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Banner photos: N5349G (812) with N62469 (1237) - "Good Evening from Lake Hood" - Fred Barnes © 08 June 1988

Banner photo: C-FZCO (1027) "Wheel tme again" - Dale Tiedeman © 18 September 2019

Banner photo: C-FXUN (1260) and C-FCQP (370) "At the Fort" - Neil Aird © 09 October 2002

Banner photo: AP-AKA (1037) "Recently assembled" - Peter Keating © 30 August 1957 - Aird Archives - via aflyinghistory.com

Banner photo: C-FJBM (931) "Back to the Present" - Kyle G. Cameron © 09 September 2019 - "Diani" (D-aw-knee) is the curious Husky.

Banner photo: VR-RBW (i46) "PERGAM" - Peter Keating © September 1958 - Aird Archives - via aflyinghistory.com

Banner photo: VR-RBS (i37) "CHAMAR" - Peter Keating © 11 October 1958 - Aird Archives - via aflyinghistory.com

Banner photo: VP-KNH (641) "Another V" - Peter Keating © 08 December 1955 - Aird Archives - via aflyinghistory.com

Banner photo: VQ-FAA (741) "FAA approved" - Peter Keating © August 1960 - Aird Archives - via aflyinghistory.com

Celebrating thirty-one 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.

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Too much fun to miss! - Check out the gallery of our most recent, and links to many earlier fine banners. Good for the soul.

Many items shown here do not always appear in the individual aircraft pages - hundreds of larger images!!

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Recording DHC-2 Beaver history, every single day . . .

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Latest update: 20 September 2019utc

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The Great Beaver Photo Hunt countdown 1,692 built

Only 399 photos left to find!

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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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Approximate number of DHC-2 images in database (31 August 2019) Thanks again to Ian Macintosh for the accurate stats.

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CURRENT MASTER INDEX

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 e-book", now has some 4,272 pages and at least 16,868 or so different images!! (Not counting my daily "Toonies").

Over 13,244 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. WARNING: Could be very addictve.

My sincere thanks to my hard working research collegues, Ian S. Macintosh, Ian M. Macdonald and Erik Johannesson.

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x September 2019 additions • Missed some recent entries ? Click below, scroll down, and catch up! ARCHIVED PAGES	My daily cartoon. "Adventures of Flame". I creat one of these every single day. On to year seven! You can also follow on INSTAGRAM.	Latest Blog Update 20 September 2019 • Check out Neil's CURRENT BLOG •	Absolutely nothing to do with Beavers ! • Aird Aviation Archives 2,238 images now! Visit our other DHC* websites* • For the DHC-6 TwinOtterArchive.com Maintained by Ian Macintosh* and Neil Aird.* For back-up reasons, both Twin Otter sites are kept active. • TwinOtterWorld by our colleague Erik Johannesson	x 28 added in September 2019 • A Beaver-a-day, if I can! • If you like DHC-3* Otters ?* Try our DHC-3archive.com •


234 C-GMAQ	812 N5349G	1237 N62469
898 CF-JFL	15 CF-FHA	1037 AP-AKA	1299 C-FXUN	1027 C-FZCO
146 VR-RBW	641 VP-KNH	137 VR-RBS	493 ZP-CLP	931 C-FJBM
979 C-GODH	480 C-FMRN	154 PT-AMY	7 CF-OBW	741 VQ-FAA
834 C-FIGF	969 N96006	70 N70JE	959 S-6	965 S-9 / PH-DHC
39 C-FFHA	1026 AP-AJP	1002 CF-JKG	1336 C-FZXD	514 N458LJ

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Keeping our original use of interactive thumbnails, but our new data format is being implemented gradually.

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• Detailed 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".

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Some nostalgic airport visits and sixty-two years of "chasing planes" adventures 1957 - 2019.

"Memorable Magic Moments"

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(* interesting note, Beavers were exported to 63 countries !)

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Aviation experts consider the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver to be one of the most perfectly designed small utility aircraft ever built.

The DHC-2 Beaver Yahoo Group is now inactive.

731 joined over the years.

I have left the archives there, if some of you want to dig in and learn from previous postings, and look at photographs added by members over twelve years!

FaceBook now fills this niche. Time to move on!id238_m.htm

click here to find out more about the old DHC-2 Yahoo Group.

Aviation Artist and Enthusiast Neil Aird researches the one and only . . .

de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver

INTRO: Tracking Beavers worldwide! I wish I had special tracking software for doing this, but alas, it's just a slow, pleasant slog.

News comes in from correspondents around the globe daily, without your eagle eyes in the field, I would surely miss some DHC-2 activity.

Digital photographs are welcome, slides and photographs require more work for me with my imaging software. I can scan and return the same day if you are willing to part with rare images from your collection. Many correspondents do this already! By doing this I can expand the website for us all to enjoy. I also try to buy slides every now and then as our donated funds permit. If you wish to donate your treasured slides, I will scan and eventually (when I croak!) they will go to Archives Canada. (If they will take them!)

Please keep your cameras handy, remember what is a daily scene for you is a delight for others, and history tomorrow! Even if you are on a hunting or fishing trip, take a snap of the Beaver that took you there.