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DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 200
N30EA
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Series 200

N66191 • SE-KOK

N30EA

• Registration • Activity and details of Owner/Operator and other historical information

• N66191 de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON. Rolled out 27-Nov-1968. First flight 13-Dec-1968.

• N66191 Aero Commuter, Long Beach, CA. Delivered 27-Dec-1968.

• N66191 Merged to become Golden West Airlines, Van Nuys, CA. Regd Jul-1969.

• N66191 Lakeland Commuter, Rice Lake, WI. Regd 16-Jan-1983.

• N66191 Jack Wall A/C Sales, Memphis, TN. Regd 18-Apr-1985.

• N66191 Leased to California Air Charter, Burbank, CA. Regd Apr-1985.

• N66191 Name changed to Ameriflight.

• N66191 Returned to Jack Wall A/C Sales, Memphis, TN. Regd date unknown.

• N66191 Pal Air International, Tonopah, NV. Regd 12-Feb-1990.

• SE-KOK Skydive Airlines, Johanneshov, Sweden. Regd 08-Apr-1990.

• N30EA Alberta Aircraft Leasing, Las Vegas, NV., 12-May-1998.Operated by Skydive Chicago.

• N30EA Leased to Eagle Air Transport, Ottawa, IL. Regd May-1998. Remained with Skydive Chicago.

Airworthiness date 10-Jun-1998.

• N30EA Eagle Air Transport, Ottawa, IL. Regd 25-May-1999. Remained with Skydive Chicago.

Flew 13-Feb-2012 Sebastian, FL - Providenciales, Turks & Caicos. Skydive Chicago's N30EA en route to the Puerto Rico Freefall Festival held at Arecibo, PR.

Note: Seen at Aricibo, PR with Skydive Chicago marks 18-Dec-2012 and 15-Feb-2013, for the XtremeDivers boogie which ran between 13/17-Feb-2013.

Accident Sebastian Municipal Airport, FL. 09-Feb-2015 Two de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, N30EA and N70EA were both parked right next to each other, wing-tip to wing-tip at Sebastian Municipal Airport, Florida. N30AE was parked on the right side of N70AE.

Both aircraft were planning to conduct a re-positioning flight that was destined for the Exuma International Airport, Bahamas.

The pilot of N30AE stated that she had just started the engines when she advanced the throttles (one at a time) to bring the generators on-line. At that moment, the airplane began to move forward. She said she tried to apply the brakes, but they were not working and she was unable to move the tiller, which was positioned all the way to the left. The pilot was unable to stop the airplane and it collided with N70AE.

The pilot of N70AE said that he had not started the engines yet when N30AE struck his airplane.

The repairs were completed on site in Sebastian in a joint project between Wipaire Inc., and Regent Aircraft Services of Calgary.

Ferried. 18-Jun-2015 Sebastian, FL - Dalton, GA - Ottawa-Skydive Chicago, IL.

• Current •

N66191 of Aero Commuter commuting at LAX.
Photo: Unknown photographer © February 1969 - Michael J. Ody Collection
N66191 when with Golden West.
Photo: Jay Sherlock © November 1978 - Michael J. Ody Collection
N66191 after colour switch.
Photo: Jay Sherlock © November 1978
N66191 noted at Calgary - CYYC, for Lakeland Airlines.
Photo: Anthony J. Hickey © January 1983 - Michael J. Ody Collection
N66191 at ONT - Ontario, California.
Photo: Henry Tenby © 14 February 1988 - Michael J. Ody Collection
SE-KOK of SKYDIVE Airlines - Stockholm Fallskärmsklubb.
Photo: Unknown photographer © Date unknown - John Mounce Collection - Aird Archives
SE-KOK at Toronto - CYYZ, Ontario.
Photo: Michael J. Ody © 08 April 1990
SE-KOK back at Toronto a few years later.
Photo: Michael J. Ody © May 1998
N30EA alights after a flight.
Photo: Unknown photographer © date unknown - Michael J. Ody Collection
N30EA in skydivechicago later colours.
Photo: Hombrej © 16 February 2013
N30EA at X27 - Sebastian Municipal Airport, Florida.
Photo: Kenneth I. Swartz © 03 January 2024 - Aird Archives