Main person to thank is Danielle, my very patient wife of 37 years......sometimes wondering what I have been up to all these years, hunched over a keyboard. She has recently published her first book. I'll take orders ;-) It contains some of her short stories, one of which is "aviation oriented"...she might even let me use part of it here.

"The Fishermen of Progreso" by Danielle Aird

AVAILABLE NOW! ALL OF HER PROFITS GO TO "Calcutta Rescue" - Please check Danie's website for details, support her and her wonderful cause!.

Web site is up at http://www.danielleaird.com Anthony did this snazzy site for his Mom .

Needless to say, I am a very proud husband ;-)

Some people I now single out for "special thanks"... Eric Munk, of Zwolle, The Netherlands. A long time friend and fellow enthusiast who has helped, in the early days, with compiling information on the Beaver. (We just met for the first time in Melbourne in April 2005!) Next is professional aviation photographer, bushpilot and operator Rich Hulina, of Sioux Lookout, Ontario, who keeps me updated with slides, prints and sightings. Another is Beaver pilot and photographer is Bill Hann with his outstanding contributions from Lotus Land!! Thanks gents!

Kenneth I. Swartz for his generous loaning of a remarkable private slide collection, amassed over the years. I feel I'll soon have to rename the site to the Ken Swartz Collection!! I have enough slides to scan now . . . I see no end ;-) A great position to be in. Thanks again Ken ! I will be scanning for years!! Your collection is a National Treasure!

Lenn Bayliss of Toowoomba, Queensland. Lenn, thanks for your dedication to the Beaver and for all those magnificent images you have generously contributed to DHC-2.COM. It was great to finally meet you "downunder" in April 2005. Your patiently acquired, incredible shots from Australia and Canada are a great historical record. You are a real professional!

John Kimberley I can't thank you enough John for granting permission to use your extensive, outstanding collection, garnered from years on the trap line! Your recording of Beaver history is second to none. Without your work, this site would be insignifcant!

Ruben Husberg of Norway, another generous gentleman, scanning and sending super slides of Beavers from his travels and very extensive collection. Wonderful stuff Ruben, always a pleasure to see an e-mail and scans from you!

The three Ians come next:

Ian MacFarlane from the United Kingdon has supplied many images from his extensive collection.

Ian Macdonald A chum from British Columbia has been sending many photographs from the 1970's taken in Ontario and B.C.

Ian McIntosh For being my number cruncher No:1 keeping me straight on the website, pointing out bad links, errors etc. Ian has been busy compiling our main database, which we hope to publish one day. I can't believe my luck in enlisting Ian. Thanks lad!!

The other conspiritor is Dirk Septer. Dirk and I have been working together for a few years now in the compilation/master index project.

John Olafson of Vernon, who patrols Beaver haunts for your viewing pleasure.

Wayne Mutza for donating his superb collection of prints.

Robin A. Walker for his USAF, U.S. ARMY in Europe and AAC images.

Geoff McDonnel for his slides and print collection.

Elwood White on Vancouver Island who has sent slides to me from there for careful scanning and return. Thanks Elwood, and also to daughter Shannon who has helped along the way ;-)

My two aviation pals "Speck" and "Kilo Mike", aka Stephen Peck and Ken Marshall, for their cheering from the side lines...also their omnipresent sarcastic humour ;-) Another valuable resource is "magicman" Bill Jesse, now of Victoria, BC.

Nick Nicholas of On Target graphics for the use of his great drawings. If you like them you can order directly from Nick. mailto:Ontarget@nti.net

A special ongoing thanks to Airliners.net - they have at present over 1,150 DHC-2 Beaver images to view ;-) , many of their photographers have kindly granted me pernmission to use their images, but to include them all is a daunting task, so have a look for yourself. Great to see them as large images. This site is truly "awesome" well done! Visit it often, I certainly do!

