{"id":336,"date":"2026-02-01T14:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=336"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:29:18","slug":"dash-8-400-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/?news=dash-8-400-first-flight","title":{"rendered":"Dash 8-400 First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Q400-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Q400-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Q400-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Q400-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Q400-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Q400-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Q400-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 31, 1998, the De Havilland Canada Dash-8 Q400 made its first flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designed as a 70-seat stretched version of the popular Dash-8, the aircraft features two fuselage plugs, modern avionics, and two Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PW150A engines driving Dowty 6-blade propellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Production ran from 1998 to 2022. The 400 proved popular even outside its airline origins. Maritime patrols, aerial firefighting, and other adaptations have been used worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While production has stopped due to De Havilland&#8217;s original home of Downsview being sold. The company states it is considering restarting production once its new production facility outside Calgary is complete, approximately in 2033.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 31, 1998, the De Havilland Canada Dash-8 Q400 made its first flight. Designed as a 70-seat stretched version of the popular Dash-8, the aircraft features two fuselage plugs, modern avionics, and two Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PW150A engines driving Dowty 6-blade propellers. Production ran from 1998 to 2022. The 400 proved popular even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/?news=dash-8-400-first-flight\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dash 8-400 First Flight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-336","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/news\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/news\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/news\/336\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersonaviation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fnews-category&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}