I have just been handed some old copies of Pilot in which one writes about G-DHCB a float Beaver flying in Scotland. What happened to this please? From G-INFO, the CofA hasn’t been renewed since ’97 though the registration is current so presumably the owner is still stumping up the reg fees.
photos from: http://www.dhc-2.com/id566.htm
By: Consul - 2nd February 2006 at 23:11
Unless it’s moved on recently, it’s stored at Lochearnhead near Crief in Scotland. One of my photographs of it there was published in a prior edition of Wrecks & Relics (was it 18th Edition – haven’t got it handy at this moment). When I photographed it there it was beached not far from the seaplane harbour that’s used regularly by Cubs and Cessnas on floats. I had the landowner’s permission to access the site …the problem was that to get to the aircraft I had to cross a field of cattle in which on one side were cows whilst on the other side was a rather large bull – I had to walk between them. Rarely have I felt so vulnerable and intimidated as during that lonely walk. The things we have to do in the interests of aviation!
By: SolentSpotter - 2nd February 2006 at 21:07
I can’t help with what has happened to it but I can Know the photos you have posted are from Calshot around 1992/1993??? As we have some at home from similar angles, all take around the take the Sunderland was being prepared to fly the atlantic.
Happy days Glad I got to see that one fly
Cheers
Matt
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February 2, 2006 at 7:57 pm