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

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

New Camera

After many months of research (product descriptions, specifications, reviews, and forums), and watching prices and sales at Kerrisdale Cameras, Broadway Camera, London Drugs, Costco, Best Buy, Future Shop, Black’s, Lens & Shutter, Staples, and The Source), I have purchased a new camera. I always knew it would be a Nikon, having previously used a Nikon FE2 for many problem-free years.

I now have a new tool in my stable, a 2010 Nikon D3100 14.2 megapixel DX-format DSLR Nikon F-mount camera, s/n 5119118; Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18–55 mm f/3.5–5.6G VR lens, s/n 53867376, with 52-mm UV(C) filter; and Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55–200 mm f/4–5.6G VR IF-ED lens, s/n 4081625, with 52-mm UV(C) filter. I found a great deal for $589.99 plus taxes = $681.39 at Broadway Camera in Lawnsdowne Mall, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Saturday morning, June 1, 2013. The package included lens hood, EN-EL 14 rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, MH-24 battery charger, DK-5 eyepiece cap, DK-20 rubber eyecap, BS-1 accessory shoe cover, BF-18 body cap, AN-DC3 camera strap, two smaller and two bigger Ferrite cores, ViewNX 2 CD, Quick Start Guide, User’s Manual, Reference CD, and Warranty; plus added extras of one LowePro Apex 140 AW soft camera bag and two 52-mm UV(C) filters worth about another $100.00 in total. The young Chinese university student was friendly, well-mannered, and knowledgeable. In addition, I purchased a 16 G SDHC memory card and an extra EN-EL 14 rechargeable Lithium-ion battery. From the Nikon FE2, I transferred a package of Kodak lens cleaning paper, a lens pen, and a blue vintage Nikon cloth.

Cameras I have retired are:

• the camera I first learned the basics of classic photography, and still in working condition, a 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
• long lost, a Rolleiflex 4x4 Baby Rolleiflex “Sport”, Model 4RF 430, TLR 127 roll film camera with Zeiss Jena Tessar 60-mm f/2.8 taking lens and Heidoscop Anastigmat 60-mm f/2.8 finder lens
• long lost, a 1971 Agfa Agfamatic 100 sensor viewfinder 126 cartridge film camera, 42.1-mm f/11 lens
• still in working condition, my ever-reliable 1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film F-mount camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter, thoroughly cleaned a couple of times since new in July 1985, but never an issue until summer 2012 when the “A” mode no longer functioned but still usable in manual mode; with the cost of film and processing these days, plus a possibly expensive repair bill, and the need for a compatible zoom lens as I no longer have the one I had in the 1980s, I reluctantly (at first) decided to move into the realm of digital SLRs
• in recent years I used a Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens, s/n 31002061A, until it was stolen
• then, a Nikon Coolpix L20 point-and-shoot 10 MP digital camera, Nikkor 38–136-mm f/3.1–6.7 lens, s/n 51002451, not as good as the Casio

On my two blogs, WORDS & ROADS and WORDS & WINGS, I will start to post assorted new photographs, along with more photographs from the previous cameras in my stable.

Singer-Link GAT-1 (General Aviation Trainer), “N192GP”, British Columbia Aviation Museum

Singer-Link GAT-1 (General Aviation Trainer), “N192GP”, British Columbia Aviation Museum on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 12:53 PST

Singer-Link GAT-1 (General Aviation Trainer), “N192GP”, British Columbia Aviation Museum, Victoria International Airport (YYJ/CYYJ), North Saanich, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada

• powered by three 12-Volt electric motors with domestic 240V main supply
• single-seat, instrument flight simulator (single-engine aircraft cockpit flight simulator)
• fibreglass cockpit mounted on gyroscope-controlled, six-degrees-of-freedom heavy mechanical base (holding the three electric motors and a slip ring allowing cockpit to yaw, roll, and pitch) capable of throwing it through a 360-degree turn at any pitch up to 10 degrees at a touch of the controls, feeding the resulting information back to the cockpit instrument panel
• fully-representative instrument panel, yoke, throttle, mixture controls, rudder pedals

• built by The Singer Company, Link Division, Binghamton, New York, USA at Binghamton, New York
• Link Trainer
• last generation of mechanical flight simulators
• static display

