"...10. The plane in which we traveled was a De Havailland Beaver, built in 1959 and first owned by the U.S. Army Air Corps. There were only 1,692 planes of this type constructed, over half of them purchased by the U.S. Army. Construction stopped in 1967, but over half of these float planes are still in service today, the majority of them used in Alaska. ..."
DHC-2 Beaver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-2_Beaver) Years of production: 1947-1967 (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/peacetraveler22/49370105/714606/714606_900.jpg)
Yakovlev Yak-12 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-12) Years of production: 1946 - 1968 (http://images.webpark.ru/uploads54/121226/New_life_plane_30.jpg)
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Date: 2015-02-01 04:51 pm (UTC)DHC-2 Beaver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-2_Beaver)
Years of production: 1947-1967
Yakovlev Yak-12 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-12)
Years of production: 1946 - 1968