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C-GBPE Twin Otter 100

C-GBPE

DHC 6 Twin Otter 100

Rocky Mountain Aircraft

Built 1966

C/N 21

Still with Maldivian Air Taxi titles, with whom it was leased to from Kenn Borek. Despite being elderly, it is quite probable it could yet still fly

 

UPDATE MAY 2024

Trucked to Lethbridge AB in Nov 2021 for restoration by the Time Air Historical Society. Was the DHC demonstrator and displayed at he 1967 Paris Air Salon, then leased to Midwest Airlines of Winnipeg between Jun - Nov that year. Delivered to Trans-East Airlines operating as Clark Aviation as N1370T in Jan 1970 and sold to Chartina in May 1971. Sold to Manex Services as CF-QHC in Oct 1978 and joined Time Air the following month. Sold to Northward Airlines in Apr 1973 and repossessed by the trustee upon their bankruptcy in Mar 1980. Bought by Kenn Borek Air in the Oct and a long career began. Summer leased to Air Shefferville in 1983, then Harbour Air every year between 1986 - 1995 except 1994. To Maldivian Air Taxi as 8Q-QHC in Nov 1995 and returned to KBA Jul 1997 - Jan 1998.and finally returned as C-GBPE in Sep 2009 and retired permanently by the following summer.

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Uploaded on August 11, 2021
Taken on July 30, 2021