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Viking's latest Twin Otter flying high over Andes

srgalahad

Charter Member 2022
Viking Air delivered its latest Twin Otter aircraft last weekend at the FIDAE Air and Space Fair in Santiago, Chile.

It's been a swift start to the year for Viking, the Sidney company behind the reinvention of the legendary de Havilland airplane. Late last month, the company delivered a Twin Otter to Petro Air of Libya and completed a successful tour of Asia while delivering another to a mining company company in Papua, New Guinea.

Viking currently has a production backlog order of 55 planes worth more than $350 million. The base price for a plane is $6.5 million - although the cost is higher as options are added - and Viking's 450 staff at Victoria International Airport and 200 at a final-assembly line in Calgary are working at full capacity.

Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/Viking...h+over+Andes/6424909/story.html#ixzz1rsIVaFrW
 
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