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De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:25 am

How many Vietnam Warbird aircraft can land like this in a city park.

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Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:14 pm

A Huey could probably pull it off :lol:
Whats the context of the Caribou photo?

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:35 pm

a Caribou can get in and off in 600' at sea level if there isn't any obstacles.

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:36 pm

For sure the plane is RAAF. Probably one of their demos or exercises. They did some pretty funk stuff with their -4’s.

Sean

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:54 pm

Curious, are there any Caribous still active/flying? Other than the few that PEN Turbo has converted?

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:04 pm

Mick G wrote:Curious, are there any Caribous still active/flying? Other than the few that PEN Turbo has converted?

Cavanaugh flies theirs pretty often

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 3:02 pm

Mick G wrote:Curious, are there any Caribous still active/flying? Other than the few that PEN Turbo has converted?


HARS in Australia operate VH-VBB A4234

Image'Bou Ballet by Errol Cavit, on Flickr

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:41 pm

600'...Ive heard of one of the Australian Army Pc6 Porters landing on a cricket pitch..Thats 22 yards.

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:39 pm

Thomas_Mac wrote:A Huey could probably pull it off :lol:
Whats the context of the Caribou photo?


That's Langley Park in Perth. It's 300' x 3000' so not exactly a challenge for a Caribou!

Periodically, there are general aviation fly-ins at the park.

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:41 pm

Watch the PT-6 version STOL....

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:35 pm

So the best I can tell, there are no Caribous in commercial service other than museum birds and a couple of Turbo Conversions?
Sad to see.....

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:45 pm

I can't tell you about commercial service, but there is one in service on the North side of Atlanta. IIRC, it is based at McCollum. I saw it shooting T&G's at Calhoun, GA a few months back.

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Thu Jan 30, 2020 12:56 am

https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquir ... U&PageNo=1

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Thu Jan 30, 2020 4:31 am

The Cavanaugh example at Addison last October. It was due to be flown back to their other location within a few days.
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DSC_1195 by Jelle Hieminga, on Flickr

Re: De Havilland Canada Caribou

Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:21 am

Here are the ones I use to fly

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