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[may. Etaketue. Airplane CF-]SLA crash, Bern Will Brown and Cessna 180. 1981

[No location.] Wrecked [CF-TFO airplane, Cessna Skymaster on side in snow] 337. 1972

[View of broken airplane with crushed front and wings removed, call number CF-DTB. Possibly a Douglas DC-3. A brick building is in the background.]

Plane that cracked up on the Wop May River 1930 Sam Otto [The shell of an overturned wrecked Fairchild floatplane G-CARH lies on the ground in winter. The floats are bent. Airplane crashed near Great Bear Lake July, 1932]

Wardair Hangar YK. Yellowknife, Now the Buffalo Airway's hangar [An airplane sits in front of a hangar at the Yellowknife Airport in winter.]

Otter preparing to land in Starvation Cove to drop David Patriquin who spent some time at the Keyhole Lake field station. The R.C.M.P. Spalding and the [M.V.] Salvelinus are tied up side by side. Dease Strait and Kent Peninsula are visible in the distance.

Terra Mines DC-3 YK [Yellowknife] 79. Terra Mine's DC-3 getting maintenance in Yellowknife summer 1979 [Two men work on the propellor engine of a DC-3.]

(Travel, Planes) This is a picture of one of the finest planes used in the Northland. It is a large twin-engine plane and the Bishop of Athabasca rode in this plane from Yellowknife to Fort Smith. Here it is tied to a wharf just at the foot of the rapids. Notice how swiftly the water is flowing. This plane will hold 12 passengers, --all seated. Formerly passengers were asked to sit on the floor of the plane or on baggage, anywhere in fact, but now we have these new planes. [Mackenzie Air Services Barkley Grow TP8-1, CF-BTX is tied up near the Slave River Rapids. People are seen entering/exiting the floatplane down a ladder and two men are standing outside on the dock near the airplane's nose.]

[Canadian Airways Junker W 34, CF-ARI on the river at Fort Norman (Tulita), Northwest Territories.]

[A Canadian Vickers Vedette airplane likely on the Yukon River in Dawson City, Yukon.]

Engine Change Daryl Murakami on Ladder Sept 79 Bruce Dyson. On occasion the Pratt and Whitney 1830 radial engines would need a cylinder or worse an engine change. The right engine failed on CF-IZZ (Tanker 5) on the ferry flight south at the end of the season over Great Slave Lake. (Piloted by Capt Tim Garrish and FO Tom Daniel) The aircraft returned to Yellowknife on one engine. The failed engine was changed by Engineer Bruce Dyson and helper Daryl Murakami. [Bruce Dyson (left) and Daryl Murakami (right) work on an Avalon Aviation Ltd Canso engine.]

Changing a Jug Canso. Cylinder change on the PW-1830 engine. [A man works on the engine of a Canso airplane.]

YK [Yellowknife] Canso Eng. Change 79. Bruce Dyson (engineer) on right, Daryl Murakami with his back to camera. [Bruce Dyson and Daryl Murakami work on repairs to an engine of an Avalon Aviation Ltd. Canso airplane.]

Canso YK [Yellowknife] Sept 79. Engine change on Avalon's Tanker 5 CF-IZZ Sept 1979 Yellowknife. On the last flight of the season from Yellowknife to Hay River then Red Deer the engine started failing enroute to Hay River. The aircraft returned to Yellowknife. Pilots were Capt [Captain] Tim Garrish and FO [Forward Officer] Tom Daniel. Engineer working on the engine change is Daryl Murakami. [Three people, including Bruce Dyson and Daryl Murakami, work on repairs to an engine on an Avalon Aviation Ltd. Canso airplane.]

2 plane tickets for Ole Hagen from Edmonton to Yellowknife dated December 4, 1936 and from Yellowknife to Edmonton dated January 8, 1937. Mackenzie Air Service Limited.

Arrival in Starvation Cove from Cambridge Bay by rented Otter from Northward Aviation for the beginning of the 1968 season and unloading of scientific equipment. This photograph, part of Jean Boulva 1964-68 Salvelinus collection, was taken by an unidentified member of the team. [CF-IKK?]

Getting Ready to Fly Into Park. Pete Cowie with a canoe for a flight into the park. Pete is on the left with his arm up on the aircraft facing the two with their backs to the camera [A group of men gathers next to a docked Cessna 185. A red canoe is tied to the left float of the Cessna.]

Ft. [Fort] Simpson. Cessna 185 preparing for takeoff with a canoe on the Mackenzie R. [River] at FS [Fort Simpson]. [A Cessna 185, in the middle of the Mackenzie River, loaded with a canoe on the left float .]

[A Man stands in front of two airplanes on a frozen lake, CF-BKV (Bellanca 66-76 Aircruiser) and CF-BBB (Beech C17R).]

WAL Base C-185 -40. Fort Simpson Island Airport looking southeast [Wolverine Air Limited's Cessna 185 (call number C-GHWO) sits near another airplane in winter. The other plane's call number is mostly obscured, and only C-G is visible. Two barrels, a broom, and a ladder on its side are visible in the foreground.]

YK [Yellowknife] Tanker base Canso DC-6 79 [Three airplanes (Conair) near a paved runway. A forklift, oil drums, and a van surround the airplanes. A hangar building is visible in the background on the right. YZF]

YK [Yellowknife] Tanker Base 79. Two of Avalon's Cansos and a Conair DC-6 that was based out of Hay River. [Three airplanes near a paved runway. Oil drums, a van, and a helicopter surround the airplanes. To the left of the van is a sign that reads "Northern Affairs Program Air Tanker Base". A man walks to the right of the van. YZF]

Hay R. [River] 1979. Cansos working the Pine Point fire refueling in Hay River. Doug Reid was one of the Captains and Jim Olsen was flying a birddog. Bob Pettus, an active school teacher in Ontario, came up to finish the contract for one of the Yellowknife Cansos after Tom Collins was fired by the Chief Pilot for Avalon Aviation Walter Zoschke. Tom had disregarded instructions and came close to having a mid-air collision with another Canso. [Three Avalon Aviation Ltd Cansos, including call number C-FCRR, sit tip to tail on a tarmac.]

Canso's Hay River Aug [August] 79. Avalon Aviation was a Red Deer based fire bombing firm operating up to 9 PBY-5A Canso aircraft. The owner, Bob "Moose" Murdoch, bought the salvage rights to the wreckage of the two Cansos that collided killing all 4 pilots over a fire near Pine Point in Sept 1971. Avalon had contracts in Ontario, Chile, and two aircraft based in Yelloknife [Yellowknife] until 1980. [Four Avalon Aviation Ltd Cansos sit side by side in a sandy area.]