It's tough to beat the Turbo Beaver wheel/skis of floats, The Cessna 206 is a great wheel plane but a very poor performer on floats with the 300 h.p. engine and 4 hours fuel load. I'm Looking foreword to my next flight on the Turbo Beaver.
The main difference is payload. The 206 is at gross weight, and the Beaver has only a light weight pilot on board.
The 206 is still great for landing at 99.99% of all seaports because 70% of this planet is covered with water. In fact, I've never seen a short water runway before.
Thrust to weight ratio even though the beaver is bigger the thrust ratio is greater then the 206 it also has a greater wing surface area then the 206 of course it going to beat its an unmatched performance
The 206 is a nice plane, not neccesarily made to excel in the water, where as the beaver is far more specialized so this is an unfair comparison, like comparing a honda fit and a lambo gallardo
It's funny that some of you guys mentioned the flag deal, I used to work for wip and moved this plane all the time, it's got the american flag on one side and canadian flag on the other. We called her kinky lucy haha
Lets see, Cessna 206 Turbo with floats, 700K, 310 horspower.
Turbine Beaver with floats, 1.5 Million, 750 horsepower.
A fair comparison? No. I mean why not badmouth a Honda Accord because it can't beat a ferrari off the line or put a Ford Taurus up against a Superduty with both towing fifth wheels and then badmouth the taurus.
Well the dH Beaver was designed to be a STOL/float airplane first and foremost.
The C206 wasn't. It was first designed as a derivative of the retractable (does that say anything?) 210. Which makes a docile, somewhat efficient aircraft.
The C206 is stupidly underpowered for good float performance. On wheels though, there arn't very many planes that can take the useful load of a 206 at the same cruising speed).
It's not like the Cessna 206 is a 46 year old planform or anything...
Hey, Slap a turbine on that pig! Nobody will notice that we have not designed a new mainstream (not jet) aircraft in decades! We've got em all fooled!
It would be interesting to see how the performance of the turbo beaver is compared to a piston beaver... the piston beavers take off performance sucks.
yeah just like west jet the CANADIAN airline uses a BOEING 737 which is an American plane.....such Ignorance...It's an airplane that has a paint scheme.....I'm sure Canadian "military" aircraft arent all made in Canada are they? American planes have American flags, Canadian planes have Canadian flags regardless of where they were built....Damn Canadians and their "proudly Canadian" on everything they create from cheese to airplanes pride.
If you wanted a real comparison, you'd've used a Soloy 206 and a regular Cessna 206. Even a P&W Beaver would've beat the 206 off the lake. I know what Beavers can do, having seen KAH's Beavers go all day long, piston or turbine. What next: A Corvette vs. a Corolla? Next time, be realistic.
LOL... curvature of the earth! I like that! ... hard to beat turbine power and flexibility, but that 206 is a nice looking aircraft, and pretty darn capable for the money. I fancy the Caravan.. anyone have several million dollars lying around the house that I could have? ;)
If the earth was an infinitely long and wide flat surface with the same gravitational field both planes would become airborne the exact same way. the curvatureof the Earth has nothing to do with it. In fact the curvature in th very short distance of this take-off approaches zero (flat) as a limit.
The C-206T is also a piston acft. The Beaver is powered by a PT6-A turboprop rated at about 2000 SHP. The Beaver in this video was also retrofited with a STOL conversion. This is, by far, not a fair comparison.
lets test the performance of a piston airplane to that of a turbine engine, hmm try the beaver against a cessna caravan then it will be more even.2 turboprops would be even.
COME ON GUYS!!! how can you compare a turbine beaver to a cessna 206 its impossible its like comparing an ultralight to a 206. put a turbine 206 with a turbine beaver THEN! shoe me the results.
Considering the DHC2 has twice the horsepower with the PT6, against the Lycoming Turbo Piston engine. Pretty Stupid comparison. Throw a Texas Turbine Conversion into the Cessna or use the Caravan, then we got a show!
What does this prove? Yeah a 650HP turboprop plane designed for STOL can beat a 300HP piston plane designed for general purpose flying. It's like racing a Corvette against a Camry. How does it do against a Soloy 206 with a Robertson STOL?
