This Otter was delivered to the RCAF December 17, 1954 and ended it's Air Force days as a VIP transport. Withdrawn and sold by Crown Assets Disposal in 1981, it spent many of the following years being worked on and in storage. Bought by Kenmore Air in April 2014, they finally brought it back to life with a re-build and turbine conversion in 2015.

Delivered to Miron et Frères Ltée in 1954, this Otter would stay in the Province of Quebec until 2007. In 1999, the aircraft began development and certification flying for the Orenda 600 engine. A 600 HP piston V-8 power plant from Orenda Engines was installed and certified in 2000. Orenda decided to concentrate on government contracts after September 11, 2001 and the OE600 project was cancelled in 2003. The Otter sat without an engine until bought by Harbour Air and moved to Vancouver, BC in 2007. After refurbishment and turbine engine conversion, it entered service in 2008

Ex CF-MPP. Operating a schedule from Seattle Lake Union via Kenmore Harbor.

Delivered to the US Navy September 28, 1956, this is one of six Otters that flew their first 10 years with VX-6 in the Antarctic. 144670 flew the last US Navy Otter flight in the Antarctic January 23, 1966. It was then transferred to the Naval Test Pilot's School at Patuxent River NAS, MD where it has been based ever since. It is the last Otter in military service in the world.

Another former US Army Otter delivered as 57-6114 February 12, 1958. Based in Europe until 1969, it was removed from Army inventory in June 1975. Registered N5325G, the aircraft served with the Civil Air Patrol, Island Airlines and Griffin Flying Service before coming to Canada in 1993, registered C-FQND. It has received a Vazar turbine conversion before coming to Vancouver Island Air in December 2013.

Originally delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1954, this Otter was donated to the Indian Air Force in 1963. Returning to Canada in 1993, it was bought by Kenmore Air in 1995 to be rebuilt and converted to turbine by 1999.

History going back to 1960 as US Army 59-2224, C-GEND sports a version of Harbour Air's new color scheme with a sunburst over the mountains gracing the tail.

Originally destined for Ontario Provincial Air Service, CF-ODH was delivered to A. Fecteau Transport Aérienne Ltée December 29, 1952. This is the oldest Otter still flying and has kept the original registration although the format changed in the '70s. Coming to Harbour Air in 2000, they re-engined it with a Vazar turbine kit in 2002. This new Sesquicentennial Scheme was applied for 2017's 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation.

Delivered to the US Army June 1959 as 58-1715, Otter number 333 was struck off strength December 1976. Registered to the Civil Air Patrol's Pacific Region as N5352G until January 1980, it was refurbished in Canada as C-GBNJ and flown by Parsons Airways for the next nine years. It was sold to Ketchem Air Service as N567KA (note non-standard hyphen) and here in Vancouver for servicing. Flying in Alaska with several airlines re-registered as N336AK, it receiving a Texas Turbine conversion in 2003.

DHC-3 Otter ex Canadian Air Force 9402. Landing back at its Friday Harbor base with cargo.

Built in November 1963 as CF-ROD for Rodair. Current in 2013 flying in Alaska as N9758N.

Lake Hood, situated right next to the international airport of Anchorage, must be one of the world's busiest seaplane bases. I spent a very enjoyable afternoon just sitting here, feet dangling in the water and the camera at hand, with all sorts of seaplanes speeding along every few minutes. Pictured here is Otter N234KA, which was still a "real" Otter back then. It was converted to a Turbo Otter during the 1990s, and became C-GHAR in 2002.

Ex Qantas VH-EAX. Operated by TAA in Papua New Guinea from 1960 to 1966. Named "Kundiawa". Sold in Canada as C-FYLZ in 1969.