K25 slide scan. Built 1984 as Demonstrator. Leased to Air Atlantic summer 1988. Eastern Australia VH-TQO 1989, leased to Airlines PNG 2005, reregistered VH-QQB. Returned to Queensland Regional 2005, Maroomba Airlines 2006, Skytrans 2015. Had been demonstrated to NFD but eventually lost out against the ATR-42.

Obviously a demonstration visit. Airframe delivered to RCAF as 5320. To Tanzania as JW-9012 in 1971. Photo by: Erkki Voutilainen / Finnish Heritage Agency

Seen landing at a Trade Day at the Farnborough Airshow. I next saw this aircraft four years later when it crashed during the 1984 show.

This aircraft was a De Havilland Canada demonstrator and went on to become 5T-MAW, 9T-CBA and 3D-AIR

DHC-8-300 prototype

Rolled out 3-Jan-1967 and used by DHC as a demonstrator April to June 1967. Leased to Midwest Airlines June to November 1967. To Trans-East Airlines as N1370T, to 20-Nov-1967, Chartina Jan-1970, to Time Air as CF-QHC 08-Sep-1971, to Northward Airlines 02-Apr-1973, re-registered C-FQHC 2-Jan-1975. to Kenn Borek 23-Oct-1980. Leased to a number of airlines including Air Schefferville, Harbour Air, Maldivian Air Taxi as 8Q-QHC. Registered C-GBPE when returned to Kenn Borek 09-Sep-2009. To Rocky Mountain Aircraft 22-Jun-2010. Withdrawn from use and stored from ca June 2010. To Time Air Historical Society 29-Nov-2021 for display at Lethbridge, AB. Photographer unknown

This aircraft was the first Turbo Beaver and served as the engineering prototype for this version.

Scanned from negative.

company demonstrator

A Buffalo in Paris. To Chile as 920 in 1981, but soon lost at Punta Arenas. Photo by: Ad Smits

Company demonstrator.

The prototype Twin Otter

This is the first Dash 7 built and donated to the museum.