The turbo Beaver conversion uses a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A (not sure exacty which model) of around 500 to 600 shp. I may be wrong but I think the airframe of the beaver is limited to 600hp max. There may be a STC to boost the HP to a higher limit
The Beaver is a bush plane and is known for it's STOL capabilities. wnted to build an r/c model of it a few years ago but the radial engine was pretty expensive so I sold the plans.
Love the Beaver but hate the paint job.
Erated78 4 months ago
can the Beaver fly with 11 passengers and a shit load of cargo at the same time??? NO.
EstebanCRC 6 months ago
Wips bird is a beast!
b19pilot 7 months ago
It's tough to beat the Turbo Beaver wheel/skis of floats, The Cessna 206 is a great wheel plane but a very poor performer on floats with the 300 h.p. engine and 4 hours fuel load. I'm Looking foreword to my next flight on the Turbo Beaver.
olesmoker 8 months ago
The main difference is payload. The 206 is at gross weight, and the Beaver has only a light weight pilot on board.
The 206 is still great for landing at 99.99% of all seaports because 70% of this planet is covered with water. In fact, I've never seen a short water runway before.
FlyGuy2480 8 months ago
Thrust to weight ratio even though the beaver is bigger the thrust ratio is greater then the 206 it also has a greater wing surface area then the 206 of course it going to beat its an unmatched performance
jm2124 11 months ago
Love the Boss Beav when it goes into reverse thrust. Stops on a dime!
MandolinHymns 11 months ago
What an awful paint job. Sweet plane though
SuperDatank 1 year ago
The 206 is a nice plane, not neccesarily made to excel in the water, where as the beaver is far more specialized so this is an unfair comparison, like comparing a honda fit and a lambo gallardo
dfx961 1 year ago
Great for us new aviators that don't know that much about differance bettween each plane! Thanks for sharing! H P is always a factor ! Agrees
turbokitty222 1 year ago
1955 Beaver right?
hoppy123456798 1 year ago
Meh, a Piper Aztruck on floats will outperform the Beaver!! :-P
Scrapheap71 1 year ago
Very fun plane the Beaver. Got a ride in this plane over the weekend. Checkout jamesfromny videos.
Jamesfromnyc 1 year ago
You crazy buggers! A drag-race between sea-planes??? Overhere, we would get buried in red-tape SO deep it'd make ya cry for ya momma.. :P
diakrite 1 year ago
like comparing apples to golf balls
8literbeater 1 year ago
Dehavilland Kicks ass!
Northern206 1 year ago
or just get a c208 anfib. 10 squillion times better than a turbine beaver on floats.
MrSneakyNicky 1 year ago
As Leslie Nielson aka Frank Dremmond from Naked Gun says, "Nice Beaver!"
lowflyingcessna 1 year ago
As Leslie Nielson aka Frank Dremmond from Naked Gun says, "Nice Beaver!"
lowflyingcessna 1 year ago
i am SO not suprised that a turbine beaver can perform like that lol.
exile907 1 year ago
Good comparison or not, I would give one fully functional testicle to have that Beaver.
seangerritmoore 1 year ago
Canadian made beaver FOREVER
poskyflyer 1 year ago
It's funny that some of you guys mentioned the flag deal, I used to work for wip and moved this plane all the time, it's got the american flag on one side and canadian flag on the other. We called her kinky lucy haha
benelliboy100 2 years ago
Nicely done.
bluedog1976 2 years ago
AMERICA!!!!!
Saberpride73 2 years ago
I LOVE BEAVER!!!!
briansmobile1 2 years ago 2
Cool vid. Nice paint scheme on the Beaver.
sjackson1515 2 years ago
No surprise here.
Ocourse the beaver's gonna win, it's an actual sea plane.
The Cessna is just a land plane with floats.
biggestMetallicAfan 2 years ago
Lets see, Cessna 206 Turbo with floats, 700K, 310 horspower.
Turbine Beaver with floats, 1.5 Million, 750 horsepower.
A fair comparison? No. I mean why not badmouth a Honda Accord because it can't beat a ferrari off the line or put a Ford Taurus up against a Superduty with both towing fifth wheels and then badmouth the taurus.
Guffaw!
flanksteak1 2 years ago 56
@flanksteak1 people dont care. they're like "ya so what i dont care, the 206 is better."
so they made this vid to shush them up.
snooppupc130jrketmas 2 years ago
@flanksteak1 doesnt really matter because no cessna will ever compete fairly with a DH.. DH is hands down the best:D
poskyflyer 1 year ago
@flanksteak1
Well the dH Beaver was designed to be a STOL/float airplane first and foremost.
