Boeing-Canada A-213 Totem

The Boeing-Canada A-213 Totem was a single-engine pusher monoplane flying boat designed by Boeing Aircraft of Canada for forestry and fisheries patrols and as a light utility transport along the British Columbia coast, where flat ground for runways is scarce and waterways are plentiful. Only one was built, registered CF-ARF, and its design owed more to chief engineer Edward Fothergill Elderton and his earlier work at Saunders-Roe than to other Boeing designs. It had a hull of corrugated sheet metal, a four seat cabin, a 300 horsepower Pratt and Whitney Wasp Junior radial engine mounted as a pusher, and a retractable water rudder. First flown around 16 June 1932, it passed official tests that September but sold slowly, passing to private operators and then to Canadian Airways, which used it for fisheries patrols until 1938. Its registration was cancelled in 1942.