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thijson
Another famous De Havilland aircraft, the Beaver:

https://youtu.be/4wQjAB-jnI8

With commentary by Harrison Ford.

Sounds like this plane wasn't De Havilland to start with, they just bought the rights to build them.

dingaling
Originally designed by Canadair which started life as another British subsidiary, Canadian Vickers, which was taken into state ownership in WW2 and renamed more patriotically.

Later sold to Electric Boat and organised under General Dynamics, then later sold to Bombardier.

The latter decide to leave the commercial aircraft market and focus on business jets. DHC acquired the rights to the CL_15 series in 2016.

fmajid
In Europe, or at least in France, “Canadair” is synonymous with fire-fighting aircraft.
secretsatan
As a young kid i had an airfix model of a CL-215, painted in the yellow and red livery, i thought it was the coolest plane ever.
LandStander
I remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.
ianburrell
I think that the Canadair 215/415/515 series may be the only purpose-designed firefighting aircraft. The rest are all converted from military and airliners. Amphibious waterbombers are getting rare, old Catalinas are the other main ones.