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Tungsten, NWT Looking S/E. Alkan Air Navajo on charter from Whitehorse [Alkan Air's Piper (presumably C-GMRG) faces a long gravel airstrip. Mountains are visible in the background.]

N.W. [northwest] YK [Yellowknife] 1977 Pilot Ray Taylor Canso. The Cansos landed on a lake some 40 miles nw of Yellowknife and remained on standby in case the fire got more active. Ray Taylor was the Captain of this Canso. He was from Newfoundland as were a number of the Avalon Aviation Canso pilots including Carl Clouter and Terry Oake. [Canso airplane sitting on the water. Two people stand on top of the wings. The person on the right holds a fishing rod.]

C-185. Al Jasmine's birddog aircraft 1978 [View from the air of CF-UGX in flight.]

Over Great Slave 1978. CF-CRR was delayed deploying to Yellowknife for the 1978 fire season due to a training accident at Sylvan Lake near Red Deer. The aircraft water looped and the right wing had to be replaced. Bob Murdoch found someone with spare Canso wings from the air force in Edmonton. The replacement wing still has the military roundel on it. [Aerial view of Avalon Aviation Ltd's Canso (call number C-FCRR) flying over Great Slave Lake. The right wing has been replaced.]

Canso Drop YK [Yellowknife] Airport 79. A demonstration drop t [at] Yellowknife Airport. [Side view of a Canso (call number C-FGLX) dropping water. The water appears red. Four people watch from the ground.]

Al Jasman Pine Point Crew Rest. The 2 Cansos based in Yellowknife had a Cessna 185 amphib [amphibious] birddog as part of the group. 1978 and 1979 Al Jasmine of Alberta had the contract with his aircraft. This picture is Al having a rest from fire operations at the Pine Point Airport. [A man lies on his side on the ground facing an airplane wheel. He is in the shadow of the airplane wing above him.]

DC-6 [View of airplane in flight among dark clouds, possibly smoke.]

Yellowknife, T. [Turbo] Beaver Ptarmigan Airways. C-FRDA deHavilland Turbo-Beaver taking off in Yellowknife Bay. Prior to Ptarmigan Airways owning this aircraft it was owned by Arctic Air Ltd and flew out of Fort Simpson and Fort Nelson. [A Ptarmigan Airways Ltd deHavilland Turbo-Beaver (call number C-FRDA) during takeoff or landing on the water.]

Norseman SAN Snye F. [Fort] Simpson Late 1970's Simpson Air CFSAN. Simpson Air (the Tweeds) operated this Norseman for a number of years. In this case it was put on straight skis to haul fuel drums to Trout Lake. The aircraft was severely damaged during a rejected takeoff from the Town Strip in 1982. The pilot attempted to takeoff without clearing snow off the wings first. When he realized that it was not going to fly he rejected the takeoff. One brake was not working properly so the aircraft exited the runway into the ditch. [Simpson Air's Norseman (call number C-FSAN) sits on skis in the snow.]

Otter on Macken [Mackenzie] R. at F. [Fort] Simpson [An Otter airplane near the shoreline of the Mackenzie River.]

Fuelling WAL Islander CF-ZUT at Fort Simpson [A person wearing a "Wolverine Air Ltd." jacket stands on a stepladder in front of a Wolverine Air Ltd. Islander airplane, facing away from the photographer. A fuel hose is visible on the ground.]

Pilatus Porter Wrigley, NWT. Same as slide 22-C-FWZO Pilatus Turbo-Porter in the ice on the Mackenzie River directly below the Wrigley Airport. The aircraft had been leased from a Springbank, AB firm and was being operated by Simpson Air when the engine failed on a flight into Wrigley. The pilot Pete Cowie landed it safely on the river and beached it on the shore. No attempt was made to remove the aircraft until freeze-up started one Sunday in November. The aircraft floats had been damaged when the ice moved the aircraft. Mansell Paterson and Doug Rowsome were able to eventually remove the aircraft to the airport with a cat where it was disassembled and trucked to Calgary. [Simpson Air Ltd's Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter (call number C-GWXZO) stuck in the ice. Two men working to free the airplane. View from the side rear.]

CF-WZO at Wrigley [Simpson Air Ltd's Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter (call number C-GWXZO) stuck in the ice. Two men working to free the airplane. View from the side rear.]

CF-WZO at Wrigley [Simpson Air Ltd's Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter (call number C-GWXZO) stuck in the ice. Two men working to free the airplane. View from the front.]

Bristol Freighter Wardair, YK [Yellowknife] 1977. A Wardair Bristol freighter was the first aircraft to land at the geographic north pole piloted by Don Braun. Wardair lost a Bristol at Hay River when the load of siding for the YK courthouse shifted on takeoff and the aircraft then crashed. Nov 1977 [A Bristol Freighter parked in front of the Wardair hangar at the Yellowknife Airport YZF.]

DC-3 F.S. [Fort Simpson] Arctic Air DC-3 sched [scheduled flight] taxiing on the Fort Simpson Island Airport fall 1973. Arctic Air ran a sched flight several times a week from Fort Nelson-Fort Liard- Fort Simpson and return. There was no road into Fort Laird [Liard] at this time. The road into Fort Simpson had just opened in 1972. The opening was officiated over by Jean Chretien then Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs. [A DC-3 from Arctic Air (call number CF-HBX) on a gravel runway. Two helicopters can be seen in the grassy field on the left.]

B-25 Smith. Tim Garrish in the cockpit of the B-25 [Tim Garrish sits in the cockpit of a "Northwest Lands & Forest Service" B-25 Mitchell airplane.]

C-FCRR Heading for F. [Fort] Smith [Avalon Aviation's Canso C-FCRR in flight. Photograph taken from the air.]

PWA [Pacific Western Airlines] Yellowknife. PWA Boeing 727 that was used regularly in support of PanArctic Oil Ltd's drilling operations at Rea Point on Melville Island. Taking off Runway 08 Yellowknife [A Boeing 727 from Pacific Western Airlines on the runway at the Yellowknife Airport YZF.]

Simpson Air's Trislander, F.S. [Fort Simpson] [Simpson Air Ltd's Trislander (call number C-GSAA) on a runway in fall.]

Simpson Air's Norseman Ft. Simpson/78. Norseman C-FSAN at the Simpson Air dock on the Mackenzie River at Fort Simpson [A Norseman tied to a dock in late fall.]

T. [Tim] Garrish Islander./78. In the yard at Wolverine Air on the Fort Simpson Island Airport [Tim Garrish stands in front of an Islander airplane.]

Gus Kraus' Cabin Little Doctor Lake. Some years with a dry freeze up you could land on the ice with wheels only before the snow came. [Wolverine Air Ltd.'s Cessna 185 (call number C-GHWO) sits on the snow outside of a log cabin. An engine cover wraps around the airplane's engine. An upturned scow can be seen between the airplane and the cabin.]

Canso. Practice drop beside Runway 26 at Yellowknife. [An Avalon Aviation Ltd. Canso airplane (call number C-FGLX) demonstrates a practice drop of fire retardant in summer.]

Wolverine Air's Piper Seneca 2 at Tungsten, NWT looking se [southeast] [A man stands next to a Piper airplane owned by Wolverine Air Ltd. Snow-covered mountains can be seen in the distance.]