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Banner photo: C-FJIM (461) "Woopsie" CAM9 - Fraser River, Richmond, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 04 April 2008 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-GTBQ (1316) "August Arrival" - Nanaimo, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 05 August 2008 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FOCY (79) "CAM9 Climb" Fraser River, Richmond, British Columbia - John W. Olafson © 15 September 2016 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FPCG (1000) "Mover" CAM9, Fraser River, Richmond, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 08 September 2007 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-GMGD (519) "High Noon" - Coal Harbour, Vancouver, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 11 September 2007 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: 56-0410 (1159) "Oklahoma in Texas" Fort Worth, Texas - Unknown photographer © Date unknown - Aird Archives

Banner photo: N676SP (1247) "Departure" Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - John W. Olafson © 12 June 2015 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FDPM (1247) "Arrival" Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - John W. Olafson © 22 May 2011 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FZZJ (1019) "The Waiting Game" Fraser River, Richmond, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 26 June 2007 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: N111EB (366) "Beluga Beaver" Homer, Alaska - David A. Montgomery © July 2003 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FDHC (1677TB45) "DHC Turbine Time" Fraser River, Richmond, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 22 June 2007 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FAOP (1249) "Settling" Fraser River, Richmond, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 02 August 2008 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FGYP (146) "Golf Yankee Papa" Pat Bay, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 03 August 2008 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-GUOY (1101) "The Immortal Beaver" Pat Bay, British Columbia - Peter J. Cooper © 03 August 2008 - Aird Archives

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Celebrating thirty-seven 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.

If this is your first landing here, welcome on board.

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 did not always appear in the individual aircraft pages - close to three thousand larger images!!

Don't forget to visit the current Banner Archives page #100

You can also check out the Calendars Retrospective page for lots more!

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

. . . . . if at all possible !

Neil Aird © 1986 - 2024 (Wow! - 38 Years - Has it been that long?) - Saw my first Beaver in 1961

Photo: "Sunflower" Brooch by Neil Aird © 08 September 2001

Latest update: 28 March 2024utc

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The Great Beaver Photo Hunt countdown 1,692 built
Only 316 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 on the website, as of 29 February 2024.
15,565

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 free e-book", now has some 4,606 pages and at least 22,449 or so different images!!

(Not counting the close to three thousand of my once daily "Toonies" - the series has run it's course).

About 15,606 of Beaver aircraft (my running tally - which is anything containing parts of a Beaver).

Even includes some videos and slide shows and large PDF presentations. WARNING: Could be very addictve.

My sincere thanks to my research collegue, Ian S. Macintosh. (Now retired!)

Special thanks to: Jens Brokuf, Bruce W. Gowans, Robert S. Grant, Nick Jackson, Jacques Guillem, Adrian M. Balch, John Mounce, Ian M. Macdonald,

Dirk Septer, Ron Kosys, Ben Cogger, and many others. LINK

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All photos displayed herein are protected by international copyright laws and remain the property of the respective photographer.

No photo may be used for any means other than your private viewing without the express written consent of the publisher and/or individual photographer. This is strictly enforced.

Thank you for your understanding.

Drop me an e-mail if you wish to use any images.

nca "at" dhc-2.com

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Ah - Hi - there you are!! I'm here working away - nice to have your company - enjoy your visit!

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March 2024

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ARCHIVED PAGES

AirHistory.net - Beavers

1,900 photos.

Rainer Haufschild Collection on AirHistory.net 750 photos.

I created one of these every single day . .

. . .when I possibly could - that series has now been completed.

Nine years!

Over 2,800 drawings.

Trainworks

Now has 97images.

For the rebuilders

Latest Blog Update

28 March 2024

Check out Neil's

Absolutely nothing to do with Beavers !

Aird Aviation Archives

At least 4,698 images now!

My regular INSTAGRAM account

27 added in

March 2024

A Beaver-a-day, if I can!

If you like DHC-3 Otters ?

Try our

DHC-3archive.com

Maintained by Karl E. Hayes and Neil Aird.

For the DHC-6 Twin Otter

Try our

TwinOtterArchive.com

Maintained by Neil Aird.

Set your screen to 125% to enjoy larger photos!
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C-GTBQ

461

C-FJIM

1247

N676SP

1159

56-0410

519

C-GMGD

1000

C-FPCG

79

C-FOCY

1677TB45

C-FDHC

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53-2819

366

N111EB

1019

C-FZZJ

1247

C-FDPM

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C-FOCC

722

N90546

1101

C-GUOY

145

C-FGYP

1249

C-FAOP

1129

N17598

997

N997DH

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C-FOCN

151

C-FLLA

1208

C-FHRT

942

C-FJBP

1147

N4040W

1430

C-FAWA

672

N613WB

1644TB24

C-FOEH

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Thanks to the generous, talented photographers who donate their work!

