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




Thursday, April 11, 2013

1978 Cessna A185F Skywagon II, c/n 185-03482, C-GZSH, Harbour Air Seaplanes

At 11:17 PST

1978 Cessna A185F Skywagon II, c/n 185-03482, C-GZSH, Harbour Air Seaplanes at Vancouver Harbour Water Airport (CXH/CYHC), Coal Harbour, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, B.C., Canada on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 11:22 PST

1978 Cessna A185F Skywagon II, c/n 185-03482, C-GZSH, Harbour Air Seaplanes (Harbour Air 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)
  • titled HARBOUR AIR
  • powered by one 300-hp Teledyne Continental IO-550-D9 fuel-injected six-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, air-cooled piston engine with constant-speed three-blade McCauley propeller
  • pilot, five passengers, utility transport
  • Edo 628-2960 straight floats, ventral fin under tail 
  • built by Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita, Kansas, USA at Pawnee Plant, Wichita, Kansas
  • built, powered by one 300-hp Teledyne Continental IO-520-D fuel-injected six-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, air-cooled piston engine with constant-speed two-blade McCauley propeller 
  • C-GZSH, Duncan Helio Flight Services Ltd., Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada cancelled on September 12, 1983 
  • based at Quamichan Lake, North Cowichan, Vancouver Island, B.C.
  • registered to Harbour Air on April 26, 1984
  • active

[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, March 2013

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