De Havilland Canada (Hardback)
Imprint: Key Publishing
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781802822458
Published: 7th November 2022
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Over the years, de Havilland Canada has manufactured a number of remarkable commercial aircraft: the Beaver (considered the ultimate bush plane, against which every other bush plane is measured), Otter, Twin Otter, Dash 7 and Dash 8. It also developed the unique Buffalo and Caribou military transports, some of which ended up in airline operations. From floatplane operations in Canada, Alaska and the Pacific and up-country flying in Twin Otters in Africa and elsewhere, to glacier operations with the Turbo Otter, Dash 7s in Greenland and operations with major airlines worldwide, these aircraft have been used all around the world in a variety of different roles. By combining history, facts and figures with anecdotes, commentary and quotes, this book, which is illustrated with over 200 stunning photographs, celebrates these legendary aircraft.
This is a very readable book... Authoritative feedback from those in Canada who are “in the know” gives the book a thumbs-up.
de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School Association
THE STORY OF de Havilland Canada (DHC) is a perennially fascinating one, and is entertainingly told by the always readable Christopher Buckley.
The Aviation Historian Jan 2023 Issue No.42
There is a lot of good, new material here, both factually and photographically.
There are many fascinating snippets of information: there are over 800 Beavers still flying (almost half the number built) despite production having finished in 1967, Harrison Ford is the happy owner of one, an eBeaver is under development.
Guy Warner FlyingInIreland.com
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About Christopher Buckley
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY’s career has included time working for an airline in Martinique, French West Indies, commercial and management positions with de Havilland Canada in Toronto, and senior management positions with Airbus in Toulouse. He has served as a director on the boards of several companies, including Nordic Aviation Capital in Denmark, Emerald Airlines in Ireland, and Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) in Germany. Passionate about anything aeronautical for as long as he can remember, Buckley has written some 25 feature articles for Propliner magazine, often about his many adventures in old propeller-driven airliners that are still flying in remote parts of the world. His book Soviet-Era Airliners was published in 2021. In 2019, he was honoured by the French government when he was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite for services to France.
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