David Adam, Colin Adams, Anthony Aird, Danielle Aird, Josh Akbar, Abbas Ali, Stephen C. Allsep, Jonny Anderson, Jim Andie, Alexis Antonakis, Tony Arbon, Tom Arthur, Mike Aune, Pekka Autere, Tim Badham, Harold Bailey, Steve Bailey, Peter Bakema, Francois Bakkes, Mick Bajcar, Russ Bannock, Fred Barnes, Joe Barr, Doug Barry, Mike Barth, Bob Bates, Lenn Bayliss, Ian Beatty, Sheldon D. Benner, Ole Johan Berg, Oscar Bernadi, Ronnie Berning, Michael Besenthal, Rene Biber, Andreas Bischel, Mick Bajcar, Francois Bakkes, Eric Banworth, Peter Berganini, Pierre Berube, Warwick Bigsworth, Scott Black, Bill Blanchard, Mark Blok, Keith J. Bollands, Jean-Pierre Bonin, Warren Bork, Simon Boothroyd, Marc Bourdon, Andrew Brattkus, David Bridgen, Bill Brophy, Chris Brown, Darcy Brown, David Brown, Jim Burton, John Burford, Mark Butcher, Ian Burnett, John W. Calderwood, J. Neil Cameron, Kyle Cameron, George Canciani, Tammy Carmack, A. H. Carter, Raynold P. Camilleri, Peter Caslick, John Caswell, David Chadwick, Terry Challice, Gary Chambers, George Charity, Ron Charity, Chris Charland, Bowen Chau, Bob Childerhose, Terje Christensen, Harold Clark, Mike Clayton, Chris Coates, Eddie Coates, Simon Codd, Jenny Coffey, Barry J. Collman, Peter Conquerwood, Bob Coppinger, Jim Court, James Craik, B. Cranston, Darren Crick, David J. Cocks, Robin Cooper, Matthew Cosier, Steve Cos, Ryan Cossette, Jim Court, Mike Croker, Richard J. Currie, Dave Curtis, Pierre d'Andre, Andres Dallimonti, Peter A. Danby, Steve Darke, Levi Darnell, Brian Dary, John M. Davis, John R. Davies, Trevor Davies, Carl Davison, Barney Deatrick, Ray J. Deerness, Manuel J. Delgato, Normand Denis, Jeff Denny, Jonathan Derden, Thierry Deutsch, Rod Digney, Marco Dijkshoorn, Carl Dore, Ian Douglas, Henry E. Dreher, Lindsi Driesbach, Matthew Donica, Bruce Drum, Doug Dzus, Syl Dzus, Martin Eadie, Robert A. Edwards, Brandon Elliot, Ben Ellison,Art Englund, Paul Englund, Jaime Escobar-Corradine, Glen Etchells, Bill Ewing, Dave F., Bill Fairchild, Kevin Fairley, Adrian Falconer, Joe Fanazick, Martin Fenner, Michael Fenwick, Scott Ferguson, Tom Fex, Bernard Filiatrault, Emin Findikli, Glen Firman, Brian Fisher, Barry Flahey, Tee Flemming, Terry Fletcher, Marcel Fluet, David Fogwill, Harry Follas, Gerald Fontaine, Chas Ford, Paul Forsythe, Charles Fournet, Bob Fowler, John L. Francis, Chuck Franzin, Dr. W.G. Franzin, Pam Freese, Jack M. Friell, Erik Frikke, Wallace Frogley, Dion Fuchs, John Fuller, Mike Fussell, Robert Gagne, Bob Garrard, Steve Garlick, Wilber Gates Jr., David Gee, Ted Gerow, Tom B. Gibbons, Bruce Gignac, Pierre Gillard, Michel Giroux, Benno Goethals, Geoff Goodall, Fergal Goodman, Michael Goodwin, Pat Gould, Jennifer Gradidge, Bill Grady, Andy Graham, David Graham, Rory Grammer, John Greenhill, Michael