1952 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 207, C-GJZQ, The Prospector, Beaukent Developments Inc., Richmond, B.C., Canada and C. Rogers, Vancouver, B.C.; powered by one 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed three-blade Hartzell propeller; pilot, six passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport; built by de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario at Downsview, Ontario; delivered as L-20A-DH Beaver, BuNo 51-16771 US Army on March 15, 1952; redesignated as U-6A-DH Beaver in 1962; #1029, No. 30, 2nd Aviation Command; served in Korea and South Vietnam conflicts; BuNo 51-16771, Chico, based at Firebase Buttons, Song Be, South Vietnam; N65033; imported in 1981; C-GJZQ, Air North Charter & Training Ltd., Whitehorse, NWT cancelled on July 6, 1982; C-GJZQ, Air BC, Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. cancelled on July 22, 1983; C-GJZQ, Kynoc Chief, Waglisla Air, Bella Bella, B.C.; C-GJZQ, Jim Pattison Industries, Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. cancelled on October 17, 1984; C-GJZQ, Waglisla Air, Bella Bella, B.C. cancelled on August 1, 1985; C-GJZQ, Sharp Wings Ltd., Williams Lake, B.C. cancelled on September 23, 1985; C-GJZQ, Waglisla Air, Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. cancelled on November 18, 1986; C-GJZQ, Tyee Airways Ltd., Sechelt, B.C. cancelled on September 22, 1988; C-GJZQ, Waglisla Air, Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. cancelled on November 10, 1995; C-GJZQ, CBE Construction Ltd., Coal Harbour, B.C. on April 3, 1996; C-GJZQ, Seair Services 1990 Ltd., Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. cancelled on September 19, 1996; owners registered since October 22, 2003; fitted with Alaska door and 9-inch nose extension.
Harbour Air Seaplanes hangar, South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. at 11:49 am, Tuesday, December 21, 2010.
© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, December 2010
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