DND photo

C-GUOG starting up for the next leg of her ferry flight to Canada from Africa. Now registered as N662AV. Ex 5A-DDC, TT-EAH, 5N-EVS, TJ-CQE

Built in 1978 as C-GNOF. It was delivered to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) with registration "514", operating for the China Geological Survery in Beijing. Reregistered B-3502 and to China Flying Dragon (in Harbin) in January 1992. Exported to the USA in December 2004 as N565DH. Again exported in August 2005, to the Mission Aviation Fellowship in Papua New Guinea as P2-MFT. Parked at Cairns in August 2019 and to Nordic Seaplanes in December 2019. Initially scheduled to become OY-NSB, but registered HB-LWB in June 2021 (due to operating on the AOC of Zimex). In January 2024, the operator got its own (Maltese) AOC and the aircraft has been operating as 9H-OCEAN from February 2024.

"Gusti" seen here sitting engineless on the ramp at Sentani Airport, Jayapura. Trigana Air Service used to operate a wide fleet of DHC-6 Twin Otters to support logistics and pax movement to remote runways in the interior of Papua. PK-YPX served with Trigana from 2002 until 2020, when it reached the maximum flight hours/cycle allowed by the manufacturer. It has been put into storage since then.

Having just uploaded a picture of this frame in its current guise as N48RF, here she is a mere 43 years earlier...

Rolled out in January 1982, this Twin Otter was delivered to MAS Malaysian Airline System as 9M-MDJ in February. It was wrecked landing at Limbang airport, a small field built in 1963 by the British Army. It over ran the end of the runway and crashed into a drainage ditch seriously damaging the forward fuselage on January 8, 1998. A new airport was built after 2000 at Limbang. The aircraft wreckage went to Dodson International Parts until moved to Calgary, Canada and rebuilt sometime during 2019 - 23. Registered C-FDYL in January 2024, Harbour Air put it in service in June.