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Banner photo: HK-1018 (93) "Wash Needed" - Chris Van Way © 27 March 2023 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FOER (1671TB41) "More Yellow" Thunder Bay, Ontario - Sheldon D. Benner © 10 August 1977 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives

Banner photo: N772AE (498) "Happy trail to you . . . " Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - Fred Wallis © 25 March 2023 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: CF-OEX (1684TB52) "May Day" Toronto Island Airport - CYTZ, Ontario - Sheldon D. Benner © 03 May 1969 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives

Banner photo: CF-OEX (1684TB52) "CNE Airshow Time" Toronto Island Airport - CYTZ, Ontario - Sheldon D. Benner © 31 August 1969 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives

Banner photo: C-FOEY (1686TB54) "No longer yellow" - Kenneth I. Swartz © 10 April 1978 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives

Banner photo: CF-OET (1674TB44) "Tea Time" Toronto Island airport seaplane base, Ontario - Sheldon D. Benner © July 1971 - Michael J. Ody Collection - Aird Archives

Banner photo: N2749 (285) "Snow gone", Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - Jens Brokuf © 25 May 2022 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: N3456L (488) "Float Season bekons" , Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - Jens Brokuf © 23 May 2022 - Aird Archives

Banner photo: N493K (1155) "KATMAI critter", Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska - Jens Brokuf © 23 May 2022 - 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 #89

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 - 2023 (Wow! - 37 Years - Has it been that long?) - Saw my first Beaver in 1961

Latest update: 31 March 2023utc

* For regular visitors . . . this is the page to BOOKMARK *

The Great Beaver Photo Hunt countdown 1,692 built
Only 316 photos left to find!

Can you help?

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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I thrive on feedback, and am happy to add specific requests! Send an e-mail suggestion. Replace the "at" with @

nca "at" DHC-2.com

Approximate number of DHC-2 images on the website, as of 28 February 2023.

Thanks again to Ian Macintosh for the stats.

15,152

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 4,579 pages and at least 21,784 or so different images!!

(Not counting the close to three thousand of my once daily "Toonies").

About 15,191 of Beaver aircraft (my running tally - which is anything containing parts of a Beaver! - Hence different from Ian's Monthly Tally).

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

My sincere thanks to my hard working research collegue, Ian S. Macintosh.

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, Ben Cogger, and many others. LINK

For new visitors - How to navigate this Web Site Click here .

Type in the item you wish to search for (e.g. Registration)

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© COPYRIGHT NOTICE ©

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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Our own global community - Visitors from 176 countries!

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

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March 2023

additions

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ARCHIVED PAGES

I created one of these every single day . .

. . .when I possibly could - I am taking an extended break in 2023.

Nine years!

Over 2,800 drawings.

Trainworks

Now has 91 images.

AirHistory.net - My images

530 photos.

Latest Blog Update

09 March 2023

Check out Neil's

Absolutely nothing to do with Beavers !

Aird Aviation Archives

4,647 images now!

My regular INSTAGRAM account

No Beavers !

For the rebuilders

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35 added in

March 2023

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 Ian Macintosh and Neil Aird.

SOME FAVOURITE TYPES FROM

AIRD AVIATION ARCHIVES

Wondering what may be next?

Connies & Sabres

DC-6 / C-118

(6)

DC-7

(19)

Set your screen to 125% for nice big pictures!
1101

N67206

1684TB52

CF-OEX

498

N772AE

1671TB41

C-FOER

93

HK-1018

488

N3456L

285

N2749

1674TB44

CF-OET

261

N215TS

1686TB54

C-FOEY

1639

C-GUJU

1140

N123JL

261

N215TS

840

N730A

1155

N493K

428

N108KS

1333

N677TX

996

N65223

1457

XP807

822

C-FODO

136

VH-AAY

1040

N671JT

489

N67671

995

N995SP

1597

N99NL

1563

VH-BSY

1477

VH-HAQ

1451

N501J

2000SC

N159AK

1601

N157AK

824

N8190Y

489

N67671

1525TB1

CF-PSM-X

389

N91285

1411

VH-AAX

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If you enjoy this site, we do need your support every now and then. 

A small contribution to the 2023 Beaver Hat Campaign is most welcome ;-)

It's your support, through donations, make this website possible. Thank You!

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Meanwhile, enjoy your free (downloadable PDF) DHC-2.COM calendar pages.

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

This was the 18th Year of the calendar. The 224th image. Good grief - that's a lot!

• Photo: Bruce W. Gowans © August 1985 •

March 2023

(For private use only please)

Calendar Pages Retrospective

Thank you for supporting DHC-2.COM, I really do apppreciate it.

Remember, it's your help that keeps the web site going.

DHC-3archive.com

Honouring the de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter family - Turbine and Piston, with roughly 1,905 images so far.

• Visitors so far - 137,780 since our roll-out back on 04 December 2015 • Note: THIS COUNTER STOPPED WORKING ;-( on 03 October 2022.

Current counter: 62,075 only active since 26 April 2018.

New listing: C-FMPM (62) 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?

This original format DHC-6 Twin Otter website is gradually being refreshed by Neil & Ian!

Adding additional photos, every now and then.

We do this just for our own amusement and edification - you are most welcome join us, browse, and of course, hopefully, contribute.

This layout and concept are consistant with that of DHC-2.COM and DHC-3archive.com our two major websites.

Over 318,115 unique visits logged since we began. (Hi Erik - how's tricks?)

February 2023 - 136 months online!

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

At least 5,173 images added. Maybe you have some photos to contribute?

e-mail: twotter "at" cogeco.ca

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.

Aird Aviation Archives

Some nostalgic airport visits and images, after sixty-six years of "watching planes" adventures 1957 - 2023.

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

"Memorable Magic Moments"

www.dhc-2.com

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

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

THE IMMORTAL BEAVER

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

Maybe you should watch it again!

Be one of over 1.8 million who have

seen this documentary.

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

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

GREAT NEWS ! 

Danie's latest book has been published (07 February 2022). Available for sale around the world on Amazon.

SELLING WELL Have you got yours? Contact Danie and she can send one to you directly from Amazon with no shipping charges.

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 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 - 2023

My Dear Old School