Bradley Twin Otter Pictures

[station60]

Does anyone have any pictures of Bradley's Twin's form back in the day? I'm trying to put together a card for a fellow employee who just retired who flew with Bradleys for 30 years, mostly on the Twin Otter. Anything off strip would be great...

Thanks

[Flyboy757]

Did you try "Airliners.net"?

[bmc]

How much time do you have?
Who's retiring?

I lived in in YRB and YUX in the early 80's.

I have a snap somewhere of ASG on big wheels.

[ettw]

ASG was here in Frobe the other day in Air Tindi colours. It was my favourite offstrip machine next to seXXyB.

Cheers,

ETTW

[CL-Skadoo!]

I might as well do something constructive. Here's what a search revealed:





I'd really like a further explanation for this one. "Abandoned Stearman between Alert and the N. Pole"








A beauty!:

[Bushav8er]

Those are nice but Bradley was pre-First Air. All I have is a Bradley DC3 at carp.

[CL-Skadoo!]

If he worked there for 30 years, then his planes eventually said First Air on them as well.
I thought it was a good start, but alas, I have failed. Back to working on my tan.

[Rowdy]

Fantastic reg. C-FASS!!

ASG is now a borek machine apparently..

[bmc]

NAN and NDN were once upon a time Nordair machines.

Charlie GOES (C-GOES) was a fun registration.

If this guy was flying for Bradley's, the name First Air was written in light yellow in small print.

I'm dying to know who's retiring. If his time up north dates back to the early 80's, I will know him.

[casey]

ASS S/N 362 Is now C-FAIY flown by AI

[KT111]

ASS S/N 362 Is now C-FAIY flown by AI

ive seen that plane (AIY) in yfb

[blewhead]

ASG is now a borek machine apparently..

It's actually with Tindi, now in Tindi colors, was in First Air colors up until a few months ago

[wookie]

ASG is now a borek machine apparently..

It's actually with Tindi, now in Tindi colors, was in First Air colors up until a few months ago

And about 2 weeks ago was bought by KBAL.

[frozen solid]

You can't see the registration, but this picture is of C-FTFX. I have lots of pictures of this aircraft but my iphoto library is buggered up at the moment. I'll post more if I can later.

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PS. I think I know something about that Stearman. I met the guy when he went through Pickle Lake. He wanted to be "The First Black Man To Land A Stearman At The North Pole". Or something like that. He told a lot of tall tales, which I respect. He claimed to have been instructed in flying by Roscoe Turner, which, since he was only about 40 years old, I thought was a big fat lie, but maybe not, I don't know. To be honest my boss thought he was the greatest man that ever lived but I thought he was a bit of a dillhole. And he wasted a perfectly good Stearman.

[godsrcrazy]

If my old memory serves me correct. I believe TFX was first owned by Wardair. The Bristol freighter on the monument outside Yellowknife has the same registration. When Wardair shut down their Bush ops TFX went to Ptarmigan air. Ptarmigan was bought up by First air. First air ran that operation for a few years then sold their Yellowknife based twin otters to Arctic Sunwest. Some one told me not long ago Arctic Sunwest did a big avionics upgrade on it.

[frozen solid]

Oh yeah. I guess TFX was not a Bradley bird. I saw the picture of it above in First Air livery and posted without thinking.
You're right, it has been very well looked after, great avionics package. Sorry to hijack the thread. I forgot it was about Bradley aircraft when I saw all the first air colours.

[Seriously?]

Great pics posted on here, nonetheless....

[ettw]

Fantastic reg. C-FASS!!

ASG is now a borek machine apparently..

We owned C-FUGT at one point and were negotiating to lease C-FASS, it fell through but anyways, we mused the photographic outcome if you put them tail to tail with the leased one to the left and the other on the right.....

Cheers,

ETTW

[float ball]

C-FUGT has been a Borek machine for over five years now, it has just been hiding in the Maldives under the registration 8Q-MAR. It went back to FUGT in October when it came back to Canada for maintenance and is now in Turkey on Borek's contract there.

Borek did buy ASG recently, it went to YFB about a week and a half ago. When I saw it a couple days ago it was getting Tundra tires and a few other things then Borek will be running it out of YFB for the summer.

FB

[B757FO]

BBB can probably help me with some of these but I can explain a couple of those photos since I was there in a couple of them.

STEARMAN PHOTO

The boeing stearman was flown by Gus McLeod. He was an American guy who showed up in Resolute Bay back in 2000. Basically First Air set up an escort/fuel cache for the guy to get to Eureka then from there cached some fuel for him on the ice towards the north pole. Memory serves all was good until he landed on the sea ice for fuel. Fuelled up with bad fuel if I remember right then took off and had problems after that. We had 2 or 3 trips to the north pole that day for tour operators and he kinda piggy backed on us being up their as far as helping him along. I think he did fly over the pole because I remember talking to him on the radio and he was saying how cold he was. lol. I think it was south bound when he had the problems. He had to land on the ice and he was picked up by one of the crews heading southbound. The plane sat there and after that I believe it was flown out 2 weeks later but I can't remember exactly. Anyways the guy was pretty brave flying up there open cockpit. The heat on the twin was bad enough can't imagine being a convertable.


The ICE BREAKER

The photo of the ice breaker in the background was a science project funded by the University of Washington. It was frozen in the ice about 500 miles north of Barrow. They left point Barrow Alaska and took the ice breaker up and essentially froze it in the ice on purpose. They were there for 6 weeks I think. Floating around in the ice flow while conducting scientific tests etc evaluating the ocean floor etc. There were actually 2 twins there that day the other is out of the picture taking by the first officer. The planes came from Barrow to resupply with food equipment people etc.

Thats the best I can do perhaps others here can add more to the other ones.

[B757FO]

Fantastic reg. C-FASS!!

ASG is now a borek machine apparently..

We owned C-FUGT at one point and were negotiating to lease C-FASS, it fell through but anyways, we mused the photographic outcome if you put them tail to tail with the leased one to the left and the other on the right.....

Cheers,

ETTW

C-FASS was my favorite of the twins at First Air. If memory serves right it was the newest serial number twin First Air had in the end and had a weather radar also. Going back to far now but I remember it was a good machine.

B757FO

[B757FO]

Oh yeah. I guess TFX was not a Bradley bird. I saw the picture of it above in First Air livery and posted without thinking.
You're right, it has been very well looked after, great avionics package. Sorry to hijack the thread. I forgot it was about Bradley aircraft when I saw all the first air colours.

TFX was a First Air machine which i think came from PTarmigan Airways. We picked it up a Bar River painted new in the First Air livery in 2001. But I can't remember if it was yellow first but I am 99% sure it came from Ptarmigan.

B757FO

[CanadianEh]

My Dad used to work for them and here is some of his old photos. Enjoy.

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[ettw]

You had to love that built in refueling kit. It was a wonderful system even if you lost 75 pounds of payload. And quite frankly, doing that sort of work, how often did someone leave 75 pounds behind.

"Not to be used in flight" Ya right......

Cheers,

ETTW

[coldandwet]

Oh my GOD.....the memories that these pictures have stirred up.......with Bradley from 86-88......NDN built from ground up.......in good ole CARP during your supposed time back that seemed to get smaller each time you came back down....