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Banner photo: HK-1018 (93) "Wash Needed" - Chris Van Way © 27 March 2023 - Aird Archives
Banner photo: C-FOER (1671TB41) "More Yellow" Thunder Bay, Ontario - Sheldon D. Benner © 10 August 1977 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives
Banner photo: N772AE (498) "Happy trail to you . . . " Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - Fred Wallis © 25 March 2023 - Aird Archives
Banner photo: CF-OEX (1684TB52) "May Day" Toronto Island Airport - CYTZ, Ontario - Sheldon D. Benner © 03 May 1969 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives
Banner photo: CF-OEX (1684TB52) "CNE Airshow Time" Toronto Island Airport - CYTZ, Ontario - Sheldon D. Benner © 31 August 1969 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives
Banner photo: C-FOEY (1686TB54) "No longer yellow" - Kenneth I. Swartz © 10 April 1978 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives
Banner photo: CF-OET (1674TB44) "Tea Time" Toronto Island airport seaplane base, Ontario - Sheldon D. Benner © July 1971 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives
Banner photo: N2749 (285) "Snow gone", Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - Jens Brokuf © 25 May 2022 - Aird Archives
Banner photo: N3456L (488) "Float Season bekons" , Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - Jens Brokuf © 23 May 2022 - Aird Archives
Banner photo: N493K (1155) "KATMAI critter", Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - Jens Brokuf © 23 May 2022 - Aird Archives
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Celebrating thirty-seven years of research.
This website is a lasting tribute to the men and women, past and present, who have had anything to do with this fine aircraft.
Thanks for visiting and supporting the website.
If this is your first landing here, welcome on board.
Recording DHC-2 Beaver history, every single day . . .
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Neil Aird © 1986 - 2023 (Wow! - 37 Years - Has it been that long?) - Saw my first Beaver in 1961
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Latest update: 31 March 2023utc
* For regular visitors . . . this is the page to BOOKMARK *
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The Great Beaver Photo Hunt countdown 1,692 built
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Only 316 photos left to find!
Can you help?
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Individual Histories - most with several images on the Website. More added each and every day !
I maintain a complete database, only a small part of it is on this website, I usually wait for a picture before adding data.
Can you help with any additonal snaps? Be part of the search team!
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I thrive on feedback, and am happy to add specific requests! Send an e-mail suggestion. Replace the "at" with @
nca "at" DHC-2.com
Approximate number of DHC-2 images on the website, as of 28 February 2023.
Thanks again to Ian Macintosh for the stats.
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Tell me now, what book do you have that adds several images/pages to itself each and every day?
CAUTION: This website, really a "giant free e-book", now has some 4,579 pages and at least 21,784 or so different images!!
(Not counting the close to three thousand of my once daily "Toonies").
About 15,191 of Beaver aircraft (my running tally - which is anything containing parts of a Beaver! - Hence different from Ian's Monthly Tally).
Even includes some videos and slide shows and large PDF presentations. WARNING: Could be very addictve.
My sincere thanks to my hard working research collegue, Ian S. Macintosh.
Special thanks to: Jens Brokuf, Bruce W. Gowans, Robert S. Grant, Nick Jackson, Jacques Guillem, Adrian M. Balch, John Mounce, Ian M. Macdonald, Dirk Septer, Ben Cogger, and many others. LINK
For new visitors - How to navigate this Web Site Click here .
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NO VISAS EVER REQUIRED - ANYONE FROM ANYWHERE !
Our own global community - Visitors from 176 countries!
Ah - Hi - there you are!! I'm here working away - nice to have your company - enjoy the visit!
Widgit added 08-Dec-2014
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Missed some recent entries ?
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ARCHIVED PAGES
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I created one of these every single day . .
. . .when I possibly could - I am taking an extended break in 2023.
Nine years!
Over 2,800 drawings.
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Latest Blog Update
09 March 2023
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Absolutely nothing to do with Beavers !
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March 2023
A Beaver-a-day, if I can!
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If you like DHC-3 Otters ?
DHC-3archive.com
Maintained by Karl E. Hayes and Neil Aird.
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For the DHC-6 Twin Otter
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Wondering what may be next?
Connies & Sabres
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DC-6 / C-118
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This site is non-profit and non-commercial. Free of advertising, but there are significant costs for internet services.
If you enjoy this site, we do need your support every now and then.
A small contribution to the 2023 Beaver Hat Campaign is most welcome ;-)
It's your support, through donations, make this website possible. Thank You!
