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




Friday, May 3, 2013

1963 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 1514, C-FAXI, Harbour Air

1963 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 1514, C-FAXI, Harbour Air at 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 in late May 1989

1963 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 1514, C-FAXI, Harbour Air (Harbour Air Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9), Moray Channel, Richmond, B.C., adjacent to South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)
  • titled HARBOUR AIR 
  • 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, ventral tail strake

  • built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
  • delivered as N6535D to de Havilland Inc., New York, New York, USA on March 2, 1963 
  • fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel, porthole rear cabin windows
  • N6535D, Cameron Iron Works Inc., Houston, Texas, USA in 1960s
  • Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral tail strake, porthole rear cabin windows, propeller spinner
  • CF-AXI, Bannock Aerospace (Bannock Aerospace Ltd.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada in April 1970
  • Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral tail strake, porthole rear cabin windows
  • CF-AXI, West Coast Air Services (West Coast Air Services Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada in 1970
  • based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9)
  • Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats exchanged with Edo 58-4580 straight floats
  • West Coast Air Services (West Coast Air Services Ltd.) renamed as West Coast Air (West Coast Air Services Ltd.)
  • re-registered as C-FAXI
  • 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-FAXI, Air BC (Air BC Ltd./Subsidiary of Jim Pattison Industries Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on December 1, 1980 and cancelled on August 31, 1983
  • based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9)
  • Edo 58-4580 straight floats, ventral tail strake, porthole rear cabin windows
  • damaged in mid-air collision at 400 feet altitude with 1977 Cessna A185F Skywagon, c/n 185-03368, C-GJTJ, Pisces Aviation Services Ltd., Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada with both landing safely at CFB Comox/Comox Valley Airport (YQQ/CYQQ), Comox, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on February 27, 1983
  • repaired
  • Air BC became a CP Air Commuter regional partner in October 1983 and moved operations from South Terminal to the main terminal of Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)
  • C-FAXI, Harbour Air (Harbour Air Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada in January 1984
  • based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9) 
  • Edo 679-4930 straight floats, bubble cabin door windows, enlarged rear cabin windows, ventral tail strake
  • 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
  • Air BC became an Air Canada Connector regional partner on April 26, 1987
  • ventral tail strake exchanged with seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
  • constant-speed two-blade Hamilton Standard propeller exchanged with constant-speed three-blade Hartzell propeller with propeller spinner
  • Sealand cabin extension by Aeroflite Industries Ltd., South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) in summer 2003
  • seating capacity increased to seven passengers
  • Edo 679-4930 straight floats, Sealand cabin extension, bubble cabin door windows, bubble rear cabin windows, enlarged rear cabin windows, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer, propeller spinner
  • given fleet number “205”
  • active

[1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter; Fujifilm Fujichrome 100 (RD-113) 36-exposure colour slide film]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, May 1989
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