The photo of a yellow CF-FHF shows the Beaver tailed up at a survey camp at Germansen Lake in northern BC in the summer of 1962, while it was in the employ of the BC government. Gerry Andrews was a remarkable individual who, at the time, was Surveyor-General of British Columbia , but whose real claim to fame (and the reason for many decorations and letters after his name) was his pioneering work in the use of aerial photography for mapping. It was Gerry's mapping of the Normandy beaches that was partly responsible for the success of the D-Day invasion. He later applied these techniques in mapping BC - which is the reason the survey crew was at Germansen Lake in the first place. In order to produce maps from aerial photos you need survey control - and up until the 1950's this required pack horses and hiking. The Surveys and Mapping Branch of the BC government pioneered the use of helicopters as far back as 1951 - and FHF was another asset for moving men and supplying camps throughout BC.

Note: G. S. (Gerry) Andrews who passed away recently (2006) just short of his 102nd birthday.