designed by Les Penridge
flight model by Brian Horsey
painted by David Henderson
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The deHavilland Heron was launched in 1950 as the replacement
for the four engine DH86 biplane. It made use of a large number
of components from the smaller two engine DH104 Dove, but was
given four engines and had space for 14 passengers. The original
Series 1B aircraft used Gipsy Queen 30 engines and were fitted
with a fixed undercarriage. The later Series 2B were given
retractable undercarriage. A large proportion of Herons were
re-engined with uprated Lycoming IO-540 engines and designated
as Series 2D, with those certified to the US standards as
Series 2A.
The .AFX and .PCX files for the Heron 2D/A are made available to
anyone who would like to repaint the model for other operators
and other parts of the world. Herons were registered in about
30 countries, so there are lots of possibilities. The only
restriction is that all models from this .AFX should be
freeware, and an acknowledgement of the source would be nice.
Les Penridge
Mooloolah, Australia.
penridge@computer.org
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a year later...
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Painted by David "Zeus" Henderson
Conyers, GA
davidstacy@prodigy.net
February 1999
This is one of several DH-Herons I have painted into various colors
of the Caribbean airline Prinair which at one time operated the
world's largest Heron fleet.
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HISTORY
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"FLYING THE COLORFUL CARIBBEAN"
Prinair was established in 1964 at Ponce, Puerto Rico under the name
of Ponce Air. The company moved to San Juan in 1966 and the name was
changed to Prinair, short for Puerto Rico International Airlines. By
the late 1970s Prinair was one of the largest commuter carriers in
North America flying close to a million passengers anually and nearly
300 daily flights with a fleet of approximately 30 DeHavilland DH-114
Herons. The airline's top route was San Juan , Puerto Rico to St.
Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands with over 40 round trips operated daily.
