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Take off prep. [A man clears snow off a Pacific Western airplane.]

Take off prep. [A man brushes snow off the tail of an airplane with a broom, two other men look on.]

Joe Atkinson and Jim McEvoy. Cessna 180. [Two men stand beside a Cessna 180 on skis, call sign CF-IYU.]

Being seen off at Lajeunesse Point. [A crowd of people on a hill look down towards an airplane, call letters CF-LPE.]

[A Fairchild 71C airplane sits nosed into the ice. Log buildings can be seen in the background.]

[A biplane on floats sits on a grassy shoreline. A boat, a wooden bridge, and a log building can be seen in the background.]

Les Dvorak Landing F.S. [Fort Simpson] Island. WAL [Wolverine Air Ltd.] purchased C-GHWO new, a Cessna 185, with floats and skis in 1976 for $50,000.. Landing on RWY [runway] 30 at FS [Fort Simpson] Island Airport. Totem Helicopter's hangar (owner Bob McBride) under left wing in picture. Operated by Bob Mc McBride [Cessna 185 C-GHWO lands in winter.]

Caribou. Ft. Simpson Hauling to Cadillac. deHavilland DHC-4 Caribou [A deHavilland DHC-4 Caribou approaches for landing.]

On Contract to Parks Canada Fire Bombers. B25 Mitchell on Parks Canada contract [A B-25 Mitchell airplane in a field in summer. The cockpit is covered with a cloth.]

Lake Landing on Wheels/Litte [light] Snow. West of Fort Simpson near Cli Lake. Some years with a dry freeze-up we could land on straight wheels on the ice until the snow came. [Wolverine Air's Cessna 185 C-GYIX sits on wheels in the snow. A warm cover is wrapped around the nose of the airplane. Mountains are visible in the distance.]

T-Beaver C-FOEZ Mackenzie R [River] - FS. [Fort Simpson] CF-OEZ [A deHavilland Turbo-Beaver (call number C-FOEZ) on the Mackenzie River near Fort Simpson in fall.]

C-FZUT in winter gear and plugged in ready to go. Temp was -40 which was our cut-off temp for operating piston engine aircraft. It was purchased in 1977 and sold Sept 1986 [An airplane in winter. Each of the two propellor engines is covered in an engine cover.]

Rabbitkettle Lake, NWT. Dropping off a canoe and two canoeists. [Five people on a dock near Cessna 185 C-GYIX. An aluminum canoe is strapped to the plane's left float.]

CF CIJ Twin Otter. Artic Air's Twin Otter at the base in FS [Fort Simpson]. It was used on charters on wheels only along with doing the PWA [Pacific Western Airlines] sched [scheduled flight] to Wrigley a number of times a week. Bill Grosnick was the FS based pilot [A Twin Otter sits parked in the snow outside an Arctic Air Ltd. hangar. Engine covers envelop the engines.]

Canso. Picture taken from CF-IZZ of CF-CRR in flight. [Avalon Aviation's Canso C-FCRR in flight. Photograph taken from the air.]

Canso. CF-CRR enroute to Fort Smith over Great Slave Lake. Following the accident in Red Deer earlier that season the right wing was replaced and the aircraft arrived in Yellowknife some 6 weeks late for the contract. A replacement right wing was located in Edmonton and you can see the original Air Force roundel on it. [A close-up of Avalon Aviation's Canso C-FCRR's propellors while in flight. Photograph taken from the air.]

Skin Boat Lakes, NWT. A charter for Nahanni Butte Outfitters to fly hunters back to NB [Nahanni Butte] [A Cessna 185 (call number C-GYIX) sits tied up to a small dock on a lake. Snow covers the ground among the trees and on the mountains in the background.]

Wrigley, NWT. Wolverine Air Cessna 185 C-GYIX at Wrigley Airport [A Cessna 185 (call number C-GYIX) sits on a hard-packed snowy runway.]

Norseman FS [Fort Simpson]. On the snye at Fort Simpson [A Norseman airplane (call number C-FSAN) sits in the snow at a distance.]

Little Doctor Lake NWT 79. Wolverine Air Cessna 185 C-GHWO at Gus Kraus's place [Wolverine Air Ltd.'s Cessna 185 (call number C-GHWO) sits in the snow in early spring. An engine cover is wrapped around the engine.]

F. [Fort] Simpson Dad + Ray March 1976. Arthur Garrish with Ray Horton at Wolverine Air's base in FS. Ray was a pilot with WAL [Two men stand in front of Wolverine Air Ltd.'s Cessna 185 (call number C-GHWO) in Fort Simpson.]

C-185 F. [Fort] Simpson. Spring arriving at Fort Simpson [A Wolverine Air Ltd. Cessna 185 (call number C-CHWO) sits in the mud. An engine cover is wrapped around the engine.]

Inco's Anson YK, 1979. The Anson, made of fabric and wood, was used on survey work [An Anson airplane (call number CF-HOT) sits facing the Wardair hangar in Yellowknife YZF in summer. A fuel drum marked "Dease" sits on its side near the airplane.]

Sched [scheduled flight] day at Wrigley, NWT. Simpson Air sched arriving in Wrigley from Fort Simpson. Islander C-FSAD [People gather near the tail of a Simpson Air Ltd. Islander airplane (call number CG-SAD). Some of the people stand on the bed of a pickup truck.]

Caribou F. [Fort] Simpson. Bob Ambrose operated a DHC-4 Caribou for a number of years. He did extensive flying out of Fort Simpson in the late 1970's early 1980's in support of the Cadillac Mine development on Prairie Creek, NWT [A DeHavilland Canada 4 (DHC-4) Caribou (call number C-GVYZ) in action on a runway in late fall.]