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, March 8, 2012

1956 de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbine Otter, c/n 106, N707KA, Captain Greg Munro, Kenmore Air

1956 de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbine Otter, c/n 106, N707KA, Captain Greg MunroKenmore Air (Kenmore Air Harbor Inc.), Lake Washington, Kenmore, Washington, USA, based at Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base (LKE), Lake Union, Seattle, Washington; powered by one 750-hp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-135 turboprop engine with constant-speed, full-feathering reversible-pitch, three-blade Hartzell propeller; Edo 7490 floats; pilot, ten passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport; built by de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Downsview, Ontario; built as DHC-3 Otter, powered by one 600-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-S1H1-G Wasp supercharged nine-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed three-blade Hamilton Standard Hydromatic propeller; Vazar turbine conversion.

Concourse A, Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base (LKE), Lake Union, Seattle, Washington on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 1:17 pm.


At 1:18 pm.

Kenmore Air parking lot, billboard, and terminal office at Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base (LKE), Lake Union, Seattle, Washington. 

At 1:19 pm.


[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, December 2011

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