VH-NOO  DHC-2 Beaver 1                                          (c/n  1535)

                              

                                   This evocative shot was taken by George Canciani at Rose Bay, Sydney in November of 2004. 
                                   VH-NOO was the former VH-IDI, a crop duster until 1997 when it became a sight seeing float-
                                   plane based in Sydney.     On 31 December 2017, VH-NOO crashed into the Hawkesbury
                                   River, after stalling at 200 feet following a water take-off.       The pilot, a Canadian citizen,
                                   had 9000 hours on Beavers.  He, along with the five passengers, tourists who had watched
                                   the New Years' display over Sydney Harbour, were sadly all killed    The shot below, from
                                   the Phil Vabre collection, shows it a year (less a day) earlier on 1 January 2017.