DHC-3 OTTER
The DHC-3 Otter is a single engined, high
wing, propeller-driven,
STOL aircraft conceived to be capable of performing the same roles
as the earlier and highly successful DHC-2
Beaver, but was overall
considerably
larger, the veritable "one-ton truck" (in company
parlance, the Beaver was the "half-ton truck").
Using the same overall configuration the new design incorporated a
longer fuselage, greater span wings, and was much heavier. Seating
in the main cabin is for 10 or 11, whereas the Beaver could seat six.
Power is supplied by a 450kW (600 hp) Pratt & Whitney Wasp radial.
Like the Beaver, the
Otter can be fitted with skis or floats. The Otter
served as the basis for the very successful Twin Otter, which featured
two wing mounted Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprops.
The Otter received Canadian certification in November 1952 and
entered production shortly after. 466 examples were produced between
1951 and 1967. The largest operator was the US Army, other military
users being Australia, Canada and India.
This CD contains three
flight manuals for civil and military variants
of the Otter, plus a nice original company brochure. This CD has been
copied from the original flight manuals and retains any colour pages.