• PayPal •
Meanwhile, enjoy your free (downloadable PDF) DHC-2.COM calendar pages.
Thanks to the generous, talented photographers who donate their work!
This was the 18th Year of the calendar. The 224th image. Good grief - that's a lot!
 
• Photo: Bruce W. Gowans © August 1985 •
March 2023
(For private use only please)
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DHC-3archive.com
Honouring the de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter family - Turbine and Piston, with roughly 1,905 images so far.
• Visitors so far - 137,780 since our roll-out back on 04 December 2015 • Note: THIS COUNTER STOPPED WORKING ;-( on 03 October 2022.
Current counter: 62,075 only active since 26 April 2018.
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New listing: C-FMPM (62) FOR SALE
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If you have a Beaver For Sale - or related item - please use the e-mail nca "at" dhc-2.com to contact me.
Perhaps I can help you find a buyer?
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This original format DHC-6 Twin Otter website is gradually being refreshed by Neil & Ian!
Adding additional photos, every now and then.
We do this just for our own amusement and edification - you are most welcome join us, browse, and of course, hopefully, contribute.
This layout and concept are consistant with that of DHC-2.COM and DHC-3archive.com our two major websites.
Over 318,115 unique visits logged since we began. (Hi Erik - how's tricks?)
February 2023 - 136 months online!
The longest running de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter web photo resource.
At least 5,173 images added. Maybe you have some photos to contribute?
e-mail: twotter "at" cogeco.ca
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• Basic data for 844 Legacy de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters - plus the new build Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 400 •
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I finally go delving into my fondly treasured, rather dusty, dog-eared, old notebooks - also busy scanning, restoring, and publishing slides and negs left to me by dear friends. Blueskies - "Kilo-Mike" and "Eddy". Also adding favourites from various friend's collections.
• Aird Aviation Archives •
Some nostalgic airport visits and images, after sixty-six years of "watching planes" adventures 1957 - 2023.
  
"Still crazy after all those years . . . . " Paul Simon © 1975.
"Memorable Magic Moments"
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We have had visitors from ( at least ) 187 countries *
(* interesting note, Beavers were exported to 63 countries !)
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THE IMMORTAL BEAVER
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Well worth viewing, if you have not seen it already.
Maybe you should watch it again!
Be one of over 1.8 million who have
seen this documentary.
. . . . . . . . . just since 13 March 2020.
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Danielle's blog "danieonthego" - I urge you to have a read.
Danie - never one to mince words.
Link to her first book's website
"The Fishermen of Progresso" - Short Stories by Danielle Aird
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GREAT NEWS !
Danie's latest book has been published (07 February 2022). Available for sale around the world on Amazon.
SELLING WELL - Have you got yours? Contact Danie and she can send one to you directly from Amazon with no shipping charges.
WEBSITE
"The Camino is not just for walking" - Pilgrims, Hosts and Ghosts along The Way.
Meanwhile Danielle wrote:..... I am so excited! My book The Camino is not just for Walking has arrived. It can be found on Amazon but if you live in Kingston and would like a signed copy, I will have a stock of them to be collected at my house. You pay no shipping. The proceeds will go to help the wonderful men and women who host and feed pilgrims along the Camino de Santiago and who have sustained huge losses in income these last couple of years. Just let me know if you and / or your friends would like a copy. I will put the kettle on and we can have a visit at the same time. Here is the blurb. Have a wonderful day.
When Danielle Aird went in search of stories along the Camino de Santiago, she found a wealth of history not only of the Camino but of a wider Spain, and came across a fascinating, motley collection of characters alive and departed (pilgrims, hosts, volunteers, and other Spaniards). Unexpectedly, along the way, she also revisited her own unconventional past. In The Camino is not just for Walking, while her narrative takes readers by the hand through the small villages and larger cities, they are joined by usually friendly, often inspiring and sometimes eccentric characters spanning a millennium.
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If you wish to contact me use the e-mail below and enter the "@" symbol where you see "at".
nca "at" dhc-2.com
I'd really like to hear from you someday!
Especially if you can help support the website.
Photographic images used throughout this website are either in the public domain, or used with express permission of their respective copyright holders.
Please note: Images and articles freely added, alas, cannot be removed.
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I hope you enjoyed your visit to DHC-2.COM - Please come again ! Spread the word too ;-)
Neil Aird © 1986 - 2023
My Dear Old School
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