De Havilland BC DH.66 Hercules

The De Havilland BC DH.66 Hercules was a seven-passenger, three-engined airliner built by De Havilland British Columbia in 1929. It was identical in every way to the DH.66 built by DHBC's parent company, De Havilland Aircraft of the United Kingdom, and those built in Australia by De Havilland Australia.

= Description = To differentiate it from those built in the UK and Australia, the British Columbian-built aircraft were designated DH.66B Hercules.

= History =

Incidents

 * 23 October 1941: Privately owned DH.66 VB-SPB (c/n C7/1929) crashed in a storm attempting to land at Chilliwack; pilot and single passenger killed.


 * 16 May 1949: Privately owned DH.66 VB-PDV (c/n C4/1929) was damaged beyond repair in a runway excursion during the landing run-out in heavy rain.

= Operators =

= Production = Only four were built in BC, all for the BC branch of Imperial Airways, which in 1931 were spun off into a BC-based subsidiary called British Columbia Air Lines, which was in turn renamed Inter-Dominion Air Lines in 1936. All four were sold to private buyers in 1937; the last was grounded in 1976.