1961 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 1488, C-GIYV, Tyax Air Services Ltd., Gold Bridge, B.C., Canada, based at Gold Bridge, B.C.; powered by one 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-39 Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed two-blade Hamilton Standard propeller; floats; pilot, six passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) bushplane; built by de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario at Downsview, Ontario; delivered as Beaver AL Mk. I, XP823, Army Air Corps, British Army on September 15, 1961; first flight on November 21, 1961; to AAC on Deccember 6, 1961; declared surplus on May 5, 1987; C-GIYV, Richard J. Churchill, Edmonton, Alberta on August 24, 1988; C-GIYV, Ward Wamboldt, Edmonton, Alberta on July 6, 1990; C-GIYV, Coast Western Airlines Ltd., Garden Bay, B.C. on August 22, 1990; C-GIYV, Richard J. Churchill, Edmonton, Alberta on June 4, 1991, leased until November 30, 1991; owner registered since December 2, 1994.
Near the Harbour Air Seaplanes hangar, South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. at 12:14 pm, Friday, June 17, 2011.
© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, June 2011
[Nikon Coolpix L20, s/n 51002451, point-and-shoot digital camera]
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