Very slick production! As a former DHC employee, with a little bit of Beaver time from by bush days, some of the shots gave me tingles. You should do a video on how Alaska figures prominently in the Beaver's US military career. The Beaver was actually built to the results of a cross-Canada operator survey, with as many operator-defined features as possible, and they didn't expect to sell more than a few hundred, until Sales Director Russ Bannock's (a former Mosquito pilot) trip to Alaska to take some generals on a fishing trip to an "inaccessible" gravel bar. It was the beginning of DeHavilland Canada's status as kind of "official supplier of utility transports" to the US Army, up into the mid s 60s with the Beaver, Otter and Caribou, and Buffalo as well going forward (4 Buff prototypes were tested for SF support in Vietnam in '65), until the Army lost a feud with the Air Force over fixed wing aviation and gave up all its fixed wing a/c over 12000 lbs to the AF, who were uninterested in anything smaller than a Herc. The Army Caribous went to the AF in Vietnam, then to the SVAF. I was a production mechanic on the Buff in the late 70s during its last production run.

Incredible production, especially the shot from underneath over the water. It just shows what happens when design and engineering match the solution for tough times and places! Beautiful.

great video on why this great aircraft is the legends of legends, for many years to come...saw a video on guys finding a beaver left in salvage yard...and brought it back to life..the plane is that worth the effort..golden, priceless...thanks for views and wonderment on another Alaska culture.

Awesome short film. I want a Beaver.......the plane of course .

My family and I actually rode with Ryan in June of 2019, it was absolutely amazing! We couldn't have been in better hands, he's a great pilot.

Awesome video. Nicely done. Allways enjoy watching anything when a Beaver is featured. 🤙🏻👍🏻😎

If it was a shaved beaver, would it still be a bush plane?

I am already a beaver and otter believer, having flown both.. but holy smokes, you really sell it! Great video!!🤙

Excellent Tribute! You captured her essence! I even stood up and saluted at one point!

Flew in one in an Allegash trip in 1991. Phenomenal experience!

I fished in Maine wilderness areas made accessible to me by the Beaver. That plane took off down trout streams scraping bottom, it’s a beast that will get you in and out again, I’m thrilled to have had my time one.

It's like the tractor of the skies, yet somehow more beautiful. That engine sounds SO GOOD!

Superb ! Fantastic video which is so well produced. A great tribute to a great aircraft. Jerry

What an amazing video and plane! 😊👍

Absolutely stunning videography guys! What an amazing tribute to such a timeless icon of aviation! Way to go!

This was beautiful! Great locations, narration and editing, well done! Alaska looks SO beautiful! Hope to sail the some day :)

Amazing, simply beautiful

Amazing video well done. This plane is incredible can't believe they don't make them any more the can go anywhere I'm so impressed

I love Beaver.... 😊😊👌👍🛩🛩

WOW,YOU TOUCH MY HEART!!!

What are machine,breathtaking!

This video looks 110% like it was made by a big budget film production team. Highly underrated. Good Job lads!

I've been a Beleaver for decades having flown countless times on Saltspringair/Harbourair's fleet. Love this short film, great photography too.

I enjoyed it! Thanks

The Beast of a Aircraft that no others can compete against that has the capability to operate out of short distance and carrying the load of whatever you can fit inside

Very cool, nothing beats the sound of a radial

I do love a nice "beaver"

Have around 1400 hours on Beavers, beautiful aircraft!!

I'm so keen on that almost-idle thing they have going on. They are so fine.

Sweet video!

Nice Beavers ! :) I like a stock one with a port hole.

Saw this plane years ago on an outdoor show. The minute I saw it, thought it was an awesome plane! A true workhorse!

Its Awesome

All hail to the beavers

Without beaver 🦫 this world would not exist !

I hope the beaver is always there for me.

Nice videography!

And those are the places I want to be. Best I order some supplies now. Disappearing from society. Sounds calming.

I do truly do apologize for you statement that the bevervwas built for war as untrue as it could be the plane was designed for the Canadian north.. and it never had a intended military customer that came about by fluke it was just a perfect fit as a stol bush plane in particular on water primarily and not wheels infact out of the 1600+ I would bet 90% spend most of the year on flots and the rest on skis. New it cost around 30,000 with flots today it's well over 300,000.00 I have heard some have been sold for over 1 million. The best feature is its wing won't ever time out if maintained and not abused. The PW Wasp eng was overpowered backbone of the little 3/4 ton 4X4 flying pickup truck. Souped up with a turboprop and there's very few mountains you can't fly over

Irreplaceable in its utility role. Great airplane! In the same league as the venerable C-47/DC-3.They stand tall and stand alone.

Nice video!

This video is so close to being really awesome. Needs way less janky music and more audio of the airplane and the sounds of the surroundings. This is one of my favorite airplanes and I wanna hear it!!!

Love it! Where can I order that hat and hoodie?

It's what the wilderness was made for

The war on weight and balance and lack of power ...