[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, December 2011

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

1967 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 100, c/n 40, C-FGQE, “069”, Air BC

1967 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 100, c/n 40, C-FGQE, “069”, Air BC 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

1967 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 100, c/n 40, C-FGQE, “069”, Air BC (Air BC 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 AirBC on rear fuselage
• powered by two 550-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 turboprop engines with constant-speed, full-feathering reversible-pitch, three-blade Hartzell propellers
• crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), 18 passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport
• CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer

• built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
• 5H-MNK, de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, Ontario, Canada rolled out on May 15, 1967
• first flight on May 30, 1967
• fixed tricycle landing gear
• delivered as 5H-MNK to East African Airways (East African Airways Corporation), Nairobi, Kenya on July 13, 1967
• registered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• ferried via London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL), Hillingdon, London, England on July 16, 1967
• airline ceased operations in 1977
• CF-GQE, Bannock Aerospace (Bannock Aerospace Ltd.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada on August 17, 1973
• CF-GQE, Air West Airlines (Air West Airlines Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada in October 1973
• based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9)
• CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• re-registered as C-FGQE in 1978
• Air West Airlines (Air West Airlines Ltd.) renamed as Airwest Airlines (Airwest Airlines Ltd.) in April 1979
• 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-FGQE, 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
• based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9)
• leased to Fort Smith Air Service (Fort Smith Air Service Ltd.), Fort Smith, NWT, Canada on July 15, 1982
• returned to Air BC on July 29, 1982 and cancelled on October 9, 1986
• damaged dockside at Victoria Inner Harbour Airport (YWH/CYWH), Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on August 27, 1983 after hit by a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbine Otter of Kenmore Air (Kenmore Air Harbor Inc.)
• repaired and returned to service
• 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)
• 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
• C-FGQE, “069”, Air BC (Air BC Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on November 28, 1986
• based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9)
• Air BC’s affiliation with CP Air as a CP Air Commuter regional partner ended in April 1987
• Air BC became an Air Canada Connector regional partner on April 26, 1987
• withdrawn from use and stored at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) on December 18, 1995
• C-FGQE, “609”, West Coast Air (West Coast Air Ltd.), Vancouver, B.C., Canada in January 1996
• based at Vancouver Harbour Water Airport (CXH/CYHC), Coal Harbour, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, B.C.
• operated first West Coast Air service between Victoria Inner Harbour Airport (YWH/CYWH) and Vancouver Harbour Water Airport (CXH/CYHC) on January 25, 1996
• damaged in water collision with 1959 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 1203, C-FHRT, Tofino Air (Tofino Air Lines Ltd.), Gibsons, B.C., Canada at Vancouver Harbour Water Airport (CXH/CYHC) on October 13, 2002
• repaired and returned to service
• Harbour Air Seaplanes (Harbour Air Ltd.) completed its purchase of West Coast Air on April 30, 2010 and consolidated their terminal services but West Coast Air still operates under its own banner
• West Coast Air moved to South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) on August 12, 2010
• 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

1969 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300, c/n 259, C-FKBI, Harbour Air

1969 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300, c/n 259, C-FKBI, 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

1969 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300, c/n 259, C-FKBI, 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)

• leased from Kenn Borek Air (Kenn Borek Air Ltd.), Calgary International Airport (YYC/CYYC), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• titled HARBOUR AIR on rear fuselage, in Kenn Borek Air colour scheme
• powered by two 620-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 turboprop engines with constant-speed, full-feathering reversible-pitch, three-blade Hartzell propellers
• crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), 19 passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport
• CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer

