De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver

🔍Let’s take a peek inside the De Havilland Canada DCH-2 Beaver! It was the first all-metal bush plane designed and built in Canada; still used in many countries around the world. Built in 1947, our museum aircraft is the prototype, or first, Beaver to be built and was used as a bush plane in Western Canada for thirty-two years. Its registration number, CF-FHB, incorporates the initials of Frederick Howard Buller, one of the Beaver’s two designers. Remarkably, during its final flight, between La

De Havilland Beaver 🇨🇦 on Instagram: "Before the advent of large and purpose built water bombers, there was this. A specially modified DHC-2 Beaver owned by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources @onresources @onforestfires with two rollover tanks fitted to the top of each float. This aircraft pioneered the water bombing techniques now used all over the world for fighting forest fires."