Beaver CF-MAZ was delivered new to the Manitoba Government Air Service in May 1960 and based at Lac du Bonnet. In 1986 it was operated by Powell Air when it participated in the Expo 86 bushplane rally which included a water taxi parade past the Expo 86 site on the north side of Vancouver's False Creek, including the Aviation Plaza (seen behind). Oddly, the Canadian civil aircraft register doesn't record it with Powell Air between its sale by Aklak Air in June 1983 and its purchase by Pacific Coastal Airlines in Apr. 1989. In 2022, it was flying with Wilderness Seaplanes in Port Hardy, BC.

This 1942 Piper J3C 65 Cub was the smallest aircraft to participate in the Expo 86 Bushplane Flypast on ay 5, 1986. It was owned by The Hon. Stephen Rogers, a cabinet minister in the BC provincial government, and the member of a wealthy family that owned a sugar refinery. It is seen here about to takeoff from the Fraser River next to Pitt Meadows Airport (YPK) for a flight over the Expo 86 site in downtown Vancouver. The aircraft was imported to Canada in 1974 and in 2021 was still owned by a pilot in the Vancouver area.

MacMillian-Blodel Forest Products was the largest forestry company in British Columbia and operated a pair of Grumman G-21A Goose (C-FIOL, ex-RCAF 397 and C-FHUZ, ex-RCAF 393) for several decades to transport executives and employees between Vancouver Airport and its timber mills on the BC coast, many of which were equipped with seaplane ramps. Goose C-FIOL was one of 23 participants in the Expo 86 Bushplane Flypast on May 5, 1986. In 2021 it was flying with Wilderness Seaplanes based at Port Hardy on the north end of Vancouver Island (which also owns C-FHUZ for parts).

John A. Schwamm flew his Grumman G-44A Widgeon, N32BB, to Vancouver, BC to participate in the Expo 86 Bushplane Flypast of the Expo 86 site in downtown Vancouver on May 5, 1986. Most of the 23 participating aircraft took off from Pitt Meadows airport and the adjacent seaplane base and 11 aircraft landed on the ocean in English Bay to water taxi past the Expo exhibition site. This aircraft stalled and crashed into the sea off Ventura, CA while taking photos of a sailboat race almost a year later on April 12, 1987.

Pat Donovan flew his Stinson SR Junior, NC13477, to Vancouver, BC to participate in the Expo 86 Bushplane Flypast on May 5, 1986. The aircraft spent its early life in the northeast United States and later flew in Alaska on floats. It's now displayed at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field, Seattle.

This Grumman G-21 Turbo Goose aircraft was converted to P&WC PT6A-20 turboprops by McKinnon Enterprises of Sandy, OR for the Government of British Columbia. It was later operated by Airwest (alongside C-FAWH) and Air BC (Pattison Industries) in Vancouver before it was sold to Crown Forest Industries in June 1984. It was one of 23 aircraft that participated in the Expo 86 Bushplane Flypast on May 5, 1986. It's seen water taxing past the Expo 86 Aviation Plaza on False Creek in downtown Vancouver. As Pen Air's N660PA it crashed into the sea off Dutch Harbour, Alaska on August 11, 1996.

Norseman Mk IV CF-BTC flown by Zane Palmer from Fort McMurray, AB water taxis past the Britain pavilion at Expo 86. It was one of 23 aircraft to participate in the Expo 86 Bushplane Flypast over the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communications in Vancouver, BC, on May 5, 1986. Eleven of the aircraft then landed on the ocean in English Bay and water taxied into False Creek so they could be viewed by the public from the main Expo 86 exhibition It was acquired by the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, MB in 1998.