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




Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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

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