Identify The Floats

I hate to see an aircraft as historic/useful/valuable as a Beaver wrecked in the middle of nowhere with no chance of salvage.

You might want to pass any photos (especially if it shows the identity of the aircraft) to Neil Aird’s excellent website:

http://www.dhc-2.com/current_cover_page.htm

He’s keeping a photo history of every Beaver built.

I’d forgotten about those Beavers in the Falkland Is the last time I was in contact with Neil., wonder if he kenw about them? I don’t think so from what I remember on his website.

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As promised the other photos.

VP-FAL(2) was a Beaver with c/n 1666

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As promised the other photos.

Regards the Falklands beavers,
they are all gone, recovered, and destroyed beyond recovery.
This was determined after a thorough search not too long ago.

There is nothing specific to a DHC-2 left there, although the floats may still be in use as shown.

oh and the floats as shown are a stock set of Edo 4930`s to answer the original question.

I hate to see an aircraft as historic/useful/valuable as a Beaver wrecked in the middle of nowhere with no chance of salvage.

You might want to pass any photos (especially if it shows the identity of the aircraft) to Neil Aird’s excellent website:

http://www.dhc-2.com/current_cover_page.htm

He’s keeping a photo history of every Beaver built.

I would be interested in more pictures .

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I eventually found these as promised. the Floats could well be those in the original photo.
Both photos were taken in early April 1984 whilst i was on a walk around Stanley Harbour – nothing better to do on my one day off.
The loaction was by a shed (hangar?) owned by FIGAS (Falkland Islands Government Air service). Close by was a Huey in FIGAS colours but without the rotors fitted.
At the head of the harbour sound at Moody Brook another scrap yard possesed a Huey and another Beaver. I have the photos if anyones interested.

If I said to you ‘mercury barometers’ and ‘aeroplanes’, I would be interested in your reaction..

Hedgehopping is my instant thought 😮

Thanks to all for the contributions. I’ll pass them, and any more that follow onto the owner of the image

Moggy

I’ll have to look out my photos I took around Stanley Harbour in 84. I know they contain shots of a dismantled FIGAS Beaver with floats alongside it near the FIGAS shed.
At the head of the harbour at Moody Brook there was also a bit of a scrapyard with the remains of Argentinian airacraft (Puccara?) and a landing craft.

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Moggy,
You should know that ‘things’ in The Falklands did not entirely go ‘according to plan’ (was there, saw it, suffered from the admin c**k-ups). It might be added that after the ‘Armed Conflict’ (not a WAR please note!!!) was over The Locals just wanted us (the UK military) to go away and leave them as they had been before. They couldn’t realise that ‘it’ was never, ever, going to be as it was before!
Seaborne supplies (after the cessation of hostilities) were – to a large extent – somewhat ‘difficult’! The UK said “We’ve sent it”, but we couldn’t find it on the dockside!! It was not until a fairly large Lady Major (from whatever Army branch) arrived and took the problem (and, it is reliably informed) some persons by the scruff of the neck that things improved!
However, the precise location of yr indigenous Fordson tractor, and its load escapes me! There were so many!
Maybe a Puccara cockpit awaiting shipment from Pebble Island?
“Things” were shipped (by air, or sea) in, or out, of the Falklands Is which, by modern standards, would have given Loady’s (or their navy counterparts) the conniptions!!! If I said to you ‘mercury barometers’ and ‘aeroplanes’, I would be interested in your reaction..
Rgds
Resmoroh

At last – proof that the floatplane Gannet did exist in the war 😀

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=66898

Realistically it would be from something like a Beaver. There have been Beavers on floats in the Falklands and perhaps this one here has to be a strong contender?

Noorduyn Norseman perhaps? There had been Noorduyn Norseman down that way as well. Looks to be a similar shape…..hard to tell from the one pic

Didn’t the local government have a Beaver that was wrecked in the war?

Don’t know if it was a floatplane, but it looks about right (perhaps even a bit big). Anyone have a Twin Otter or Otter on floats down there?

Or else a piece of the secret Dagger project or the ultimate Sea Harrier.