1954 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 713, C-GHPG, Metasoft Systems Inc.

1954 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 713, C-GHPG at Delta Heritage Air Park (CAK3), Delta, B.C., Canada on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 13:30 PDT. Transferred from Edo 679-4930 straight floats to fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel at Harbour Air Seaplanes sometime late last week, and ferried from South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) to Delta Heritage Air Park (CAK3) on Tuesday evening, July 16, 2013 by Kevin Maher, President of the Duncan Flying Club, Duncan Airport (DUQ/CAM3), Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C. and owner of the oldest surviving Model 75 biplane, the 1936 Stearman PT-13 Kaydet (Model 75), c/n 75-003, N68492 (CF-KTE reserved) he is currently restoring. The Air Park will the Beaver’s summer base and she will participate in the Duncan Flying Club Homathko/Tsuniah Fly-Out to Tsuniah Lake Lodge Airport (CAF4), Tsuniah Lake Lodge, Tsuniah Lake, B.C. from Friday, July 19 to Monday, July 22, 2013.

1954 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 713, C-GHPG, Metasoft Systems Inc., Vancouver, B.C., Canada, based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, 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 and propeller spinner
• pilot, six passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport
• full-span single-slotted flaps, ailerons droop as flaps are extended
• crew door both sides, cabin door both sides, rear baggage area
• bubble cabin door windows, porthole rear cabin windows
• fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel/Edo 679-4930 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer

History:

• built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
• delivered as L-20A-DH Beaver, s/n 53-7905 to US Army on November 3, 1954
• c/n 713/1446 (dual c/n system consisted of the factory construction number and a number assigned for Beavers specifically produced for USAF/US Army procurement, starting at 1000)
• L-20 No. 447, Command A-4, US Army
• porthole rear cabin windows
• fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel
• redesignated as U-6A-DH Beaver in 1962
• 20th Transportation Company, US Army
• served in West Germany
• MASDC (Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center), Davis-Monthan AFB (DMA/KDMA), Tucson, Arizona, USA
• known as “The Boneyard”, a major USAF desert aircraft and missile storage site
• N9008, further details unknown
• imported in 1979
• C-GHPG, Ted Leroy Trucking Ltd., Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on August 4, 1981
• based at Quamichan Lake, North Cowichan, Vancouver Island, B.C.
• Edo 58-4580 straight floats, ventral tail fin
• propeller spinner sometime in the mid to late 1990s
• Ted Leroy Trucking Ltd. moved to Chemainus, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on March 11, 2003 and cancelled on December 9, 2008
• based at Quamichan Lake
• Edo 679-4930 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• C-GHPG, Metasoft Systems Inc., Vancouver, B.C., Canada on December 12, 2008 
• based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)
• propeller spinner
• bubble cabin door windows, porthole rear cabin windows
• fixed conventional landing gear and tailwheel/Edo 679-4930 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• tt 14,400 hours in January 2012
• active

[Nikon D3100 14.2 megapixel DX-format DSLR Nikon F-mount camera; Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18–55 mm f/3.5–5.6G VR lens with 52-mm UV(C) filter]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, July 2013