This was my ride today

"Big Bubba Ray" (eganward01) 07/01/2014 at 21:56 • Filed to: None

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Fucking float plane. I believe it was a de Havilland? Could be totally wrong, though.

I'm with my family and we took his float plane to a fly in fishing lodge in Kenora, Ontario.

Internet is extremely limited up here so I won't be around much, if at all. Take it easy, Oppo.

The Transporter > Big Bubba Ray 07/01/2014 at 22:00

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Turbo Otter!

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > The Transporter 07/01/2014 at 22:00

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edit: I thought it was a Beaver, but you're right it's an Otter. I was thinking of the Twin Otter and got confu-sed.

CRider > Big Bubba Ray 07/01/2014 at 22:01

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Big Bubba Ray's Big Bad Boatplane.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Big Bubba Ray 07/01/2014 at 22:01

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And here's a Turbo Otter after a no good, very bad landing. Probably with the wheels down by mistake.

Big Bubba Ray > The Transporter 07/01/2014 at 22:05

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Yes! That's what it was, thanks!

The Transporter > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 07/01/2014 at 22:06

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Nope, this is a Beaver:

This is a Turbine Otter:

The Transporter > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 07/01/2014 at 22:08

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Ah, the Twotter.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > The Transporter 07/01/2014 at 22:08

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Yep, late night confusement. When I was a f/t instructor, some rich dude had a Turbine Beaver on floats at my home 'drome. The name stuck in my head.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > The Transporter 07/01/2014 at 22:12

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Saw those fly into St Bart's when I was flying for a charter company a few years back. They're all over the Caribbean. Actually recently went back into production as an updated model.

The Transporter > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 07/01/2014 at 22:28

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Can't kill the Twotter.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > The Transporter 07/01/2014 at 22:33

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No, but you can time out the airframe. Viking Air is gonna sell a whole bunch of those new ones.

Wildstar > Big Bubba Ray 07/02/2014 at 16:49

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Googled the reg number, well, letters in this case...

C-GYKO - de Havilland DHC-3T Turbo-Otter - River Air

operated without titles

c/n 287 - built in 1958 - converted to a Garrett TPE-331 turbine

at Kenora SPB/Ontario

Big Bubba Ray > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 07/08/2014 at 00:41

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Really late here, forgive me cause I didn't have much internet in Canada haha BUT

The first owner of the lodge where I was staying was flying in one night and didn't keep his floats up when he was landing. It was night and the water looked like a mirror. He came in hot, crashed the plane and drowned. Pretty gnarly. His wife made arrangements for his body to be pulled out of the lake and let the plane sink back down to the bottom after he was removed. The plane is still down there, 30ish years after the accident.

I had goosebumps fishing that lake after hearing that story haha