List of de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operators
| List of de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operators | |
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| A Canadian Government Twin Otter in 2005 |
The Twin Otter was and is used by dozens of airlines and militaries around the world, and was produced in three main series (100, 200, 300) until 1988. As of 2006, over 40 years after design and manufacturing work on the original DHC-6 began, more than 500 of this aircraft were still flying. In that year Viking Air purchased the type certificate for the DHC-6 and announced its intention to offer a new build Series 400 Twin Otter.
Current civil operators
281 Twin Otters were in airline service in 2016 with 26 new aircraft on order: 112 in North/South America, 106 in Asia Pacific & Middle East (16 orders), 38 in Europe (10 orders) and 25 in Africa.[1]
| Operator | in service | 400 Viking | orders |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Madagascar | 3 | ||
| Air Seychelles | 2 | 4 | |
| Airkenya Express | 3 | ||
| Regional Air Services | 1 | ||
| SonAir | 8 | ||
| Star Aviation | 2 | ||
| Tunisavia | 2 | ||
| Air Born | 2 | ||
| Air Calin | 2 | ||
| Air Kiribati | 1 | ||
| Air Loyauté | 3 | 2 | |
| Air Moorea | 2 | 2 | |
| Air Vanuatu | 2 | ||
| AIRFAST Indonesia | 3 | 4 | |
| Aviastar Mandiri | 6 | ||
| Blue Bird Aviation | 2 | ||
| Daily Air | 2 | ||
| Dimonim Air | 2 | ||
| Fiji Link | 3 | ||
| First Flying Co Ltd | 1 | ||
| Maldivian | 7 | ||
| Meiya Air | 5 | ||
| MNK Aviation | 1 | ||
| Nepal Airlines | 2 | ||
| Polynesian Airlines | 3 | ||
| Solomon Airlines | 2 | ||
| Southwest Air | 1 | ||
| Spirit Avia Sentosa | 3 | ||
| Tara Air | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Trans Maldivian Airways | 40 | 3 | 2 |
| Trigana Air | 2 | ||
| WinAir | 5 | ||
| AeroGeo | 6 | 4 | |
| Aurora | 3 | ||
| Chukotavia | 4 | ||
| European Coastal Airlines | 4 | ||
| Isles of Scilly Skybus | 4 | ||
| Loganair | 1 | 2 | |
| Nordic Seaplanes | 1 | ||
| Norlandair | 3 | ||
| SeaBird Airlines | 6 | ||
| Zimex Aviation | 10 | 1 | |
| Aerolinea de Antioquia | 2 | ||
| Aerovias DAP | 1 | ||
| Air Antilles Express | 2 | 1 | |
| Air Inuit | 7 | ||
| Air Labrador | 5 | ||
| Air Panama | 2 | ||
| Air Tindi | 5 | ||
| Aklak Air | 1 | ||
| Alberta Central Airways | 2 | ||
| ARM Aviacion | 2 | ||
| Berry Aviation | 3 | ||
| Blue Wing Airlines | 2 | ||
| Cayman Airways Express | 2 | ||
| Grand Canyon Airlines | 15 | ||
| Gum Air | 2 | ||
| InterCaribbean Airways | 1 | ||
| Kenn Borek Air | 11 | ||
| LADE | 5 | ||
| NatureAir | 2 | ||
| North Wright Airways | 2 | ||
| Osprey Wings | 2 | ||
| Provincial Airlines | 6 | ||
| SAP | 1 | ||
| Seaborne Airlines | 2 | ||
| Servicios Aereos de Los Andes | 1 | ||
| South Nahanni Airways | 1 | ||
| Summit Air | 3 | ||
| SVG Air | 6 | ||
| Transportes Aereos Petroleros (TAPSA) | 1 | ||
| Transwest Air | 4 | ||
| Westcoast Air | 2 | ||
| West Wind Aviation | 4 | ||
| Winair (Sint Maarten) | 4 |
Historical civil operators
♠ original operators
Former operators are listed where possible.
- Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) ♠[2] - former operator
- AirWest Airlines (Canada)[5]
- Athabaska Airlines ♠[2]
- Austin Airways[6]
- Bradley Air Services - (now First Air)[7]
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- Calm Air International[2]
- Georgian Bay Airlines ♠[2]
- Harbour Air[2] - current operator of the seaplane version
- Kenn Borek Air[2]
- Labrador Airways[2]
- Midwest Airlines ♠[2]
- Ministry of Natural Resources (Ontario) ♠[2] - forest firefighting
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- NorOntair [8]
- Northwood Airlines ♠[2]
- Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) - former operator
- Ptarmigan Airways[2] - former operator (merged into First Air)
- Sabourin Lake Airways[2]
- Sander Geophysics[9]
- Transport Canada - former operator, 15 aircraft[10]
- Time Air [11]
- Wardair Canada ♠[2] - former operator
- Air Alpes ♠[2]
- Air Calédonie[16]
- Air Caraïbes - a DHC-6-300 crashed in March 2001 near Saint Barthélemy airport[17]
- Air Guadeloupe[18]
- Air Polynesie (now Air Tahiti)[19]
- Aeronaves de Mexico♠[2] and successor Aeromexico
- Transportes Aereos Terrestes♠[2]
- Pakistan International Airlines - former operator
- Surinam Airways - former operator[citation needed]
- Air Commuter ♠[2] - former operator
- Air New England[29]
- Air North[30]
- Alaska Aeronautical Industries (AAI)[31]
- Air Wisconsin ♠[2] - former operator
- Crown Airways[32]
- Frontier Airlines[33]
- Golden West Airlines[34]
- Hawaii Jet-Air ♠[2] - former operator
- Northern Consolidated Airlines (NCA) ♠[2] - former operator (acquired by Wien Air Alaska which in turn continued to operate these DHC-6 aircraft).
- Pilgrim Airlines ♠[2] - former operator (acquired by Business Express)
- Rocky Mountain Airways[35]
- Trans East International ♠[2] - former operator
Military and government operators
Including police users.
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- Royal Canadian Air Force (formerly Canadian Forces)[2] - 4 CC-138s (DHC-6-300s) - Operated by 440 Transport Squadron in Yellowknife, NT
- 2 Ecuadorian Air Force (TAME)[2]
- 2 Ethiopian Air Force loaned from Army[2]
- ? (retired) Jamaica Defence Force[2]
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- Royal Norwegian Air Force[2] (Retired from active service)
- Panamanian Public Forces 1[2] (Army until 1988)
- National Air and Naval Service of Panama[38][39]
- Paraguayan Air Force (retired)[2]
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- Peruvian Air Force[2] (12 series -400 recently purchased + 3 legacy series -300)
- Sudanese Air Force - one photo survey aircraft operated by Sudan Airways for the air force.[2]
- Uganda Police Force Air Wing [2]
References
Notes
- ^ a b "World Airliner Census". Flight Global. 8 August 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au Eastwood 1990, pp.119-147
- ^ Endres 1979, p.370.
- ^ Endres 1979, pp. 385–386.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 21.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 23.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 24.
- ^ Endres 1979, pp. 38–39.
- ^ "Sander Geophysics Acquires Twin Otter Survey Aircraft." Sander Geophysics, 13 July 2010. Retrieved: 23 June 2010.
- ^ Transport Canada (15 March 2015). "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register - Historical Information". Archived from the original on 11 April 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 51.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 76.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 154.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 364.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 116.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 117.
- ^ St Barth: le crash du col de la Tourmente (12 pictures, a trajectory map, a document from french Accident Inquiry Bureau aka BEA)
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 118.
- ^ Endres 1979, pp. 116–117.
- ^ a b Endres 1979, p. 84.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 85.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 441.
- ^ "Our Plane."[permanent dead link] Skykef, 2010. Retrieved: 27 September 2010.
- ^ The Israeli aviation history site, 2012. (Hebrew).
- ^ "lao-air.com". lao-air.com. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 431.
- ^ "Our Fleet". maldivian.aero. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 369.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 197.
- ^ Endres 1979, pp. 197–198.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 200.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 223.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 236.
- ^ Endres 1979, p. 237.
- ^ Twin Otter Crash . . Plane & Pilot (January 2019)
- ^ Hoyle, 2018, p. 12
- ^ Wheeler Flight International 4 August 1979, p. 367
- ^ Sanchez, Alejandro (14 February 2017). "Panemanian SENAN acquires air, naval platforms". IHS Jane's 360. Washington, DC. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
- ^ Sanchez, Alejandro (9 January 2018). "Panama receives new helicopters, aircraft". IHS Jane's 360. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ "Vietnamese Navy Orders DHC-6 Twin-Otter 400s." Defense Industry Daily, 2010. Retrieved: 15 May 2010.
Bibliography
- Eastwood, Tony; John Roach (1990). Turbo Prop Airliner Production List. The Aviation Hobby Shop. ISBN 0 907178 32 4.
- Endres, Günter G. (1979). World Airline Fleets 1979. Hounslow, UK: Airline Publications and Sales Ltd. ISBN 0-905117-53-0.
- Hoyle, Chris (2018). "World Air Forces 2018". Flight Global. Emmen: RUAG.
- Wheeler, Barry C. (4 August 1979). "World's Air Forces 1979". Flight International. Vol. 116, no. 3672. pp. 333–386.