DHC Focuses on Four Markets to Build Dash 8-400 Orderbook

The renamed DHC sees plenty of markets for its improved model.

Africa is fertile ground for Dash 8-400 sales. DHC delivered the 600th example to Ethiopian Airlines in July. The company calls the region “really interesting,” in part because legacy Dash 8-100s and -300s operate there in some numbers.

By Chris Kjelgaard

November 11, 2019

Six months into its emergence as a separate company resurrecting the storied de Havilland Aircraft of Canada name, DHC is focusing much of its overall sales effort on the North American, African, and Asia/Middle East regional-aviation markets. The goal is to build the orderbook for the Dash 8-400, its only aircraft-manufacturing program. DHC is also pursuing potential sales of new Dash 8-400s to governmental customers who would then customize the aircraft for special-missions work.

Todd Young, DHC’s chief operating officer, told AIN that at the company’s preferred, somewhat flexible production rate of two to two-and-a-half aircraft a month, DHC’s Dash 8-400 order backlog in October was sufficient to sustain production until the fall of 2020. As of July 31, when DHC last provided a precise number for the order backlog, outstanding orders stood at 46 aircraft.

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