de Havilland Beaver On Floats Model Airplane

 

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de Havilland Beaver On Floats Model Airplane

Item#: 80025

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Wing Span: 17.45"
Length: 11.83"

Manufacturer: de Havilland Aircraft Company

 

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de Havilland Beaver On Floats Model Airplane

Introducing Factory Direct Model’s custom made de Havilland Beaver On Floats Model Airplane. This de Havilland Beaver On Floats Model was hand crafted using the finest Philippine Mahogany and sealed to last for generations. From our collection of blueprints, reference materials and customer’s photographs Factory Direct Models master artisans hand crafted this famous de Havilland Beaver On Floats into an amazingly detailed Display Model.

This de Havilland Beaver On Floats Airplane Model comes with a customized detachable stand, a personalized inscriptions plaque and a laminated customer’s Company Logo Minnesota Seaplane Pilot Association that adds magnificence into this detailed Display Model.

de Havilland Beaver On Floats History:

The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is a single engined, high wing, propeller-driven, STOL aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada, primarily known as a bush plane. It is used for cargo and passenger hauling, aerial application (crop dusting and aerial topdressing), and has been widely adopted by armed forces as a utility aircraft. The U.S. Army Air Corps purchased several hundred and nine DHC-2s are still in service with the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary (Civil Air Patrol) for search and rescue. A Royal New Zealand Air Force Beaver supported Sir Edmund Hillary's expedition to the South Pole. Over 1,600 Beavers were produced until 1967 when the original line shut down, and today the aircraft is in such demand that there is a steady market for finding surplus examples in air museums and rebuilding them.

The Beaver is one of the most famous bush planes in the world. Due to this success, the Royal Canadian Mint commemorated the Beaver on a special edition Canadian quarter in November 1999.

A Beaver, operated by Freebird Wildnerness Tours, at Airport Niederrhein in Germany

In the immediate post-war era, de Havilland Canada management turned to the civilian market for continued work, aware that military contracts were unlikely to guarantee business. the company had recently hired Punch Dickins, a famous bush pilot, as Director of Sales, and he began an extensive program of collecting requests from other pilots in order to understand what they needed in a new aircraft. Almost without variation, the pilots asked for tremendous extra power and STOL performance in a design that could be easily fitted with wheels, skis, or floats. When de Havilland engineers noted that this would result in poor cruise performance, one pilot replied "You only have to be faster than a dog sled". Other suggestions were seemingly mundane but important in the bush plane world; for instance, full-sized doors were installed on both sides of the aircraft so it could be easily loaded no matter which side of a dock it tied up on.

Harrison Ford owns a DHC-2 Beaver (N28S), and has called it his favourite among his entire fleet of private aircraft. The United States military continues to operate two DHC-2s at the United States Naval Test Pilot School, where they are used to instruct students in the evaluation of lateral-directional flying qualities and to tow gliders.