Bristol Photos

Coastal Cowboy · Post by **Coastal Cowboy** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:17 pm

Anyone seen those shots of the Bristol Freighter on the photo site? Was wondering if anyone knew how it got there? who it belonged to before it became a Boathouse etc.

The shots were posted just recently.

Cheers,

CC

bronson · Post by **bronson** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:45 am

Which photo site is that?

linecrew · Post by **linecrew** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:18 am

bronson wrote:Which photo site is that?

Avcanada's photo section:

http://www.avcanada.ca/albums/thumbnails.php?album=1

bronson · Post by **bronson** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:40 am

Thanks, I think that may have belonged to Nort Coast out of Pr. Rupert, went through the ice around Whitehorse somewhere many years ago....

klimman123 · Post by **klimman123** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:42 am

The Bristol Freighter is laying on the shore of Beaver Lodge Lake in NWT. About 150nm nw of Yellowknife. From what I could find out, it seems it went through the ice one year while servicing a uranium mine in the 60's. It was hauled on shore and salvaged. Heard it belonged to Max Ward back in the day. I didn't get a chance to poke around her or find out it's regristration. Found it just 3wks ago. I took the photo while taxing on the water. And last week I met Max Ward but I completly forgot to ask him about it.

Cheers

Coastal Cowboy · Post by **Coastal Cowboy** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:03 pm

Cool thanks Klimman,

I always love stumbling across wrecks like that. always stimulates a funny curiosity especially when they are out in sparsely populated areas.

Anyone else have any shots of old heaps they want to post? I saw the photos of the aero commander in the dump up in hall beach.

CC

bandit1 · Post by **bandit1** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:35 pm

How was Max Ward? Cool guy? Must have alot of stories to tell

GA MX Trainer Dude · Post by **GA MX Trainer Dude** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:17 pm

Is It Possible??? That this aircraft is CF-TFZ - Pacific Western Airlines - that crashed 30 May, 1956 and is still there????

This was the only reference to Beaverlodge Lake in the accident data base!!!

Hard to believe that the Biffo could have survived that long!!

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... -1&lang=en

canuck10 · Post by **canuck10** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:05 pm

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 on the history of the Bristol Freighter in Canada and wlecome photographs, comments etc. from people who operated, flew and maintained them.

Dirk Septer, P.O. Box 1000, Whaletown, BC V0P 1Z0

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:41 pm

I have this for you Dirk.

Here's another one. Got to dig in my logs for the location and story. This wreckage is a couple hundred miles north of Yellowknife.

Giles

Kilo-Kilo · Post by **Kilo-Kilo** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:09 pm

Here's photos of the actual accident:Bristol Through Ice

HS-748 2A · Post by **HS-748 2A** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 1:18 am

bronson wrote:Thanks, I think that may have belonged to Nort Coast out of Pr. Rupert, went through the ice around Whitehorse somewhere many years ago....

That was at a lake called "Baker Lake", no relation to the Baker Lake, NWT. It sank to the bottom and has never been found. The reg was CF-UME.

It was owned by Northcoast Air Services (Jack Anderson) out of Prince Rupert. That is correct.

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