c/n 1052

C-FYOI at Vanderhoof, British Columbia.

Photo: Peter Keating © 19 June 1983 - Ian MacFarlane Collection

C-FYOI ski-equipped at Whitehorse.

Photo: Unknown photographer © May 1979 - via Kenneth I. Swartz Collection

CF-YOI dolly take off at Prince George, BC.

Photos: Norm Marples © 1973

CF-YOI-X of Laurentian at Toronto Island Airport.

Strange aerial and appendage on this survey aircraft.

Photo: Frank Hudson © 23 August 1969

VH-AAV at Bankstown, NSW.

Photo: Greg Banfield © via Eddie Coates

A95-203 training on Lake Macquarie.

The Australian sport of Beaver wrestling.

Particitpants: Pilots Flt. Lt. H.G. Wilson (left) and Sdr. Ldr. Ian Grove (right) with Sgt. Manning front of port float and Sgt. Richardson at rear. Unknown airman at starboard float.

Photos: © Courtesy of Aviation Heritage Museum of Western Australia.

(Images P. 021865 and P. 021867) via Mike Murkovic

A95-203 posing for the camera.

Photos: © RAAF Archives

c/n 1052

A95-203  VH-AAV  N1590  CF-YOI C-FYOI  C-GECT  

C-GFCO

• Delivered 24-Jun-1957

• De Havilland Australia

• A95-203 Royal Australian Air Force

 • Delivered (by non de Havilliand source) 23-Sep-1956

• Australian Antarctic Research Flight • A.N.A.R.E

• DBR in gales 28-Dec-1959 and wreck combined with that of

A95-201 to create a complete aircraft

• VH-AAV Aerial Agriculture Ltd

• N1590 P. J. Murray, Oxnard, CA

• CF-YOI Laurentian Air Services Ltd., Ottawa • Regd Jul-1969

• Columbia Airlines, Prince George, BC.  • 1972 - 1975

• Wildwood Airlines Inc., Fort St James. BC • 1976 - 1977

• 108 Mile Airways, 100 Mile house, BC • 1978 - 1979

• C-FYOI Vanderhoof Flying Services Ltd., Vanderhoof, BC.

• Canx 1985

• Aircraft destroyed •

• Aircraft booby trapped and owner John Kluber killed on entering aircraft

as it drifted away on the Nechaho River. Ross Devauld also died. Unsolved murder.

• Canx Jun-1989 • Story here in The Province (21-Mar-2011)

Details below (via Transport Canada files)

At 10:00 A.M. 3 July, 1983 C-FYOI (c/n 1052) was destroyed by a bomb,

killing the pilot and one person in a boat along side of the aircraft. This

is still an open homicide file with the Prince George B.C. RCMP Detachment.

 c/n 1052 was destroyed and consumed by fire after the blast.

• C-GECT Pacific Aircraft Salvage, Richmond, BC

• Regd 25-Jan-1999  

• C-GFCO John Hill, Richmond, BC

• Regd 07-Jun-1999 • Canx 1999

• Parts to N94TP c/n 1942DP