Greenhill, E. H. Greenman, Gary Gentle, Gunter Grondstein, Gert Groenenberg, Tom Grant, Brad Greaves, Joop de Groot, Jacques Guillem, Dave Guilliams, Andres Restrepo Guitierrez, Scott Habberstad, Bo Haggkvist, Jim Hall, Rod Hall, Bill Hann, Ian Haskell, Jim Hansel, Phil Hanson, Nick Harris, Steve Hartl, Paul Hawkins, I. B. Hayes, Jack B. Hayes, Gary J. Hebbard, Dave Hedge, Brad Hegland, Magne Egil Heitmann, Derek Heley, Oliver Herting, Markus Herzig, John Hevesi, Barry Heyton, Rolf Hicker, Jack Hickson, Tom Hildreth, Conor Hildebrandt, Steve Hill, Holly Hipwell, Rowly Hipwell, Nigel Hitchman, Jim Hodgson, Robert P. Hom, Ben Hopkins, John Hopton, Dan Hornseth, Frank Hudson, Sergio Hulaczuk, Rich Hulina, W. G. Humphrey, Andrew Hunt, Arwen Hunter, Colin Hunter, Ken Hurford, Justin Iyres, Rodrigo Santa-Maria Izquierdo, Bill Jackson, Arno Jannson, Gord Jenkins, David Jaremy, David A. Jarratt, Greg Jensen, William Jesse, Erik Johannesson, Garth Johnson, Jamye Johnson, Mel Johnstone, John F. Jordan, Dick Josaitis, Mogens Juhl, Peter Keating, Christian Hansen Kamhaug, Dwayne Kasulka, Toni Kazakoff, Johan Kellerman, Peter Kelly, George Kent, John Kerr, R. F. Killick, Peter Killin, John Kimberley, Carrie King, Paul Kip, Marco Klostermann, Kevin Knox, Martin Koetsier, Leo J. Kohn, Bill Kolarik, Karl Kramer, Ken Kula, Jan Kulhavey, Patrick C. Lace, Tim Lachenmaker, Franz Lackner, Oliver Lacombe, Colin Laker, Michele Lambert, Bruce Lamond, Jack Lamont, John Land, William T. Larkins, Simon Lawrence, David Lednicer, Luc Levevre, Johnny Letto, Valerie Levasseur, Peter Liander, Peter Liedtke, Jacques Lienard, Richard London, Russ Lougheed, Roland R. Lussier, Ian Macdonald, Ian MacFarlane, Mike Madden, Michelle Madsen, Chris J. Mak, Ron Mak, Brian Marshall, Chris Marshall, Ken Marshall, Patrick Martin, Klaus Marx, John Mastro, John Mazepa, Dennis McCallum, Ian McConnell, Geoff McDonnel, Keith McKenzie, Tom McKibbon, Rod McLean, Gary McLeod, Ken McTavish, Scott McTavish, Trevor McTavish, Jean-Marie Magendie, Laura Marxen, Tom Meikle, Vince Meneely, Mark Merry, Shawn Miller,  Stephen Miller, Todd Miller, Graeme Mills, Yu Ming, Mike Minty, Jason Milot, Mike Mirkovic, Heath Moffatt, Jim Moore, Robin Moore, Derek Morton, Xavier Mouraux, Hugh Mullen, Coert Munk, Eric Munk, Neville Murphy, Nicolai Musante, Wayne Mutza, George Neal, Dennis Newell, Franklin L. Newton, Nick Nicholas, Air Nikon, Sippo Nevalainen, Russell Noble, John N. Nordstrom, Michael O'Farrell, R. Reaville, Philip O'Regan, John W. Olafson, Harald Olsen, Ron Olsen, Bob Ostrom, Glyn Owen, Stefano Pagiola, Ryan Park, Den Pascoe, Ted Paskowski, Craig Paul, Anthony L. Payne, Stephen R.Peck, Marcel Peerlkamp, David Perston, Antti Pesonen, Eric Petersen, Dick Petit, Charles Phaneuf, Mike Pink, Daniel