A Canada Post stamp commemorating the Beaver — renowned as a bush plane and named one of Canada’s top engineering achievements of the 20th century — was unveiled at the Viking Air hangar
Peter Killin’s 44 years flying and repairing Beaver aircraft have given him all sorts of stories to tell, including the time he delivered what he thought was a bag of mail to a remote community and it turned out to be a bag of laundry.
The 69-year-old Campbell River resident was at Victoria International Airport on Thursday for the unveiling of a Canada Post stamp commemorating the Beaver — renowned as a bush plane and named one of Canada’s top engineering achievements of the 20th century by the Canadian Engineering Centennial Board.
Killin recalled a time when a man in Alaska was mailing bales of hay to market, because it was cheaper than chartering a plane. Cue the Beaver, which was fitted with a specially designed door that could allow enough product to be loaded to make air delivery economical. The stamp was unveiled locally because Viking Air, part of De Havilland Canada since 2019, has been a major producer of still-in-demand Beaver parts since 1983.
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