Entries preceded by date are extracts from Department of Transport archives at Ottawa.
07-Jul-1949 Test flown for Aircraft Inspection Release Certificate by (illegible) - begins with E.A. Wie…… ??
07-Jul-1949 DHC advise Department of Transport that owners of DHC-2 c/n 58 CF-FHW will be de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd.
07-Jul-1949 Application for registration by de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd.
08-Jul-1949 Certificate of Airworthiness #3126 issued.
08-Jul-1949 Certificate of Registration #8107 issued to de Havilland Aircraft of Canada.
22-Jul-1949 Short-term lease to Austin Airways until their own Beaver CF-FHX was ready for delivery.
• CF-FHW Leased to Austin Airways Ltd., Toronto, ON. 22-Jul-1949.
14-Oct-1949 Application for registration by Government of the Province of British Columbia.
• CF-FHW British Columbia Provincial Police, Air Division. Based Vancouver, BC. Delivered 22-Oct-1949.
26-Oct-1949 Bill of Sale; de Havilland Aircraft of Canada to Western Aircraft Sales & Service Ltd., as agents for de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd., to The Government of the Province of British Columbia, Provincial Police Department.
28-Oct-1949 Certificate of Registration #8351 issued to Government of the Province of British Columbia, Provincial Police Department.
• CF-FHW Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Responsibility for policing British Columbia placed in the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police). Aircraft absorbed from British Columbia Provincial Police on 15-Aug-1950.
15-Jan-1951 Indenture; His Majesty The King In The Right Of The Province Of British Columbia as represented by the Attorney-General for the said province to His Majesty The King in the right of the Dominion of Canada
27-Feb-1951 Application for registration by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa
15-Mar-1951 Certificate of Registration #9317 issued to Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Accident: Un-named location. Lat 49°23’N Lon 123°20’W. 08-Jun-1957. On the landing approach gusty winds and downdrafts caused by adjacent the hilly shore caused the port float then the starboard wing of the aircraft to strike the water. No injuries were reported but there was substantial damage to the aircraft, including bent tip to the starboard wing and a small dent to the starboard aileron. There was damage to the outer rib assembly to which the wingtip was attached and damage to the skin in the section adjoining the wingtip rib. The rear starboard wing root bracket was warped. Pilot S. S. Rothwell.
Accident: 6 mi. south of Penticton at 49.23N, 119.33W near Skaha Lake, BC. 06-Aug-1958. The aircraft was caught in a down draft below the crest of mountain at too low an altitude to avoid hitting the terrain. It crashed and burned on a shelf on the lower levels of a mountain on the east shore of Skaha Lake opposite Kaleden whilst searching for a wanted murderer. Pilot S/Sgt S S Rothwell, and engineer Special Constable J.E.R. Cormier and constable R.W. Green killed and aircraft written off. (There is extensive information about the crash on the Department of Transport file, lots of information about mountain flying and priorities in the cockpit relating to this accident.)
Total hours since new as recorded in Department of Transport archives
28-Jun-1950 354 hours
unk-May-1951 802 hours
08-Jun-192 1,447 hours
01-Apr-1953 1,802 hours
11-Mar-1954 2,316 hours
20-Feb-1957 3,829 hours
25-Mar-1958 4,256 hours
• CF-FHW Canx by Transport Canada, 22-Aug-1958
Note: Named “Wren” with the RCMP, associated with the last letter of the registration.
• Fate Unknown •