Nanuq - How about a Beaver

BobJudy

February 02, 2022 05:24

I didn't want to hijack the other thread but you must have run into a few Beavers in your day up in the great white north;

That's de Haviland DHC-2 Beavers before one of you guys hijack this thread with an off color comment. This is a pic of the two that I took a lot of trips in from 1980 to about 2010 during my Nothern Ontario fishing phase. I found the pic on the net when the subject of seaplanes came up in the other thread. True workhorses and even though they are 65 years or so young, they are still doing the job. Quite a few are still in Canada and a lot are in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Need a 14 foot Lund aluminum boat at a remote lake, just strap it on the frame above one of the pontoons and off you go.

I haven't been back up there in 10 or so years so I did a google search to see how things were going. Found out C_GPUS, the plane in the foreground, had a little crash in 2018. They caught the top of a tree after lifting off a lake and flipped the plane on shore. Two people onboard but no injuries, thank God. I guess they helicoptered out the plane in pieces and repaired and reassembled it and got it back in the air for 2021. Probably good for another 60 years.

I was just curious if you have had the pleasure of sitting behind that big radial engine and hearing it rumble. Bob

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  Merlinnv12

  February 05, 2022 23:15

  NANUQ, this might be more in line with you are used to seeing. My 140 on skis.

  

  Sold the 140, kept the skis for my 170. Whole helluva lotta fun!

  

  
  

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  Nanuq907

  February 06, 2022 00:43

  What a spectacular, gorgeous machine! Wow, that's nice.

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