This is the 19th Year of the calendar. The 236th image. Good grief - that's a lot!

• Photo: Peter J. Cooper © 22 June 2007 •

March 2024

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Calendar Pages Retrospective

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SOME FAVOURITE TYPES FROM

AIRD AVIATION ARCHIVES

DC-6 / C-118

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DC-7

(19)

Beech 18 - C-45

(37) new!

Many, many, still to add.

DHC-3archive.com

Honouring the de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter family - Turbine and Piston, with roughly 2,014 images so far.

Averaging 100 - 150 unique views per day.

Dallas Nigh ©

New listing: C-GEZS (1277) FOR SALE

Kevin Fairley ©

New listing: C-GTBV (388) FOR SALE

If you have a Beaver For Sale - or related item - please use the e-mail nca "at" dhc-2.com to contact me.

Perhaps I can help you find a buyer? We have quite the audience.

The original DHC-6 Twin Otter website.

Adding additional photos, every now and then, if and when I get any.

Done just for my amusement and edification - you are most welcome join in, browse, and of course, hopefully, contribute.

This layout and concept are consistant with the historical format of DHC-2.COM and DHC-3archive.com my two other major websites.

Averaging 2,500 unique views per month.

March 2024 - 150 months online - over twelve years!

The first & longest running de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter web photo resource.

Note: I am only updating every now and then - having fun with too many other projects.

At least 5,292 images added. Maybe you have some photos to contribute?

e-mail: twotter "at" cogeco.ca

• Here you will find some basic data for 844 Legacy de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters - plus the new build Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 400 •

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".

Also adding favourites from various friend's collections, especially Rainer Haufschild's slides and negatives, here and to AirHistory.net for all to enjoy.

Aird Aviation Archives

Some nostalgic airport visits and images, after sixty-seven years of "watching planes" adventures 1957 - 2024.

"Still crazy after all those years . . . . " Paul Simon © 1975.

"Memorable Magic Moments"

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We have had visitors from ( at least ) 187 countries *

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

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THE IMMORTAL BEAVER

Well worth viewing, if you have not seen it already.

Maybe you should watch it again!

Be one of about 1.83 million who have

seen this documentary.

. . . . . . . . . just since 13 March 2020.

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Danie's RECENT PUBLICATONS

Book three!

Danie's latest book - "Who's on the Camino" - 101 Pilgrim experiences on the way to Santiago.

It is a really good read, all colour photographs too.

Click on the book image, when the Amazon page opens, click on the large book on the left hand side of that page - you should be good for eight free pages.

Danie's previous book was published (07 February 2022).

Both are available for sale around the world on Amazon.

WEBSITE

"The Camino is not just for walking" - Pilgrims, Hosts and Ghosts along The Way.

Meanwhile Danielle wrote:..... I am so excited! My book The Camino is not just for Walking has arrived. It can be found on Amazon but if you live in Kingston and would like a signed copy, I will have a stock of them to be collected at my house. You pay no shipping. The proceeds will go to help the wonderful men and women who host and feed pilgrims along the Camino de Santiago and who have sustained huge losses in income these last couple of years. Just let me know if you and / or your friends would like a copy. I will put the kettle on and we can have a visit at the same time. Here is the blurb. Have a wonderful day.

When Danielle Aird went in search of stories along the Camino de Santiago, she found a wealth of history not only of the Camino but of a wider Spain, and came across a fascinating, motley collection of characters alive and departed (pilgrims, hosts, volunteers, and other Spaniards). Unexpectedly, along the way, she also revisited her own unconventional past. In The Camino is not just for Walking, while her narrative takes readers by the hand through the small villages and larger cities, they are joined by usually friendly, often inspiring and sometimes eccentric characters spanning a millennium.

WEBSITE

Danielle's blog "danieonthego" - I urge you to have a read.

Danie - never one to mince words.

Link to her first book's website

"The Fishermen of Progresso" - Short Stories by Danielle Aird

• Danielle's on going Philanthropic Projects •

Calcutta Rescue Canada

Short slide show & video The India Connection

You can donate via the main Calcutta Rescue Website

. . please help out if you can.

If you wish to contact me use the e-mail below and enter the "@" symbol where you see "at".

nca "at" dhc-2.com

I'd really like to hear from you someday!

Especially if you can help support the website.

Photographic images used  throughout this website are either in the public domain, or used with express permission of their respective copyright holders.

Please note: Images and articles freely added, alas, cannot be removed.

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Neil Aird © 1986 - 2024

My Dear Old School - It will gradually be rebuilt!