De Havilland BC DH.95 Flamingo

The De Havilland BC DH.95 Flamingo was a seventeen passenger piston-engined passenger airliner built by De Havilland British Columbia between 1939 and 1948, identical to the DH.95 type of DHBC's parent company, De Havilland Aircraft of the United Kingdom.

= Description = Unlike previous DHBC aircraft, which made use of engines designed and built in British Columbia by Hoffar Aero Engines, for the BC-built DH.95B Flamingo DHBC opted to obtain a licence to manufacture the Bristol Perseus XVI 9-cylinder radial engines used on the British-made Flamingo, because Hoffar's equivalent, the HLR-9A Algol, produced only 450 hp - less than half of the Perseus' 930 hp. With their attention focussed on the new Petrel and Tern series of V-12s, Hoffar were uninterested in developing the Algol further, so DHBC contracted its licence to build the Perseus out to Ford of BC. These engines were built at Ford's Burnaby plant and were delivered to Sea Island by rail.

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Incidents

 * 29 November 1944: Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flamingo VB-PAF (c/n C192/1941), operating as Flight 073 from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to Blaenau, crashed on final approach in a heavy snowstorm, after the white-out conditions caused the pilot to misjudge his approach. The aircraft burned and was written off; four of the fifteen passengers and crew were killed, including the pilot and co-pilot.

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