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NWO Ontario Savant Lake

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Anyone left flying here for external load work? Don't see any heavy lifters left in the area. Who replaced West Caribou and Lattos?
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Rusty Myers still has a base on sturgeon lake don't they?
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What lake/area do you need to get into? Around Savant or south?
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Boat caches on the Flindt River system north of Allen Water and desire to go west of highway around Hooker Lake. Staunton lake bases, were 2 of them seem to be caput! What happend no business? I used them plenty.
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WCA closed up last year and Lattos being gone is news to me (but it should have happened years ago). I have heard that someone was going to try and use the WCA Staunton base for a new venture but never heard anything beyond that and it wasn't from a necessarily reliable source. Rusty Myers on sturgeon or slate falls in YXL or North Star in ypl (do they still have turbine otters?) may be your choices.
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Lattos still there with only a 180. Not sure who or what they have to move alot of people. Will check with Rusty.
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cdnpilot77 wrote:WCA closed up last year and Lattos being gone is news to me (but it should have happened years ago). I have heard that someone was going to try and use the WCA Staunton base for a new venture but never heard anything beyond that and it wasn't from a necessarily reliable source. Rusty Myers on sturgeon or slate falls in YXL or North Star in ypl (do they still have turbine otters?) may be your choices.
Nope, they crashed the otter and sold the van. Slate Falls has 2 otters in YXL.
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Nope, they crashed the otter and sold the van. Slate Falls has 2 otters in YXL.
What? Somebody thumped in CQA? :( Is she repairable? Lots of fun times on that machine. Woodgie/R2, are you out there?
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North Shore wrote:
Nope, they crashed the otter and sold the van. Slate Falls has 2 otters in YXL.
What? Somebody thumped in CQA? :( Is she repairable? Lots of fun times on that machine. Woodgie/R2, are you out there?
I do remember seeing that Otter in the corner of the hangar at springer aerospace a few years back total write off, didn't know if they had another one in YPL. It was a gear down water landing if I remember correctly. The roof of the cockpit was caved in pretty bad, the pilots (I believe there was a swamper on board) were very lucky
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There is no one around Savant that does external loads, Rusty doesn't do it. I think Slate Falls (if they will even do it with the otter) is your closest choice.
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We can certainly take external loads on the Turbo Otter!

Our STC permits us to carry up to 4 passengers provided a boat/canoe meets certain specs. Apart from that, it'd have to go without passengers and comply with all the other CARs nonsense... proving flight, etc.

Feel free to give us a call or drop me an email to discuss. I don't check avcanada often; replying on here probably won't get to me!

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North Shore wrote:
Nope, they crashed the otter and sold the van. Slate Falls has 2 otters in YXL.
What? Somebody thumped in CQA? :( Is she repairable? Lots of fun times on that machine. Woodgie/R2, are you out there?
Someone landed her gear-down, on Obashi Lake, I think. Woodgie is on "face-book". I'm not sure if he still flies or not. What a drag, eh?
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Crying shame...

A pic from better days. :)
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Bamaji Air operates a C-185 in Staunton/Savant Lakes. It is available for charter work in the area. We also have a full rack STC'ed Beaver that is available to fly boats, canoes and lumber with passengers.
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What happened to WCA? When I left the area in 2011 they were busier than hell and I thought they got their own DHC-3T with a Walter on the front?
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nearly 3mill in outstanding debt to creditors and the failure of ring of fire development (for the medium to long term ) see issues re Mackenzie pipeline approval for a reference and time line 37yrs did wca in
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Old, there were some internal issues as well where there was supposed to be more money in the bank than there was. I will leave it at that.
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Oldncold's response is pretty tame and PC. Let's go with that one. Yes 3 million in debt and the overall failure of the ROF. Nothing else, nothing....... :lol:
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