The C206 wasn't. It was first designed as a derivative of the retractable (does that say anything?) 210. Which makes a docile, somewhat efficient aircraft.
The C206 is stupidly underpowered for good float performance. On wheels though, there arn't very many planes that can take the useful load of a 206 at the same cruising speed).
A better comparison would be with a turbo maule.
fiyahballz 1 year ago
@flanksteak1
Who's badmouthing? You sound like a Cessna owner LOL! Just having some fun! I just flew in this plane over the weekend and there is nothing like it!
Jamesfromnyc 1 year ago
@flanksteak1 whats the spec on these engines, i thought the Cessna had a PWC PT6? whats the beaver got?
olioli917 4 months ago
A better comparison would have been with a Cessna 206 Turbine.
altrisk 2 years ago
It's not like the Cessna 206 is a 46 year old planform or anything...
Hey, Slap a turbine on that pig! Nobody will notice that we have not designed a new mainstream (not jet) aircraft in decades! We've got em all fooled!
eqtworld 2 years ago
c-206 is a big fat porker on floats
motoman1210 2 years ago
bad comparison, the C-206 on floats is a big fat heavy hog
motoman1210 2 years ago
Beaver is a chunky ugly thing.
kbickhaus 2 years ago
It would be interesting to see how the performance of the turbo beaver is compared to a piston beaver... the piston beavers take off performance sucks.
MrAndrew1907 2 years ago
I think the turbine option is somewhere between half a million and a million dollars, just for the motor....
eqtworld 2 years ago
WTH? That's like comparing a car racing a person walking. Turbo vs Turbine? Piston vs a jet engine with a prop? yeah that's an equal comparison.
bmstyle 2 years ago 4
The Beaver owns!!!
Canadians make the best bush flying planes and private jets.
Anyway, nice vid!
TheFlightFreak 2 years ago
10 seconds from power to lift off.. that's what im talking about!
MrAndrew1907 2 years ago
Great performance of the Boss Beaver!! If I would have enough money I'd get one. Maybe one day.
Currently studying for ATPL
aiRCGenius 2 years ago
Good Luck! Someday I hope to be getting one of those ;)
DerPilotMann 2 years ago
stars and bars on such an iconic CANADIAN aircraft? Maybe we should paint a Maple Leaf on the space shuttle!
metalheds 2 years ago
Who cares, they can paint it however they want if they're paying for it.
flynmid 2 years ago
i would much rather here the sound of the engine than the lame music.
adfni 2 years ago 4
What a HORRIBLE paint scheme on that Beaver!!
Painting a Yank flag on a Canadian aircraft couldn't be more of a disgrace.
skybaron1 2 years ago
yeah just like west jet the CANADIAN airline uses a BOEING 737 which is an American plane.....such Ignorance...It's an airplane that has a paint scheme.....I'm sure Canadian "military" aircraft arent all made in Canada are they? American planes have American flags, Canadian planes have Canadian flags regardless of where they were built....Damn Canadians and their "proudly Canadian" on everything they create from cheese to airplanes pride.
bmstyle 2 years ago
@bmstyle you have issues. What is wrong with someone having a little pride these days?
Trruckker 2 years ago
If you wanted a real comparison, you'd've used a Soloy 206 and a regular Cessna 206. Even a P&W Beaver would've beat the 206 off the lake. I know what Beavers can do, having seen KAH's Beavers go all day long, piston or turbine. What next: A Corvette vs. a Corolla? Next time, be realistic.
And the music sucked.
SenorSpode 2 years ago 3
What makes it possible for a Cessna to leave the ground? ... THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH!
