Taxiing out from the seaplane docks in Victoria's Inner Harbour to take off from the more open waters of the Outer Harbour on a scheduled service. Delivered new to Wheeler Airlines in 1956 as CF-IUZ. Flew survey-equipped with Scintrex from 1970 until 1975 as CF-IUZ-X. After service with a number of operators across Quebec as C-FIUZ, joined Harbour Air in 2001 and received a Vazar conversion to PT-6 turbine power before entering service with the fleet as "306".

Making the necessarily steep approach, arriving over the city, to land in Victoria's Outer Harbour. Right wing badly damaged overnight 20/21 February 2020 while moored in Vancouver Harbour, after being struck by a stolen Seair Beaver which itself lost a wing completely.

Nearing the entrance to Nanaimo Harbour and its seaplane docks, after making an evening landing in the bay.

Quebec based Wheeler Airlines was the first to operate this Otter 1956 - circa 1970. Geophysical instrument company Scintrex Limited (an acronym for Scientific Instruments, Research and Exploration) used the aircraft to develop electromagnetic systems for mineral exploration and conduct airborne surveys for notable base metals and uranium exploration. Returned to passenger configuration in 1977, it flew in Quebec with eight airlines until sold to Harbour Air in Vancouver in 2001. With a Vazar turbine conversion the same year, the aircraft is current with Harbour Air at the time of uploading.

Registered to Harbour Air 28 March 2001 and converted to turbine power.

Arriving at Coal Harbour full of passengers. There have been at least two crashes in this aircraft's history.

As I watched IUZ taxi out for departure I was wondering if the passengers or even the pilot knew that 40 years ago it was stranded on a frozen lake in minus 40 degree temps in Canada's Arctic when it was servicing a DEW line station.

Photographed from Stanley Park.

After operating Quebec's northern bush country the previous 24 years, Harbour Air purchased this Otter March 28, 2001. Re-furbished and receiving a turbine engine, it joined their large fleet of float equipped turbine Otters flying the West Coast.