Built in 2019 and here arriving from Seattle (KSEA).

Visiting from California.

Built in 2018 and here arriving from Seattle (KSEA).

Forest Industries Flying Tankers (FIFT) acquired the Grumman G-21A Goose (ex-Bu84806 and N62899) in April 1967 to support its water bomber operations using a pair of four-engine Martin Mars flying boats. Goose C-FVFS served with FIFT until 2000 and with its successor Flying Tankers Inc. until it was sold to Klaus Dieter Martin in Munich, Germany and ferried across the Atlantic in Nov. 2001 for use by European Seaplane Service in Croatia but was damaged when the gear collapsed in 2002. Registered to Victoria Aircraft Maintenance at CYYJ in Oct 2015 as C-FMXW. Cancelled/Exported in Nov. 2021.

This Cessna 180H was imported new to Canada in 1972 and was operated by in Newfoundland in the early 1980s (and perhaps earlier) until sold by Caribou Leasing Ltd to F B M Holdings Ltd in Terrace, British Columbia in May 1986. It was photographed wearing A Frame Logging Ltd. titles at the Seal Cove seaplane base in Prince Rupert, BC in January 26, 1987. It was last operated in Canada by Trans-Provincial in Prince Rupert before being cancelled from the CCAR in August 1994. Seal Cove was the town's main air gateway until the Digby Island airport opened in 1959.

Air Canada was the first international delivery of Boeing's 767 on October 30, 1982. This is their second aircraft delivered on December 14, 1982. It is pictured with Singapore '85 titles promoting a new Toronto to Singapore service via London and Bombay (Mumbai). The aircraft was retired in 2005 and stored at Marana, AZ. Sold to PMC Aviation in 2012 it was later broken up.

Latham Island Airways was associated with this Beaver from 1973 until it crashed near Watson Lake, YT in August 1984. The wreckage has been passed around to several owners and was in storage somewhere near Sedro Woolley, WA in 2000 or later. The remains are reported back in Canada as of 2020.

Cessna A185F, C-FCDD, is photographed shortly after landing in Vancouver Harbour on April 5, 1977. Airspan Flight Charter Ltd. operated DHC-2 Beavers (C-GASF, CF-CDT, CF-GCY) and Cessna seaplanes between 1974-1978 in the Vancouver area from bases at YVR and a dock on Commissioner Street at the east end of Vancouver harbour. This Cessna was operated by W.B. Management Ltd. of Burnaby, BC between October 1980 and February 1998, when it was cancelled from the Canadian civil aircraft register. The Airspan name was then adapted by new helicopter company established in BC the early 1980s.

Previously with Wildcat Helicopters (2006 - 16), this fire fighting Bell 212 was registered to Monashee Helicopters in April 2016. The helicopter has been with Papua New Guinea based Pacific Helicopters since September 2018 registered P2-PAP.

The Merlin III is a follow-on of the Merlin IIA and IIB. It utilized the nose and tail among other things from the Swearingen Metro under developement at the time. This aircraft was operated by the Hotel & Restaurant Employees union 1980 -89. Re-registered N901MC to McBee Company of Dallas in 1989, the aircraft is current with this registration (and new owner after 2013) at the time of uploading.

This Cessna A185F, C-GKNI, was imported to Canada in 1978 and operated by Tyee Airways Ltd., of Sechelt, BC from January 1990 to January 1993. It flew in the BC interior with Columbia River Shake & Shingle based out of Nakusp, then joined the fleet of Tyee's local rival Thunderbird Air (1987) Inc. in December 1987. Long-time Tyee Airways owner/pilot Al Campbell is standing next to the aircraft on the dock. In 2023, C-GKNI was still in commercial operation as part of the fleet of Amik Aviation Ltd. based at St. Andrews Airport, north of Winnipeg.

First with the Royal Canadian Air Force 1940 - 44, this Finch was exported to Mexico as XB-TUJ after World War II. Later to the USA, it returned to Canada in the 70s for a restoration and was donated to the Canadian Museum of Flight.

This Cessna A185E was imported to Canada in 1971 and was part of the fleet of Central Mountain Air Services in July 1983 when I flew in it from the floatplane base at Tyhee Lake to Fredrikson Lake to work on a mineral exploration project for Gerlie Gold. Our helicopter-accessible tent camp in the mountains was next to an old wooden prospectors cabin and much to my surprise the yard containing parts salvaged one the decades from the wreck of Junkers J.13, CF-ALX which crashed at nearby McConnell Lake on July 23, 1933; Most of CF-ALX was salvaged by WCAM in 1981. Now in the Technikmuseum Berlin.

Northern Thunderbird Air