1946 Fairchild F-11-2 Husky, c/n 8, CF-SAQ, Island Airlines

1946 Fairchild F-11-2 Husky, c/n 8, CF-SAQ, Island Airlines, Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada, based at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3), Tyee Spit, Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C.; powered by one 550-hp Alvis Leonides 503/8 supercharged nine-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed three-blade propeller; floats; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), ten passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) bushplane; freight-loading door on each side, rear-loading cargo door/ramp; built by Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. (Canada), Longueuil, Québec; built as F-11-1 Husky, powered by one 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine with variable-pitch two-blade Hamilton Standard propeller; CF-SAQ, Air Ambulance Service, Department of Public Health, Government of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan in 1947; CF-SAQ, Austin Airways, Timmins, Ontario; CF-SAQ, Parsons Airways Northern Ltd., Flin Flon, Manitoba in late 1960s(?); nicknamed “Sad And Queer”; engine conversion by KCR Industries, Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. in 1966 or 1967(?); design rights acquired by Industrial Wings Ltd., subsidiary of Harrison Airways, Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., in 1970; CF-SAQ, West Coast Air Services Ltd., Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.; CF-SAQ, Island Airlines, Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C. on April 18, 1974, cancelled on June 17, 2001(?); apparently crashed in Strait of Georgia (according to one source); Island Airlines merged with Airwest Airlines, Gulf-Air Aviation, Haida Airlines, and West Coast Air Services Ltd. to form Air BC on December 1, 1980; one of three Huskys owned and operated by Island Airlines (one of the others was CF-EIR); one of only 12 ever built, of which six had their engines upgraded (F-11-1 Husky prototype, CF-BQC, c/n 1; CF-EIL/C-GCYV, c/n 2; CF-EIM-X/CF-EIM, c/n 3; CF-SAQ, c/n 8; CF-MAN, c/n 9; CF-EIR, c/n 12); six F-11-1 Huskys were not converted (CF-EIO, c/n 5; CF-EIP, c/n 6; CF-MAO, c/n 10; CF-BSH; CF-EIQ; CF-EIS).

Taxiing to a floating dock somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C. sometime in the mid-1970s.

Seen from a right side window, Knight Inlet, B.C. sometime in the mid-1970s. 

[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]

© Copyright photographs by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1974 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011