1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT. Dockside somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319; Kodak Plus-X Pan (ISO 125/22°) 36-exposure black & white negative film]


© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011





“The whole history of the Canadian North can be divided into two periods—before and after the aeroplane.”
Hugh L. Keenleyside, Deputy Canadian Minister of Mines and Resources, October 1949




Tuesday, April 16, 2013

1964 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 1560, C-GOBC, Seair Seaplanes

Arrival of 1964 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 1560, C-GOBC, Seair Seaplanes at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9), Moray Channel, Richmond, B.C., adjacent to South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 11:26 PST

1964 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 1560, C-GOBC, Seair Seaplanes (Seair Seaplanes Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9), Moray Channel, Richmond, B.C., adjacent to South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)
  • powered by one 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed three-blade Hartzell propeller
  • pilot, seven passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport
  • Edo 679-4930 straight floats, Sealand cabin extension, bubble cabin door windows, bubble rear cabin windows, enlarged rear cabin windows, ventral fin under tail, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
  • built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
  • built, powered by one 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed two-blade Hamilton Standard propeller
  • completed on August 28, 1964
  • delivered as VH-IDU to Hawker de Havilland Australia Pty. Ltd., Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on September 3, 1964
  • fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel
  • VH-IDU, Super Spread Aviation (Leafair Pty. Ltd.), Moorabbin Airport (MBW/YMMB), Moorabbin, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in December 1964
  • badly damaged in accident at Moorabbin Airport (MBW/YMMB) on March 31, 1972
  • stored with engine and wings removed as a hangar queen at Deniliquin Airport (DNQ/YDLQ), Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia for 30 years
  • N159M, BSR LLC, Federal Way, Washington, USA on May 1, 2002 and cancelled on August 24, 2007
  • complete rebuild and refitted with constant-speed three-blade Hartzell propeller by Kal-Air Repair Ltd., Vernon Regional Airport (YVE/CYVK), Vernon, B.C., Canada
  • certificate of airworthiness issued on October 22, 2003
  • imported on August 24, 2007
  • registered to Seair Seaplanes on August 27, 2007
  • active

Moray Channel, Middle Arm of the Fraser River, separates Sea Island from Lulu Island, making up most of Richmond

[Nikon Coolpix L20 point-and-shoot 10 MP digital camera, Nikkor 38–136-mm f/3.1–6.7 lens, s/n 51002451]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, January 2013
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