De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 (DH8C)
The De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 — ICAO type designator DH8C — is a twin-engined turboprop aircraft. It seats about 50 passengers, flies up to 1,711 km and spans 27.4 m. In Skydex one pilot logged a single airframe of the De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300.
Heard by the network
Heard by 4 Skydex receivers (near Calgary, Georgia): 105 different airframes, 1,674 sightings since 7 Sep 2026, last on 11 Nov 2026.
- saffayyc — 🇨🇦 Canada · near Calgary · run by @saffayyc — 9 airframes, 48 sightings, last 2026-11-11
- BakerC - FiberflyTower — 🇺🇸 United States of America · Georgia · run by @ebc1613 — 8 airframes, 17 sightings, last 2026-11-10
- MPL-CYYC-ADSB — 🇨🇦 Canada · near Calgary · run by @keith-tweed — 6 airframes, 118 sightings, last 2026-10-28
- Hoyt Clagwell — 🇺🇸 United States of America · Florida · run by @k-han — 4 airframes, 7 sightings, last 2026-11-10
Operators
- 🇳🇿 Air New Zealand (ANZ) — 21 airframes
- 🇨🇦 Air Inuit Ltd/Ltee (AIE) — 8 airframes
- 🇨🇦 Perimeter Aviation (PAG) — 8 airframes
- 🇨🇦 Central Mountain Air Ltd. (GLR) — 3 airframes
- 🇳🇴 Wideroe (WIF) — 3 airframes
- 🇺🇸 Conner Air Lines (CRQ) — 2 airframes
- PVL (PVL) — 2 airframes
- 🇦🇺 Skytrans (SKP) — 2 airframes
- 🇹🇷 Sultan Air (SUT) — 2 airframes
- Sunwest Aviation (CNK) — 2 airframes
- 🇹🇼 EVA Air (EVA) — 1 airframe
- 🇦🇪 Falcon Aviation Services (FVS) — 1 airframe
- Hydro - Quebec (HYD) — 1 airframe
- LSJ (LSJ) — 1 airframe
- 🇨🇦 North Cariboo Air (NCB) — 1 airframe
- QUE (QUE) — 1 airframe
- TIN (TIN) — 1 airframe
Distinct airframes per operator, from the callsigns our receivers hear (recorded since 7 Oct 2026) and from caught aircraft. The operator is the latest one heard, not an ownership history. Also heard: 5 military (not named), 13 private (not named), 28 without an operator callsign yet.
- ICAO type code
- DH8C
- Manufacturer
- De Havilland Canada
- Engines
- 2 × turboprop
- Typical seats
- 50
- Range
- 1,711 km
- Wingspan
- 27.4 m
- Length
- 25.7 m
- Card rarity
- common