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DHC-5 Buffalo

Country of Origin: Canada

The Buffalo is a twin-turboprop short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) tactical transport derived from the earlier DHC-4 Caribou (see separate database entry), with which it shares the same general layout.

The Buffalo, as was the Caribou, was developed by De Havilland of Canada in response to U.S. and Canadian army requirements. The aircraft was in low-rate production for almost two decades and has been widely used. Now an aging design, the aircraft has been withdrawn from most of the...

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