Husky-book-cover.jpg In 1980, having flown a number of times in the last commercially operated Fairchild Husky (North Coast Air Services' C-FEIM), I developed an interest in this interesting Canadian designed and built bush plane. During the next 20 years, in the pre-Internet and pre-Facebook era, ...

During one of the first days of the search, I was in the port side spotter seat of Buffalo SAR 456 when I saw bear paw prints high on a glacier in the Mount Waddington area (looked to me as having been made by the kind of bear paw snow shoes a pilot would have inside his aircraft. As SAR 456 had con...

SAR Mel Melissen Sep 1983 Central Mountain Air BN Islander C-GIPF In Sep 1983 my friend Mel Melissen disappeared on a flight between Campbell River and Smithers, BC; on board were six multi-millionaire fishermen/hunters from Germany and the U.S. Though we searched for aircraft and passengers for fi...

SAR Mel Melissen Sep 1983 Smithers BN Islander C-GIPF My good friend Mel disappeared on a flight between Campbell River and Smithers, BC; on board were seven multi-millionaire fishermen/hunters from the US and Germany. Though we searched for about 5 weeks, no trace was ever found. It is now 30 year...

Ahhhh... Superior/Severn Airways..... In the mid to late 70s while working for the Ministry of Natural Resources and later the Ontario Dept. of Mines and later again, with Noranda Exploration, I used to fly a lot with Superior out of the "Big Pickle" and later again (with Liz, an excellent pilot, by...

the Captain is a highly experienced Artcic/Antarctic pilot and we hope for the best.
Weather conditions hamper the search in mountainous terrain. Hopefully Bob managed to
put the aircraft down on some plateau there

To Kirsten B.

Could you please send me a copy (scan) of the article in the 23Nov Yellownifer?

dirk_septer@hotmail.com

Thanks

Dirk

Paul Laserich will be sadly missed not only in Yellowknife but all through the
Central Arctic.
I feel honoured that Paul always referred to me as "a friend of my dad's" or
"you're (part of our) family.

Dirk Septer

to the King of Obsolete:
during the winter of 1980, I worked north of Lynn Lake in the Barrington Lake area doing mineral exploration work for Noranda Exploration.
If interested, contact me directly at dirk_septer@hotmail.com

Husky CF-EIR was the last of 12 produced; this machine was never operated by the Saskatchewan Government (they had CF-SAQ). in July 1951, Nickel Belt sold it directly to C.A. Pitts General Contractor Ltd. of Toronto to use it on a contract with Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. Amongst others, the aircraft...

Re: the three Canadian registered TwinPins: I have collected pictures and all sorts of info on these three and published a number of articles about them in aviation magazines in Canada and the United Kingdom. Anybody who has questions re: the three Canadian-registered TwinPins or wants to share pict...

A total of SIX Husky aircraft were eventually converted to the bigger British Leonides engine: BQC; EIR (GCYV); EIM; SAQ; MAN and EIR. For the past 15 years I have collected pictures and stories (tall and otherwise) and technical info on the several other attempts to make a comeback with the Husky. ...

By coincidence, I just wrote an article about this Bristol CF-TFZ in the current March/April 2010 issue of Canadian Aviator (see regular column "North of Sixty.") It was operated by Pacific Western Airlines at the time (May 30, 1956), only two months after they had acquired it. I am writing a book o...