Piotrowski, Robert Poirier, Jean-Luc Poliquin, Daryl Poncelet, Paul Poppenhager, Patrick Vinot Prefontaine, Anders Presterud, Martin Prince JR., Nathan Pritchard, Ted Prodzinski, Michael Prophet, Greg Putz, Marion Pyles, Bob Quinn, Tristan Raab, Gary Racicot, Sherrie Radatzke, Tom Radatzke, John Racey, Peter Reardon, Melvin Reed, Chris Reeves, Gordon Reid, Mario Richard, Robin Ridley, Martin Riehl, Alain Rioux, Juha Ritaranta, Stephen Ritland, Paul D. Roach, Brian Robbins, Es Robinson, Robert Roggeman, Chuck Ross, Kurt Roth, Rob Rowe, Wayne Rudd, Christian Ruppert, Paul Rushton, David Russell, Mathew Salmon, Kalevi Savola, Bill Sawchuk, Juergen Scherbarth, Walt Schlotfeldt, Jim Schoeggl, Rene Schrijver, Derek Scott, Colin Sedgwick, Dirk Septer, Frank Schaefer, Dennis J. Seath, Howard Setzer, Rick Sigurdson, Wallace Shackleton, Robbie Shaw, Noel Shennan, Terry Shepherd, Beth Shrieves, Bill Shull, William W. Sierra, Tii-Maria Siitonen, Keith M. Simpson, Tom Singfield, Doug Slowiak, Malcolm Smith, Mike Smith, Stan Smith, Keith Sowter, Jeff Sparks, Stuart Spicer, Erick Stamm, Scott Stamp, Bill Stadnyk, Mark Stedman, Raimund Stehmann, Peter Steinemann - Skyline APA, Ragnar Stenarson, Paul Stenner, Philip Stevens, Charles R. Stewart, John P. Stewart, Brian Stockall, Ken Stoltzfus, Jim Sullivan, John F. Sumrall, Fred Swartz, Kenneth I. Swartz, Terry Sykes, E. Tailliet, Ernie Tait, Norm Taylor, Henry Tenby, Jochen Thoma, Simon Thomas, Rick Timms, Steve Todd, Walt Torgersen, Phil Treweek, George Trussell, Pekka Tumme, Ben Ullings, Gerben Van Beek, Ben Veldman, Gary Vincent, Aad van der Voet, Marcel van Leeuwen, Peter Vine, Ugo Vizenci, Jeff Voigt, Michael Volk, George Volsky, Robin A. Walker, George D. Wallace, Fred Wallis, Robin A. Walker, Sally Walsh, Marcel Walther, Peter Watson, Marg Watson-Hyland, Randy Webber, Roger Wensley, Charles Wesley, Robert Wheeler, Brick Wellman, Elwood White, Ian White, Shannon White-Zahar, R. W. Whitlock Jr., Michael Wiens, Michael Wigen, Kevin Wiggins, Wally Wiggins, Stephen Wilcox, Terrance L. Wilds, Shaun vanBergen, Raymond van der Wilk, Brad Wilson, Ian Wilson, Jeremy Wilson, Simon Wilson, Warren Wilson, Mark Windridge, Wup Winn, Jack Wolbrink, Colin K. Work, Neville Worsley, James Wood, Robert Wood, Tim Woodland, Sid Woods, Frank Wright, Kevin Wyatt, Larry Ziminisky, J. Zwart, Crystal Zwicker, " Project DHC-2 ", and the Harbour Air Archives.

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And of course "Unknown photographer" whoever you are.

My appologies if your name does not have the appropiate accent applied - my software can't handle it!!

There are many others "unknown", who have images in my Archives, if you see your work and it is not duly credited, please let me know post haste and I will rectify the matter!!