1955 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 825, C-FIFQ, North Pacific Seaplanes

1955 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 825, C-FIFQ, North Pacific Seaplanes at Harbour Air Seaplanes maintenance base (hangar is Building T-018, a Recognized Federal Heritage Building, completed on January 1, 1930), 4670 Cowley Crescent, South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 12:16 PST

1955 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 825, C-FIFQ, North Pacific Seaplanes (North Pacific Seaplanes Ltd.), Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada, based at Seal Cove Water Airport (ZSW/CZSW), Prince Rupert, 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
• pilot, six passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport
• Edo 679-4930 straight floats, bubble cabin door windows, enlarged rear cabin windows, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
• delivered as CF-IFQ to Canadian Forest Products Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada on September 2, 1955
• Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral fin under tail
• CF-IFQ, B.C. Air Lines (B.C. Air Lines Ltd.), Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada
• Airwest Airlines (Airwest Airlines Ltd.), Gulf Air (Gulf Air Aviation Services Ltd.), Haida Airlines (Haida Airlines Ltd.), Island Air (Island Airlines Ltd.), Pacific Coastal Airlines (Pacific Coastal Airlines Ltd.), and West Coast Air (West Coast Air Services Ltd.) purchased by Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. between April 1979 and June 1980, and merged to form Air BC (Air BC Ltd.) on December 1, 1980
• Trans-Provincial Airlines (Trans-Provincial Airlines Ltd.) purchased by Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. but operated separately
• C-FIFQ, Trans-Provincial Airlines (Trans-Provincial Airlines Ltd./Subsidiary of Jim Pattison Industries Ltd.), Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada cancelled on June 2, 1988
• Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• ownership of Trans-Provinicial Airlines by Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. ended in October 1986
• ownership of Air BC by Jim Pattison Industries Ltd. ended on November 28, 1986
• C-FIFQ, Trans-Provincial Airlines (Trans-Provincial Airlines Ltd.), Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada on June 2, 1988 and cancelled on May 13, 1993
• based at Seal Cove Water Airport (ZSW/CZSW)
• Edo 58-4580 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• Trans-Provincial Airlines purchased by Harbour Air Seaplanes (Harbour Air Ltd.) in 1993
• C-FIFQ, Harbour Air Seaplanes (Harbour Air Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on May 13, 1993 and cancelled on February 10, 2004
• based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9), Moray Channel, Richmond, B.C., adjacent to South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) 
• Edo 679-4930 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• C-FIFQ, North Pacific Seaplanes, Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada on February 10, 2004 and cancelled on April 5, 2013
• Harbour Air Seaplane’s northern affiliate
• North Pacific Seaplanes purchased by Inland Air (Inland Air Charters Ltd.), Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada on April 1, 2013
• registered to Harbour Air Seaplanes on April 5, 2013
• based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9)
• 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 photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, January 2013