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The first time I saw a DHC-2 Beaver in reality was on July 2003 when N930AJ from Beav Air took a night stop in, Coburg, Germany on a journey north . I shot the picture above and some more, see N930AJ Beav Air below .
These pictures appeared first in the spotter section of my now closed Aviation Enthusiast Pages and constitute the base for opening a Beaver page here in this new site. At this oppotunity I took out of my archive the pictures of Beaver N130WA
from Freebird Wilderness Tours, I shot in an airshow in Bamberg , Germany in July 2003 , too.
To add the Beaver to my online collection is justified anyway as, with it´s first flight in August 1947 and service entry in 1948, it is a "child of the fifties" - like me. Furthermore it has an "round"engine, is a bushplane , a plane to my taste . Recollecting my early days of becoming an Aviation Enthusiast , I can state that I was very well aware of the Beaver since my youth . It is listed in my first type-reference books 86 Flugzeugtypen and the Observers Book of Aircraft from 1962 . But the expression of its appearance did not appeal to me as much as that from her bigger sister DHC-3 Otter. I also had a kit from Frog /Triang in the mid 60´s, the boxart of which, as I learned at the time of writing , depicts the British demonstrator G-ALOW ( page 55 in [1] )
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History
According to [2] the prototype DHC-2 Mark I Beaver flew for the first time in August 1947 , and the type certifcate was received on March, 12, 1948. A total o 1,657 mark I production aircraft were delivered. Of these 968 were supplied to the US Arned Forces, under the designation U-6A (originally L-20A). Fourty-six were aquired for service with the British Army as the Beaver AL.Mk 1. Beavers were then in civil and military service in 65 countries. Power Plant: Mark 1: 450 hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior nine cylinder radial air-cooled engine.
A single DHC-2 Mark II was built with a 750 hp Alvis Leonides 502/4 engine and corespondingly improved performance.(see photo p. 104 in [4] ).
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