I don't think anyone has mentioned this Dak yet. Can you guess the registration? Bonus points for also getting the year and location. Hint: it was not being operated by the air creebec

x2 - What Cat said. I knew and worked with the F/O.........

Austin Airways employed low time pilots as flight attendants, loadmasters and ramp rats in YPL in the 80's before they merged with the old Air Ontario and sold their bush operations. This was probably the beginning of this practice and was welcomed by the flightcrews as the quality and safety of the...

The story about Hudsons Bay Company's Fort Ross being abandoned in 1943 due to a failure of the resupply ship arriving, in 1942 and 1943 is correct. The part about about Stanwell Fletcher parachuting in to prepare an ice runway to allow an aircraft to land is also correct, in fact Fletcher Lake up t...

Pickle Lake Air Services, Austin Airways' last floatbase operation, was sold and operated as Kelner Airways in May 1986. BER was purchased from a Quebec company that spring and joined Otter ODT; they also had a Beaver and a couple of C-185's. That August BER suffered an engine fire on start up at th...

It will be a tough go for them for the first few years or so. 7F has the medical travel, food mail, Northern Store and Coop freight contracts for each community; that leaves mainly the incidental traffic. 5T is being forced into this by their ownership who want to see the airline get back to it orig...

No port or ships at Kugluktuk, only barge service. Most operators will not overnight a floatplane there in town due to the vandalism.