DHC-2 Beaver 25e

About

The DHC-2 Beaver made its maiden flight on August 16, 1947, at Downsview, Ontario, with Second World War flying ace Russell Bannock at the controls — the world's first aircraft designed specifically for short takeoff and landing, and the workhorse of the Canadian and Alaskan bush for decades. De Havilland Canada built 1,657 Beavers between 1947 and 1967, on wheels, skis, and floats, in colors ranging from Department-of-Lands-and-Forests yellow to Royal Canadian Air Force military livery, and the type continues to fly working bush operations today.

This 25e variant is a smaller electric-powered RC implementation of the same Beaver subject — designed for the park-flyer scale where the lower wing loading and simpler battery-and-brushless-motor power system make for a more accessible introduction to bushplane scale flying than the bigger nitro-powered scale models. The same generous wing area, square-section fuselage, and unmistakable high-wing radial-cowled silhouette of the real Beaver carry through to this smaller variant. The proportions of countless modern foam Beaver park-flyer kits trace directly back to the real DHC-2.

In the simulator

A friendly electric bushplane. The 25e variant of the Beaver flies with the same gentle, stable handling as the larger nitro-powered Beaver in this pack, but with the lighter wing loading and quieter operation of an electric park-flyer. Use it for casual scale flying — short takeoffs, low-and-slow scenic legs, and the unhurried pattern that suits the bushplane character. Pairs well with parkland and grass-strip landscapes. The natural starting point in the Beaver family within this pack, with the full DHC-2 Beaver and the Turbo Beaver Electric as siblings.