1948 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 17, CF-OBZ, BCFP

1948 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Mk. I, c/n 17, CF-OBZ, BCFP somewhere on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada sometime in early to mid 1970s.

1948 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 17, CF-OBZ, BCFP (British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.

• overall gloss white finish with gloss blue propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin red borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, vertical stabilizer, & ventral tail fin, and matt black anti-glare panel

• 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

• high-wing strut-braced monoplane; outboard single-slotted droop aileron interconnected with inboard single-slotted trailing-edge flap, and single strut on each wing

• forward crew door with strutbar steps on float struts on each side, including pilot’s intermediate strutbar step, centre cabin door with strutbar steps on float struts on each side, aft baggage compartment with baggage door on port side

• porthole rear cabin windows

• Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral tail fin

History:

• built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario

• delivered as CF-OBZ to Department of Lands and Forests, Ontario Provincial Air Service, Province of Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie Airport (YAM/CYAM), Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada on September 10, 1948 and cancelled in late 1964

• based at Sudbury/Ramsey Lake Water Aerodrome, Sudbury, Ontario

• some early production built with no porthole rear cabin windows

• Edo 58-4580 straight floats, ventral tail fin

• overall gloss yellow finish with gloss black cheat line along fuselage and matt black anti-glare panel

• CF-OBZ, Laurentide Financial Corporation Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada circa 1967 and cancelled prior to certificate of airworthiness renewal on February 10, 1971

• overall gloss white finish with gloss turquoise propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin black borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, & tail stripe with thin black borders on vertical stabilizer, black fuselage underside, and matt black anti-glare panel

• propeller spinner

• porthole rear cabin windows

• Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral tail fin

• CF-OBZ, Cattermole-Tretheway Contractors Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada sometime prior to certificate of airworthiness renewal on February 10, 1971 and cancelled prior to certificate of airworthiness renewal on November 5, 1973

• titled CATTERMOLE-TRETHEWAY on rear fuselage; overall gloss white finish with gloss turquoise propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin black borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, & tail stripe with thin black borders on vertical stabilizer, black fuselage underside, and matt black anti-glare panel

• ? Cattermole-Tretheway Contractors Ltd. acquired by Finning Tractor & Equipment Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada (Caterpillar dealership)

• CF-OBZ, BCFP (British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.), Vancouver, B.C., Canada prior to certificate of airworthiness renewal on November 5, 1973

• based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.

• overall gloss white finish with gloss blue propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin red borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, vertical stabilizer, & ventral tail fin, and matt black anti-glare panel

• re-registered as C-FOBZ in 1976

• gloss white vertical stabilizer with gloss blue rudder

• Edo 58-4580 straight floats, ventral tail fin

• overall gloss white finish with gloss dark green propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin yellow borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, & ventral tail fin, and matt black anti-glare panel

• Edo 58-4580 straight floats

• Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral tail fin

• BCFP (British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.) acquired by Fletcher Challenge Ltd., Auckland, North Island, New Zealand in 1987 and merged in 1988 to form Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd.

• C-FOBZ, Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd., South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on September 27, 1988 and cancelled on January 31, 1994

• based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)

• overall gloss white finish with aluminum propeller spinner, three shades of blue cheat lines along fuselage, three shades of blue bands & gloss black on upper rear fuselage, blue leading-edge, wingtips, & horizontal stabilizer tips, three shades of blue tail stripe on vertical stabilizer tip, gloss black fuselage underside, and matt black anti-glare panel

• Edo 679-4930 straight floats, Kenmore floatplane finlets on horizontal stabilizer

• propeller spinner removed

• C-FOBZ, Timberwest Forest Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada on January 31, 1994 and cancelled on May 14, 1999

• based at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3), Tyee Spit, Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C.

• gloss black ventral tail strake

• propeller spinner

• Edo 679-4930 straight floats, ventral tail strake

• titled TimberWest on rear fuselage; overall gloss white finish with gloss green finish on upper half of fuselage

• C-FOBZ, Rush Air Ltd., Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on May 14, 1999 and cancelled on January 29, 2001

• based at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3)

• C-FOBZ, Siskin Holdings Ltd., Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on February 12, 2001

• based at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3)

• ? accident at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3) sometime about 2002, ? flipped over

• ? undergoing rebuild by Jim Hayton, Sedro Woolley, Washington, USA

• ? slow rebuild or ? stored

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35mm roll film camera, s/n 86125; Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319]

© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1973 
© Copyright words and photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, January 2015

1957 Bell 47G-2, c/n 2425, CF-LRD, Okanagan Helicopters

1957 Bell 47G-2, c/n 2425, CF-LRD, Okanagan Helicopters with BCFP’s Web Binion and four unidentified men at BCFP’s Caycuse Camp, Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada sometime in spring 1964.

1957 Bell 47G-2, c/n 2425, CF-LRD, Okanagan Helicopters (Okanagan Helicopters Ltd.), Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)

• titled Okanagan on saddle-mounted external fuel tanks; overall gloss yellow finish; in Okanagan Helicopters colour scheme (1947)

• powered by one vertically-mounted 220-hp Avco Lycoming VO-435-A1D six-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, fan-cooled piston engine with two-blade main rotor & stabilizer bar and two-blade tail rotor on starboard side

• side-by-side pilot and two passengers, light helicopter utility transport

• hydraulic-assist controls, twin saddle-mounted external fuel tanks, exposed welded-tube tail boom with synchronized horizontal stabilizer and end plates, and tail skid as tail rotor guard

• full “goldfish bowl” bubble canopy, removable forward cabin door on each side, external cargo outriggers on each side, provision for external belly sling hook

• fixed skid twin landing gear with air-inflated nylon floats for amphibious operations from land, water, marsh, ice, or snow

History:

• built by Bell Helicopter Corporation, Bell Aircraft Corporation, Hurst, near Fort Worth, Texas, USA at Bell Helicopter Plant 1, Bell Helicopter Hurst Heliport (0TE2), Hurst, near Fort Worth, Texas

• delivered as CF-LRD to Okanagan Helicopters (Okanagan Helicopters Ltd.), Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada in 1957

• based at Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)

• titled Okanagan on saddle-mounted external fuel tanks; overall gloss yellow finish; in Okanagan Helicopters colour scheme (1947)

• converted to 47G-2A, c/n 2425-20, powered by one vertically-mounted 240-hp Avco Lycoming VO-435-A1E six-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, fan-cooled piston engine with two-blade main rotor & stabilizer bar and two-blade tail rotor on starboard side

• N74094, ?, USA but further details unknown

• HK-1302E, ?, Colombia but further details unknown

• ? possibly Helicol (Helicópteros Nacionales de Colombia SA), Bogotá, Colombia

• cancelled in ?

• fate unknown

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35mm roll film camera, s/n 86125; Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319]

© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1964 

© Copyright words and photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, January 2015