-12-19 | 1987-03-18 | based at Lake Tekapo |
| F-GFDC | PC-6/B1-H2 | Air Savoie | 1987-03-16 | 1988-03-14 | cvt to B2-H2 |
| F-GFDC | PC-6/B2-H2 | CERP du Languedoc-Mediterranee | 1988-03-14 | Current | "Praloup", new painted 1999 |
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| HB-FDC
at Bahrain on the delivery flight
Photo by Ken Prentice © 6-Oct-67 |
ZK-PTP
of Air Safaris & Services (NZ) Ltd
Photo Collection Peter Lewis © 1980 |
F-GFDC
landing in the snow at Barcelonnette
Photo by Louis Bothy © 13-Jan-08 |
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| With
F-GODZ and G-WGSC at Pujaut
Photo by Simon Basso © 2003 |
Rescued
out of the terrible inundations in Sep'02
Photo by Christian Jovani © 2002 |