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, July 18, 2013

1954 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 713, C-GHPG, Metasoft Systems Inc.

1954 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 713, C-GHPG at Delta Heritage Air Park (CAK3), Delta, B.C., Canada on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 13:30 PDT. Transferred from Edo 679-4930 straight floats to fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel at Harbour Air Seaplanes sometime late last week, and ferried from South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) to Delta Heritage Air Park (CAK3) on Tuesday evening, July 16, 2013 by Kevin Maher, President of the Duncan Flying Club, Duncan Airport (DUQ/CAM3), Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C. and owner of the oldest surviving Model 75 biplane, the 1936 Stearman PT-13 Kaydet (Model 75), c/n 75-003, N68492 (CF-KTE reserved) he is currently restoring. The Air Park will the Beaver’s summer base and she will participate in the Duncan Flying Club Homathko/Tsuniah Fly-Out to Tsuniah Lake Lodge Airport (CAF4), Tsuniah Lake Lodge, Tsuniah Lake, B.C. from Friday, July 19 to Monday, July 22, 2013.






1954 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 713, C-GHPG, Metasoft Systems Inc., Vancouver, B.C., Canada, based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.
  • 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 and propeller spinner
  • pilot, six passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport
  • full-span single-slotted flaps, ailerons droop as flaps are extended
  • crew door both sides, cabin door both sides, rear baggage area
  • bubble cabin door windows, porthole rear cabin windows
  • fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel/Edo 679-4930 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
History:
  • built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
  • delivered as L-20A-DH Beaver, s/n 53-7905 to US Army on November 3, 1954
  • c/n 713/1446 (dual c/n system consisted of the factory construction number and a number assigned for Beavers specifically produced for USAF/US Army procurement, starting at 1000)
  • L-20 No. 447, Command A-4, US Army
  • porthole rear cabin windows
  • fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel
  • redesignated as U-6A-DH Beaver in 1962
  • 20th Transportation Company, US Army
  • served in West Germany
  • MASDC (Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center), Davis-Monthan AFB (DMA/KDMA), Tucson, Arizona, USA
  • known as “The Boneyard”, a major USAF desert aircraft and missile storage site
  • N9008, further details unknown
  • imported in 1979
  • C-GHPG, Ted Leroy Trucking Ltd., Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on August 4, 1981
  • based at Quamichan Lake, North Cowichan, Vancouver Island, B.C.
  • Edo 58-4580 straight floats, ventral tail fin
  • propeller spinner sometime in the mid to late 1990s
  • Ted Leroy Trucking Ltd. moved to Chemainus, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on March 11, 2003 and cancelled on December 9, 2008
  • based at Quamichan Lake
  • Edo 679-4930 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
  • C-GHPG, Metasoft Systems Inc., Vancouver, B.C., Canada on December 12, 2008 
  • based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)
  • propeller spinner
  • bubble cabin door windows, porthole rear cabin windows
  • fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel/Edo 679-4930 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
  • tt 14,400 hours in January 2012
  • active

[Nikon D3100 14.2 megapixel DX-format DSLR Nikon F-mount camera; Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18–55 mm f/3.5–5.6G VR lens with 52-mm UV(C) filter]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, July 2013

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