CF-FHB-X de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver
(c/n 1)
Here
(above and below) are two de Havilland Canada images of the prototype
Beaver in two of
the three
configurations in which it was demonstrated (the third, of course,
being on skis). The
initial building
of the Beavers resulted in some rather interesting registration
assignments. Since
CF-FHA to FHZ
were all DHC products (mainly Beavers with the odd Chipmunk thrown in)
one
might have suspected that the prototype would have been CF-FHA, and
successive c/ns (other
than "specials" which went to OPAS in the CF-O series, etc) would have
been in sequence. Not so.
CF-FHA, for instance, was
c/n 15. Anyway, this machine is now preserved in the
National Aviation
Museum at
Rockcliffe/Ottawa, Ontario. For a complete history of this
(and almost every other
Beaver built) go to
Neil Aird's fabulous "Beaver Tails" site at: http://www.dhc-2.com/id83.htm