Seen Over Your House Today

[jcf]

Pilatus PC-12, and it was fairly low.

[kitbasher]

I'm extremely lucky to have a job that occasionally takes me overseas, generally to nice places, and none nicer than Canada.  I've just come back from three weeks in British Colombia (1 x work, 2 x hols), in which a bazillion floatplanes were seen, I nearly got a trip in a Grumman Goose (and did get a brilliant trip in a Turbo Otter), visited the Comox Air Force Museum and was left unsupervised in BC Shavers (Victoria's top model shop).  All courtesy of a well-planned route, pure fluke and the wonderful Mrs Kitbasher.  Who may have been swayed by a slap up Significant Birthday dinner in a VERY swanky location.  Anyway, some pics:

Victoria Harbour:

Victoria Harbour ATC on top of the West Coast Canadian Coastguard building, plus, from nearby - can anyone identify the class of vessel?  Seen cruising down the Juan de Fuca Strait.


Tofino Cessna 185s and a Beaver:


Port Hardy, where I just missed out on a seat on the Wilderness Seaplanes Grumman Goose......



.....and where there was some whiffery in the airport model display!

Campbell River, local seaplane operation and maintenance facility; you can just about see what looks like the front end of an engineless Piper Aztec on floats just behind the hangar (didn't know they could be so fitted), and a bare metal Beech 18 fuselage and inner wings hiding behind a bush.  Then back to the mainland via Comox.  An excellent little museum with the added bonus of catching the Snowbirds perform their final practice ahead of the display season:



Vancouver Harbour Airport - floatplane heaven.  Shifts 360000+ passengers a year and the biggest type is the Twin Otter:




.....and finally, some Canuck wisdom:

[PR19_Kit]

...... plus, from nearby - can anyone identify the class of vessel?  Seen cruising down the Juan de Fuca Strait.
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Perhaps an RCN Halifax Class frigate? But it doesn't have that angled funnel top.



Green with envy over seeing all those floatplanes. 

[scooter]

plus, from nearby - can anyone identify the class of vessel?  Seen cruising down the Juan de Fuca Strait.
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Arleigh Burke DDG, probably coming out of NB Kitsap

[kitbasher]

plus, from nearby - can anyone identify the class of vessel?  Seen cruising down the Juan de Fuca Strait.
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Arleigh Burke DDG, probably coming out of NB Kitsap

Looks like that judging by the pics found through Google.

[Captain Canada]

Wow ! Great trip and lots of spotting, eh !?

I'm working in Illinois again, and saw my first HC-27J today.

[zenrat]

Great pics KB.  Thanks for sharing.

[NARSES2]

Great pics mate, may thanks for sharing 

I must admit that before I went to Alaska I didn't think that many sea/floatplanes had ever existed 

[Spey_Phantom]

arround lunchtime today, i has a Reliant Stinson fly over my house, dont see those here everyday 

[ericr]

... a bazillion floatplanes were seen, ...

ah lucky you, thanks for sharing 

[PR19_Kit]

arround lunchtime today, i has a Reliant Stinson fly over my house, dont see those here everyday 

Would that have been a Stinson Reliant perchance?

[Spey_Phantom]

arround lunchtime today, i has a Reliant Stinson fly over my house, dont see those here everyday 

Would that have been a Stinson Reliant perchance?

indeed, i always get that designation mixed up 

[Rheged]

Over Carlisle at lunchtime today, a couple of Skyvans (perhaps a breeding pair) trundling through the lower atmosphere. I was told later that they were on their way to a parachute extravaganza somewhere in south east Scotland.

[PR19_Kit]

How do you tell the gender of a Skyvan then? 

[jcf]

plus, from nearby - can anyone identify the class of vessel?  Seen cruising down the Juan de Fuca Strait.
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Arleigh Burke DDG, probably coming out of NB Kitsap

The Arleigh Burke USS Ralph Johnson arrived at Naval Station Everett (Everett, WA) on April 27th,
joining five other destroyers home-ported here.