DHC Bush Planes: Beaver, Otter and Twin Otter

[Mossie]

Picked up a Revell Twotter the other day and wondering what to do with it.  Had a few thoughts, British Army CASTOR alternative to the BN Defender and a light maritime patrol aircraft.  A quick Google search show's that the MPA is being considered.  I could see this with floats for a small island nation.
http://www.casr.ca/ai-viking-guardian-400.htm




Twin Beaver, take an Otter and add two smaller piston engines on the wings for an alternative DHC-3.

[kitnut617]

Twin Beaver, take an Otter and add two smaller piston engines on the wings for an alternative DHC-3.

Like this idea, astazous from the skyvan maybe. As the Beaver is quite a bit smaller than an Otter, finding a nose cone might be a bit of a problem -- although the nose cone from a Matchbox Canberra PR.9 might work

[maxmwill]

Twin 2800s, 3350s, or even 4360s?

Or, and this will take some imagination, twin Lycoming 7755s, or if you really want to go hog wild, Napier Nomads.

[Weaver]

Alternative Twin Otter: fit a single Otter with a solid nose (spare one from the Twotter kit maybe?) and the twin, nose-mounted engines from the Dornier Do.28 Skyservant.

[Mossie]

Tri-Otter, (Tritter?), competitor to the Trisander.

Biplane Otter (Bipper, or maybe Dipper?), western equivalent of the An-2.

[jcf]

Tri-Otter, (Tritter?), competitor to the Trisander.

Biplane Otter (Bipper, or maybe Dipper?), western equivalent of the An-2.

With reverse stagger ala the Beech Model 24. 

[zenrat]

Tri-Otter, (Tritter?), competitor to the Trisander...

Surely a Trotter?
Two versions, the Del-Boy and the Rodney...

[PR19_Kit]

Tri-Otter, (Tritter?), competitor to the Trisander...

Surely a Trotter?
Two versions, the Del-Boy and the Rodney...

It'd have three wheels of course............ 

[Martin H]

Tri-Otter, (Tritter?), competitor to the Trisander...

Surely a Trotter?
Two versions, the Del-Boy and the Rodney...

It'd have three wheels of course............  

And painted a dirty shade of yellow as factory standard.

[Captain Canada]

Great thread start !

[Logan Hartke]

Has anyone tried "back dating" a Twin Otter to the 1950s maybe with R-985s from a Beech 18 or Grumman Goose?

Cheers,

Logan

[Mossie]

Single Twin Otter.  Larger turboprop in the nose, to reduce maintenance requirements.  It'd look a lot like Turbo Otter, the nose could probably be shorter as you wouldn't have the balance issues.

[Mossie]

Found something along the same lines on Secret Projects:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/bac-beaver-aircraft-canada.2697/#post-21807

Beaver Aircraft Canada Super Otter.  Looks a lot like a single engined twin Otter, but it's a twin with a Soloy Dual Pac driving a single prop.


Another design, with an Otter fuselage.

[Mossie]

Next-Gen Turbo Beaver from the same company, with Twotter style tail:



Old and new superimposed:

[kitnut617]

Simon, Lift Here Models actually do a 1/72 kit of that Turbo-Beaver



And Khee-Kha Productions do a turbo-Otter conversion in 1/72