• built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
• CF-QEI not taken up by de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, Ontario, Canada
• CF-AJK, de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, Ontario, Canada rolled out on ?
• first flight on August 25, 1969
• fixed tricycle landing gear
• delivered as ZK-CJZ to Mount Cook Airlines (Mount Cook Group), Christchurch, New Zealand on October 27, 1969
• imported in 1973
• CF-KBI, Kenting Atlas Aviation (Kenting Atlas Aviation Ltd.), Resolute Bay, NWT, Canada on September 20, 1973
• departed Auckland International Airport (AKL/NZAA), Mangere, North Island, New Zealand on September 11, 1973 for delivery to Canada
• Kenting Atlas Aviation (Kenting Atlas Aviation Ltd.), formerly Kenting Aviation Limited (1947–1962), ceased operations in 1975, taken over by Kenn Borek Air (Kenn Borek Air Ltd.) in same year
• CF-KBI, Kenn Borek Air (Kenn Borek Air Ltd.), Calgary International Airport (YYC/CYYC), Calgary, Alberta, Canada in July 1975
• based at Calgary International Airport (YYC/CYYC)
• fixed tricycle landing gear/wheel-skis/ski-equipped/tundra tires/CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• damaged on take-off near Resolute Bay, NWT, Canada on September 16, 1979 after leaving unprepared gravel strip
• repaired and returned to service
• re-registered as C-FKBI in June 1980
• leased to Alkan Air (Alkan-Air Ltd.), Whitehorse International Airport (YXY/CYXY), Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada in June 1981
• based at Whitehorse International Airport (YXY/CYXY)
• fixed tricycle landing gear
• returned to Kenn Borek Air in December 1981
• leased to Harbour Air (Harbour Air Ltd.), South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on May 15, 1987
• based at Vancouver International Water Airport (CAM9)
• CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• returned to Kenn Borek Air in September 1987
• fixed tricycle landing gear/wheel-skis/ski-equipped/tundra tires/CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• leased to Harbour Air on April 28, 1988
• returned to Kenn Borek Air on September 30, 1988
• leased to Harbour Air on May 4, 1989
• returned to Kenn Borek Air on October 3, 1989
• leased to Harbour Air on June 17, 1990
• returned to Kenn Borek Air on September 22, 1990
• leased to Aero Cóndor (Aero Cóndor SA, Servicios Aéreos Turisticos), Lima, Peru on January 17, 1991
• fixed tricycle landing gear
• C-FKBI, Borek Construction Ltd., Dawson Creek, B.C., Canada on May 24, 1991
• still leased to Aero Cóndor
• returned to Borek Construction Ltd. on July 26, 1991
• leased as HP-1191AP to AeroPerlas (Aerolíneas Islas de Las Perlas SA), Panama City, Panama on August 27, 1991
• returned as C-FKBI to Kenn Borek Air on June 9, 1993
• fixed tricycle landing gear/wheel-skis/ski-equipped/tundra tires/CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• leased to Harbour Air on June 4, 1994
• CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• returned to Kenn Borek Air on September 15, 1994
• leased to Adventure Network International (ANI), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA in October 1994
• based in Antarctic for luxury expedition-style camps for private travellers and full-support service deep into interior of South Pole during months of November, December, and January
• ski-equipped
• returned to Kenn Borek Air in February 1995
• leased to Harbour Air on April 9, 1995
• returned to Kenn Borek Air on September 21, 1995
• leased to Adventure Network International on September 28, 1995
• returned to Kenn Borek Air on February 25, 1996
• leased to Harbour Air on April 2, 1996
• returned to Kenn Borek Air in September 1996
• leased to Adventure Network International on September 28, 1996
• returned to Kenn Borek Air in March 1997
• leased to Harbour Air on March 5, 1997
• returned to Kenn Borek Air on September 22, 1997
• leased to Harbour Air on April 18, 1998
• returned to Kenn Borek Air in December 2000
• leased as 8Q-MAO to Maldivian Air Taxi (Maldivian Air Taxi Pte. Ltd.), Malé, North Malé Atoll (Kaafu Atoll), Maldives on February 4, 2001
• based at seaplane base of Malé International Airport (MLE/VRMM), Hulhulé Island, North Malé Atoll (Kaafu Atoll), Maldives
• CAP 12000 straight floats, seaplane fins on horizontal stabilizer
• returned as C-FKBI to Kenn Borek Air on June 15, 2004 and cancelled on September 21, 2005
• 8Q-MAO, Maldivian Air Taxi (Maldivian Air Taxi Pte. Ltd./Seaplane Holdings A/S, Vedbaek, Denmark), Malé, North Malé Atoll (Kaafu Atoll), Maldives on September 25, 2005
• based at seaplane base of Malé International Airport (MLE/VRMM)
• 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