1959 de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbine Otter, c/n 339, C-FHAX, “313”, Harbour Air Seaplanes

1959 de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbine Otter, c/n 339, C-FHAX, “313”, Harbour Air Seaplanes at docks of Harbour Air Seaplanes Passenger Terminal and Flying Beaver Bar & Grill, Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9), Moray Channel, Richmond, B.C., adjacent to South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 11:28 PST

1959 de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbine Otter, c/n 339, C-FHAX, “313”, Harbour Air Seaplanes (Harbour Air Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at Vancouver Harbour Water Airport (CXH/CYHC), Coal Harbour, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, B.C.

• titled HARBOUR AIR in new colour scheme
• powered by one 750-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 turboprop engine with constant-speed, full-feathering reversible-pitch, three-blade Hartzell propeller
• pilot, 14 passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport
• Edo 7490 straight floats, Vazar bubble scenic cabin windows, bubble rear cabin windows, ventral fin under tail
• built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
• built as DHC-3 Otter, powered by one 600-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-S1H1-G Wasp supercharged nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed three-blade Hamilton Standard Hydromatic propeller
• delivered as U-1A-DH Otter, s/n 58-1720 to US Army on November 6, 1959
• fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel
• N41755, Woods Air Service (Woods Air Service Inc.), Palmer, Alaska, USA
• based at Palmer Municipal Airport (PAQ/PAAQ), Palmer, Alaska
• fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel
• certificate of airworthiness issued on March 29, 1974
• accident with substantial damage caused by an inflight fire in the engine’s accessory drive assembly and the rough uneven forced landing, on a domestic non-scheduled passenger flight, pilot and one passenger, no injuries nor fatalities, en route between Nikolai Airport (NIB/PAFS), Nikolai, Alaska and Silvertip Lodge, Soldotna, Alaska, occured near McGrath, Alaska, USA on July 22, 1992 at 15:30 AKDT (Alaska Daylight Time)
• tt 10,587 hours
• stored outside at Palmer Municipal Airport (PAQ/PAAQ) since recovery from accident
• sold to Harbour Air Seaplanes in November 2005
• N-registration cancelled on January 24, 2006
• imported in 2006
• trucked from Palmer Municipal Airport (PAQ/PAAQ) to South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)
• rebuilt and Vazar turbine conversion by Aeroflite Industries Ltd., South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) in winter 2005–2006
• registered to Harbour Air Seaplanes on January 25, 2006
• 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