Turbine-engine workhorse DHC-3 Otter C-GYKO was registered on in 1996 to River Air Ltd. This Otter was delivered to the United States Army in 1958. The Otter was allocated to the US Army Military Academy at WestPoint, New York, where it was to spend the entire of its military career. The mission of the Detachment was the support of training of the WestPoint cadets. The Otter continued in service until April 1973. The same year it entered the storage compounds of the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Centre (MASDC) at Davis-Monthan AFB. Within a year the Otter was sold to a private operator. She substantially damage in a crash at Franklin County Airport, Winchester, Tennessee, on March 17, 1975. In the course of a short field take off, during the initial climb in a left turn, the left wing dropped, the aircraft stalled and crashed back to the ground. The Otter was purchased by Ontario Central Airlines of Winnipeg, who brought the wreck to Winnipeg and rebuilt it with registration C-GYKO. Over the years that followed, ‘Kilo-Oscar’ has been operated by quite a number of Canadian bush carriers. In June 1996 she was finally sold to River Air Ltd of Pistol Lake, Minaki, Ontario. During 2002, the Otter flew down to Salina, Texas where it was converted to turbine power with a Garrett TPE-331 engine.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:00:49 +0000
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