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The 98th Flying Training Squadron is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the 306th Flying Training Group.It is stationed at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, however its De Havilland Canada UV-18 Twin Otter aircraft are housed and maintained at nearby Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.
In Norway, the Twin Otter paved the way for the network of short-field airports, connecting rural areas with larger towns. The Twin Otter showed outstanding reliability, and remained in service until 2000 on certain routes. Widerøe of Norway was, at one time, the world's largest operator of Twin Otters. During one period of its tenure in ...
The Twin Otter was and is used by dozens of airlines and militaries around the world, and was produced in three main series (100, 200, 300) until 1988.. As of 2006, over 40 years after design and manufacturing work on the original DHC-6 began, more than 500 of this aircraft were still flying.
In 1958, 418 was redesignated as a light transport and search and rescue unit. Aircraft assigned included the de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter and Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor from RCAF Station Namao. Its duties ranged from aid to the civil power to aerial resupply. [2] Upon unification of the forces the squadron converted to the De Havilland Twin ...
They later moved to CFB Namao just outside Edmonton where they operated de Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo and CC-138 Twin Otters. At the time, two of the Twin Otters were stationed in Yellowknife, and in 1994 after CFB Namao closed the squadron moved north to be redesignated No. 440 Transport Squadron in 1995. [1] [13]
DHC-6 Twin Otter The de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter is a single-engined, high-wing, propeller -driven, short take-off and landing ( STOL ) aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada . It was conceived to be capable of performing the same roles as the earlier and highly successful Beaver , including as a bush plane , but is overall a larger ...
On 14 May 2007, he began his Twin Otter in-flight training before obtaining his type rating on 18 May. He began working as a newly employed pilot for Air Moorea between 28 and 30 May 2007. He had spent most of the time being the captain of a flight during his career with Air Moorea. [1]: 12–13
The operator stated that at about the time of the accident, a GPS training package specific to the conduct of GPS non-precision approaches was being introduced. [2]: 5–6 [10] The co-pilot was First Officer Rodney Souka from Papua New Guinea. He had accumulated 2,150 flying hours, of which 1,940 were on the Twin Otter.