This would be a great opportunity for me to come out and get my sea plane Rating in the Beaver

75 years young and still they haven't found anything better. The French tried but failed and ended up with basically a twin fin version of the Beaver.

Can't beat a nice beaver

An amazing expose of The Beaver. Thank you!

Awesome job. Can b with nature. Any vacancies?

Honestly, do Americans feel a need to glorify all things related to War? Even when some things had nothing to do with War? The deHaviland Beaver was designed by and for bush pilots serving prospectors, fishers, hunters, and fly-in Canadian communities. That the US military ordered about a thousand of them is a testament to the versatility of the aircraft.

Where can I buy one of the Beleaver caps? I went to the store and didn't see 'em. As as an Air Force vet and a farmer, I could proudly wear one.

I fly this plane in Microsoft flight simulator!

Which vid was island wings beaver “lady Esther” in? I looked on this vid, didn’t see it.

Ja, ohne Musik wäre das Video noch besser, ich höre den Motor so gerne, der ist Musik für mich.

I want one.

👍👍👍👍👍

I ride beavers 4 or 5 times a week

Soo I made this film about my friends Beaver ....

Where can I get one of those Hoodies?

Where did the helicopter come from

I where can I get one of those sweaters

where can i buy one of those hats??? :)

How does the beaver compare to cesnaa1140

Its the Land rover Of the Air

Are you sale one ?

Красивые места, но столь же опасные... Бобры, выдры, двойные выдры, хоть поршневые, хоть турбовинтовые простые и надёжные самолёты. Даже авионика на них ещё аналоговая стоит, что кстати очень не плохо. Спасибо за хорошее видео!:).

Lt. Dresden is says "Nice Beaver!"

QUESTIONS: how did this iconic bush plane Beaver get the name Beaver??? Why can not some one with bucks start a company manufacturing the Beaver?? Great Sight. God bless the people who fly this plane.

I love to see a woman take good care of her Beaver

Hi! Beautiful content and editing! I am a GA pilot and working on a video for an upcoming aircraft in the X-Plane flight simulator. I am asking for permission to use a few seconds of this video for non-commercial purposes. I give credit to all sources in my videos. Thanks and blue skies!

Awesome Video, sending an email to order a shirt!

So totally romantic! Just gotta' love the Beaver! The music? Not so much...

Bro How can you spell Beleaver????? It s believer...

Can I buy the Beleaver hat and Hoodie?

I floo one of those

How can I get my hands on one of those awesome shirts?

"Just a glimpse at the Beaver, and you can tell it was built for war!"

Beaveriffic

They look cooler and sounded better in person...

I spelled her name wrong, Michelle Masden.

HELL of an airplane. Building a remote cabin? We’ll deliver FULL SHEETS of plywood and tie lumber to the float spreader bars! Need fuel? We’ll bring it to you IN 55GALLON DRUMS! Got a canoe you need up there? No sweat, we’ll tie one to the lift struts! I met a beaver pilot from AK once that marked his floats for fresh and salt water. He could put more weight on it in salt (flying salmon from ships at sea) than he could keep afloat in fresh water. TRULY a LEGENDARY AIRPLANE!

I love to have one of those hats to promote your business here in Va

Some company should start making the again ,they would get the orders ok, start off small less over heads

Any of you AK pilots here in southeast ever come across Michelle Madden. Owner/ operator of island wings out of Ketchikan? I have been fortunate to fly with her many times in her de havellend on floats that she has had for years, one one cleanest, custom ized ones you will see anywhere, she has been flying Southeast AK for years. I have flown with some of best bush pilots in Alaska, and Michelle is up there with the best, it helps that she was shown the ropes by old crusty Southest AK pilots! Check out her beautiful floatplane at island wings web, you will see what I mean.

2:20 prototype

One and a half minutes of thumping "music" and sod all about the aircraft was more than enough for me. If the tours are anything like the video I'll stay on the ground, thank you very much.

May I climb into your Beaver and take me to the sky?

2:21 ah yes war machine

Im a Belieber

Flying with a Beaver?

Great footage, but the music is completely not the right category for this footage. This footage should have some more refined music which gives the film a deeper impression, not dubstep.

What is it with the music? It's suppose to be back ground, not drounding out the people talking, it's the sound, MUSIC TO MY EARS, of the P&W! The video was great, not the music!

Out f-en standing machine! It's what happens when a company intentionally has its designers and engineers listen to the end users as-opposed-to dictating to them like most of the well-funded debt-laden ponsi scheme crap corporations now do.

leave the music out of it

Dead

You can't get to any of there sites to order a hat... something doesn't seem right here.. does not seem to be a working site, maybe not safe !! you see a site that is safe you can go right to it ,,,this you can't.. I'm out of here.

I tried hard to give this a thumbs up, but... I'm getting too old for these videos; a bunch of 4 second segments strung together with crappy music and interspersed with random slow motion shots. Please stop trying to produce art when a documentary will do better. "Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth" Now that's how you do it.