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Caribou. Ft. Simpson. Bob Ambrose landing his DHC-4 Caribou on Runway 12 at the Fort Simpson Island Airport 1980. Construction of the Cadillac Mines mill at Prairie Creek was under construction and Bob was hauling freight into the mine site. [A DeHavilland Canada 4 (DHC-4) Caribou (call number C-GVYZ) in action on a runway in late fall.]

Bob Ambrose's Caribou, Ft. Simpson [A DeHavilland Canada 4 (DHC-4) Caribou (call number C-GVYZ) on a runway in late fall.]

Offloading Fuel 5000 Gallons Internal Tank [A Pacific Western Airlines Hercules (call number C-FPWN) sits with its ramp open in winter. A hydraulic pump sits on the open ramp.]

PW [Pacific Western] Herc 383. CF-PWN MSN 4129 operated as 383 for PWA from 1969-1984 [View from the front of a Pacific Western Airlines Hercules airplane, including the propellors and most of the wingspan. The stairs are open on the right of the frame.]

Hercules. Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) operated Hercules L-100 aircraft for many years. They were instrumental in support of the petroleum drilling program of Panarctic Oils Ltd in the Sverdrup Basin in the high arctic. [A Pacific Western Airlines Hercules sits in the snow at Rea Point Base, Nunavut.]

BZY, Formerly of Arctic Air Ltd. Bryant Aviation Fort Nelson [Simpson Air Ltd’s Cessna 185 (call number C-FBZY) sits on pavement.]

WAL [Wolverine Air Limited] C-FZUT Islander FS [Fort Simpson] Island Airport 1978 [Wolverine Air Ltd.’s Islander (call number C-FZUT) sits in the snow.]

Simpson Air Islander 1979 FS [Fort Simpson] Island [Simpson Air Ltd.’s Islander (call number G-GSA?) lands on a gravel airstrip.]

Ft. [Fort] Simpson Island A/P [airport] C-185 T/O [take-off] [Wolverine Air Ltd.’s Cessna 185 (call number C-GHWO) on a gravel airstrip in summer.]

CL-215 1st Test Fire Foam Drop - Inuvik 1986 [A CL-215 airplane (call number C-GBPD) drops water in flight.]

Canso at Yellowknife Avalon Aviation [An Avalon Aviation Canso airplane sits on a gravel surface near a paved runway.]

Simpson Air's Norseman on Mackenzie R @ FS [River at Fort Simpson] [Simpson Air Ltd’s Norseman airplane (call number C-FSAN) sits at a dock on the Mackenzie River in fall.]

Anson YK [Yellowknife] Inco's Survey A/C [aircraft] [An Anson airplane sits on a paved surface in summer.]

S. [South] Nahanni R. [River] above the falls. Parks Canada personnel and their scow. Parks had a warden cabin at Sunblood 5 miles or so upstream from the falls [Two people stand in a scow next to Cessna 185 C-GYIX.]

Parks HDQ's [headquarters]. Nahanni Butte Dick Turner's Strip Across From NB [Nahanni Butte]. Approaches from nw [northwest] or se [southeast]. Strip was approximately 900' long. Good for Cessna 185, 206, Islander and Turbo-Beaver. Strip got very muddy in the spring when frost came out of the ground. [Wolverine Air Limited's Cessna Skywagon C-GHWO sits in the snow with an engine cover wrapped around the nose. Mountains are visible in the background.]

Tungsten, NWT. Looking southeast down the Flat River [Alkan Air's Piper C-GMRG faces a long gravel airstrip. Mountains are visible in the background.]

Pick-Up Picking up a load. Canso on a water scooping run. [Aerial view of a Canso airplane picking up water for fighting forest fires.]

Twin Row Radial. Pratt and Whitney 1830 radial engine. They failed from time to time. This is the same engine in the DC-3 [A close-up of an airplane engine. A person's elbow and rolled up sleeve are visible on the right.]

Bombing Snowdrift. Small shoreline fire. [A Canso airplane approaches the shoreline near Lutselk'e. Water is already being released from the aircraft.]

Loading B-25's Ft. Smith 79 [Refueling. A man crouches under an airplane holding a hose.]

Wardair's Dash 7 YK [Yellowknife]. Wardair was the first operator of the deHavilland DHC-7 aircraft in Canada. The first aircraft was brought into service in 1978. The second Dash 7 was added in 1979. Wardair closed their northern operations in Oct 1979 [A person works on the wing of a Wardair Dash-7 on a paved runway at YZF.]

Twin Otter Rescue ZF YK [Yellowknife] [Canadian Forces Twin Otter Rescue aircraft 804 sits parked on a paved tarmac YZF airport.]

Little Doctor Lake NWT. Wolverine Air's Cessna C-GUAK at Little Doctor Lake with ? [Tim Garrish stands on the left float of Wolverine Air's Cessna 185 Skywagon II (call number C-GUAK). The plane sits along the shoreline.]

Otter on Mackenzie R. [River] Carter Air Service out of Hay River [A Carter Air Services Ltd. Otter on the Mackenzie River.]

Simpson Air on the Mackenzie River at Fort Simpson as ice is flowing. End of float season. [A man stands on a dock next to a Cessna 185 (likely call number C-GYHM). Sheets of ice float on the water around the dock and the plane.]