Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has operated aircraft in Algonquin Park since the 1920s. The hangar at the Smoke Lake Airbase on the south side of Highway 60 was constructed in 1939. It has been the home of a DHC-2 Beaver or DHC-2 Mk III Turbo Beaver since the Ontario Provincial Air Service (OPAS) - the launch customer for both - took deliver of its first Beaver in 1948. Turbo Beaver C-FOEH has been based here for 20+ years, but is maintained at Muskoka Airport. With the introduction of amphibious floats in the 1990s, the docks at the air base were removed.

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