Monday, December 03, 2007
Steve's "Otter Of The Week"!......by Karl E. Hayes
...."To the shores of Tripoli!" Here is another Otter that barely had a chapter to her life, "expiring in infancy".
All information is from Karl Hayes' "masterful" CD entitled:
De Havilland Canada
DHC-3 OTTER
A HISTORY
CONTACT KARL, CD PRICING and ORDERING INFO - De Havilland DHC-3 OTTER - A HISTORY by Karl E. Hayes
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Otter 231
Otter 231 was delivered to the United States Army on 11th February 1958 with serial 57-6112 (tail number 76112). It was one of sixteen Army Otters delivered from Downsview to Addison, Texas for work to be done on them by the Collins Radio Corporation. Most of these Otters were then assigned to Europe. By 1960 76112 was serving with the 572nd Engineer Platoon, a topographic survey unit, based at Wheelus Air Base, Tripoli, Libya. The Otter crashed one and a quarter miles east of Wheelus Air Base on the night of 11th December 1960 while performing an emergency Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) forced landing due to engine failure from oil starvation. There were no injuries among the two pilots and a full load of passengers, but the Otter was destroyed. It had flown 844 hours 45 minutes in Army service at the time of its destruction.
- by Karl E. Hayes
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So much history that was to be, unfortunately, "unwritten". Too bad.
CONTACT KARL, CD PRICING and ORDERING INFO - De Havilland DHC-3 OTTER - A HISTORY by Karl E. Hayes
All information is from Karl Hayes' "masterful" CD entitled:
De Havilland Canada
DHC-3 OTTER
A HISTORY
CONTACT KARL, CD PRICING and ORDERING INFO - De Havilland DHC-3 OTTER - A HISTORY by Karl E. Hayes
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Otter 231
Otter 231 was delivered to the United States Army on 11th February 1958 with serial 57-6112 (tail number 76112). It was one of sixteen Army Otters delivered from Downsview to Addison, Texas for work to be done on them by the Collins Radio Corporation. Most of these Otters were then assigned to Europe. By 1960 76112 was serving with the 572nd Engineer Platoon, a topographic survey unit, based at Wheelus Air Base, Tripoli, Libya. The Otter crashed one and a quarter miles east of Wheelus Air Base on the night of 11th December 1960 while performing an emergency Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) forced landing due to engine failure from oil starvation. There were no injuries among the two pilots and a full load of passengers, but the Otter was destroyed. It had flown 844 hours 45 minutes in Army service at the time of its destruction.
- by Karl E. Hayes
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So much history that was to be, unfortunately, "unwritten". Too bad.
CONTACT KARL, CD PRICING and ORDERING INFO - De Havilland DHC-3 OTTER - A HISTORY by Karl E. Hayes
