DHC-2 BEAVER

HOOKS’ TOURS Rugged and versatile, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver first flew on 16 August 1947 and is still going strong. More than half of the 1,692 built are still flying Mike Hooks began his aviation photography career in 1945 with a simple box camera, moving on to an Ensign folding camera in about 1948, and later to a Voigtlander Vito B. He converted to colour in the 1950s, and went on to build one of the UK’s most