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While the de Havilland Caribou prototype initially flew in 1958, the ruggedness and the usefulness of their design enabled the Royal Australian Air Force to continuously operate the type in front-line service for 45 years, from 1964 when they were introduced to the RAAF until their full retirement in 2009.
A Royal Australia Air Force Caribou takes off from Omaka Aerodrome in Blenheim (New Zealand) after performing a STOL demonstration to Kiwi airshow attendees for the first time. Photo: © 2007 Les Bushell (Image Supplied)
The Caribou comes in for a very short STOL landing to demonstrate its capabilities. Photo: © 2007 Les Bushell (Image Supplied)
This aircraft is one of the fleet of Caribou's operated by the Royal Australian Air Force .The display took place at Classic Fighters 2009, at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, New Zealand, shortly before the entire RAAF Caribou fleet was retired.
Between 1964 and 2009 the RAAF operated a total of 29 examples of the Caribou, of which A4-140 was the last to be retired on 27th November 2009. This aircraft was donated to the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra (Australia).
While Canada, the USA and Australia were the primary users of the 307 Caribou aircraft that were built, there were manu other countries around the world who operated them at one time or another. The UAE, Ghana, India, Kenya and Spain all operated more that five examples of the type, while many other countries operated a smaller number. A small number of DHC-4s were even operated by the North Vietnam who captured them from the US during the war, and these remained in service with the Vietnam People's Air Force into the late 1970s.
Here's another look at the RAAF Caribous displaying at the Classic Fighters airshow, this time in 2007. This was the first time that many Kiwis at the show got to see what 'Bou was actually capable of from the STOL perspective.
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