DeHavilland  DHC-4 Caribou Demonstration and Test Aircraft

 

Newest data is shown in red                 Updated May 14, 2009

 
 

CF-KTK-X (c/n # 1) with short fuselage during its flight test period.  (de Havilland)


 

A demo Caribou (we think its c/n # 2) landing at Fort Rucker, AL sometime between Jan 1, '59 and April 10, '59 (Gordon Stobb)

 

<<< CF-LAN-X (cn # 2) loading Canadian troops location and date unknown. (AOCA Historian Archives)

>>> CF-OYE (c/n #40) on demonstration tour parked at Melsbroek (EBMB) Belguim on June 28, 1964 (Robert Roggeman)

CF-LVA (c/n #9) Used on demo tour one - October 1959 to May 1960. Demo covered Europe, Scandinavia, Middle East, India, South East Asia, Australia and Northern Canada. (DeHavilland)
CF-LVA showing off for the British military at Hatfield (HTF) airport - UK, November 1959.  (Clive Dyball)
<<< CF-LAN (c/n #2) Used on demo tour two -  October to December, 1961. Demo covered Flordia, West Indies and Latin America. (DeHavilland)  Note: this photo has a Maple Leaf tail flag which Richard Goodall said was first approved and flown after February 15, 1965.

>>> CF-OYE (c/n #40) Used on demo tour three - March 1964 to July 1964. Demo covered Alaska, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Middle East, East Africa, Libya, Europe.  Photo location unknown (DeHavilland)

<<< CF-UYM (c/n #250) used for pilot training then registrated as N949GA.

>>> A test model of Caribou is atop a DHC Otter date & location unknown. (DHC)

  

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