Still the better looking of the two :p
netscion 3 years ago 12
LOL... curvature of the earth! I like that! ... hard to beat turbine power and flexibility, but that 206 is a nice looking aircraft, and pretty darn capable for the money. I fancy the Caravan.. anyone have several million dollars lying around the house that I could have? ;)
likeawhispr 2 years ago
LoL! good one.
one of my dads customers used to bug me to come give him a push down the runway so he could make it out in his ol' cherokee.
lejink 2 years ago
@netscion you don't know what you're talking about. The 206 is a fine bush plane.
gregcaesar 1 year ago
@gregcaesar the beaver is a far better bush plane always was always will be
poskyflyer 1 year ago
@netscion
If the earth was an infinitely long and wide flat surface with the same gravitational field both planes would become airborne the exact same way. the curvatureof the Earth has nothing to do with it. In fact the curvature in th very short distance of this take-off approaches zero (flat) as a limit.
applejak2000 11 months ago
@netscion That is a good one! LOL!
flyacf 10 months ago
What is the HP difference a few facts please.
angelica14709 3 years ago
The Cessna 206 Turbo has 310 HP. Not sure about the Beaver though.
Apollo580 2 years ago
about 3 times that.
anickode 2 years ago
It looks like a PT-6, they can produce from about 600 to 1600 HP, but i think turbo Beavers got about 700 HP, a lot more than 206 ! hehe
jsdm14 2 years ago
The C-206T is also a piston acft. The Beaver is powered by a PT6-A turboprop rated at about 2000 SHP. The Beaver in this video was also retrofited with a STOL conversion. This is, by far, not a fair comparison.
Rivikesojosh 2 years ago 4
Life is not fair
eqtworld 2 years ago
The southern want-to-be against the local.
I always bet on the local.
biko0909 3 years ago
lets test the performance of a piston airplane to that of a turbine engine, hmm try the beaver against a cessna caravan then it will be more even.2 turboprops would be even.
cwillis500 3 years ago
Those will be fun to fly.
motorspear903 3 years ago
COME ON GUYS!!! how can you compare a turbine beaver to a cessna 206 its impossible its like comparing an ultralight to a 206. put a turbine 206 with a turbine beaver THEN! shoe me the results.
amediastintas 3 years ago
That's the ugliest airplane i've ever seen in my life. Although a wicked Turbine Beaver, goddamn ugly.
FreshWaterOtters 3 years ago
I think its the shiznitobamsipsapsnak
nicklking 3 years ago
Then you've never seen an Aeronca C-3 before.
Tubes12AX7k 3 years ago
amen love that radial engine sound compared to a turbo
michaeliffland 3 years ago
.....there are no radial engines in this video...
badkharma101 3 years ago 4
Climbs like a homesick angel.
morrisonak 3 years ago
cessna still looks better
IflyN38PA 3 years ago
What kinda race is that? A turbine versus a piston driven plane? No wonder the beaver won. Still a cool video
s12pendler 3 years ago
awesome mate really great...creative and well done! great effort
bluecollarnz 3 years ago
Considering the DHC2 has twice the horsepower with the PT6, against the Lycoming Turbo Piston engine. Pretty Stupid comparison. Throw a Texas Turbine Conversion into the Cessna or use the Caravan, then we got a show!
mattiellis 3 years ago
post the vid without that asinine song...great otherwise :)
goofboot 3 years ago 2
lol, yeah, at fist i thought they were being sarcastic by putting in that choice of song.
movitmovit 3 years ago
What does this prove? Yeah a 650HP turboprop plane designed for STOL can beat a 300HP piston plane designed for general purpose flying. It's like racing a Corvette against a Camry. How does it do against a Soloy 206 with a Robertson STOL?
Calnickel 4 years ago
Nice comparison, Good video.Turbo beaver is pretty slick!
Retarded song, this song is why people make fun of pilots...Later Ice
pilatus5000 4 years ago 4
whats a music???
pauulo 4 years ago
Conversion. What kinda engine/horsepower does it have?
veldman37 4 years ago
The turbo Beaver conversion uses a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A (not sure exacty which model) of around 500 to 600 shp. I may be wrong but I think the airframe of the beaver is limited to 600hp max. There may be a STC to boost the HP to a higher limit
katana1150 3 years ago
Pooor little Cessna...Can't beat the little ol' Beaver.
northsurfer979 4 years ago
lol this cessna is piston the other is turbo
krlos9090 4 years ago
That was pretty cool.
jmr604 4 years ago
One ofthe best videos I've seen with real seaplanes!
/Vince> 12000TT ATPL 52Types inc; DHC-2/3/6/8-100/300C-180/185/206
2score 4 years ago
The Beaver is a bush plane and is known for it's STOL capabilities. wnted to build an r/c model of it a few years ago but the radial engine was pretty expensive so I sold the plans.
72Z15SS 4 years ago