One of the oldest Guardia Nacional aircraft still in existence, it deserves it place in the aeronautical museum in Maracay. By its serial, it can be derived that the aircraft was built in 1967 and was the 8th aircraft taken on strength by the national guard.

Cessna A185F, C-FCDD, is photographed shortly after landing in Vancouver Harbour on April 5, 1977. Airspan Flight Charter Ltd. operated DHC-2 Beavers (C-GASF, CF-CDT, CF-GCY) and Cessna seaplanes between 1974-1978 in the Vancouver area from bases at YVR and a dock on Commissioner Street at the east end of Vancouver harbour. This Cessna was operated by W.B. Management Ltd. of Burnaby, BC between October 1980 and February 1998, when it was cancelled from the Canadian civil aircraft register. The Airspan name was then adapted by new helicopter company established in BC the early 1980s.

This Cessna A185E was imported to Canada in 1971 and was part of the fleet of Central Mountain Air Services in July 1983 when I flew in it from the floatplane base at Tyhee Lake to Fredrikson Lake to work on a mineral exploration project for Gerlie Gold. Our helicopter-accessible tent camp in the mountains was next to an old wooden prospectors cabin and much to my surprise the yard containing parts salvaged one the decades from the wreck of Junkers J.13, CF-ALX which crashed at nearby McConnell Lake on July 23, 1933; Most of CF-ALX was salvaged by WCAM in 1981. Now in the Technikmuseum Berlin.

Registered to Coral Key Air (Brookhaven, NY) since July 2003.

Built in 1972. Still current on the register in 2020.

Aircraft under repair

Built in 1971 and Colorado based in 2023. These aircraft took part in the annual convention which saw about 60 of the type show up at Penticton.

The photo was taken at Otis lake which is part of Saint-Felix-d'Otis.