Trump Air S-61N, N223RA, loads passengers for Atlantic City at the West 30th Street Heliport (KJRA) in Manhattan, NY. This was one of three S-61Ns acquired from Greenlandair by Resorts International in 1984 to fly guests to their casinos. Trump acquired the S-61Ns when he bought the casinos and later added two Boeing 234s. The S-61N was imported to Canada in 1994 as C-FTIG by VIH Logging who had Helipo shortened the cabin. It also flew with VIH sister company Cougar Helicopters. It was exported to Brazil as PR-HRU in 2011 and reimported to Canada by Helicarrier Inc. as C-FIZA in 2015.

Vancouver Island Helicopters (VIH) won the first air ambulance helicopter contracts on the BC coast initially with a Bell 212 based at Seal Cove in Prince Rupert and one and then two Bell 222UTs based on the south coast at Vancouver International Airport. This aircraft (C-GVIU) was imported from Japan (JA9627) in Aug. 1992 and later exported to the US (N622F) in Oct 1998 and later exported to South Africa where it was broken up for parts, according to Rotorspot. Helijet later won the BC Ambulance contract and has flown Sikorsky S-76As and S-76Cs from bases at Seal Cove and YVR.

Sikorsky S-61N, C-FWYN operated by Coulson Aircrane is seen here hauling logs off mountain slopes just south of Stawamus Chief Mountain, a 700 m (2,297 ft) high granitic dome on the outskirts of Squamish, BC. It previously flew for Greenlandair as OY-HBJ, Resorts International and Trump Air as N221RA, before imported to Canada in 1992. About one month after this photo was taken the aircraft crashed at Canoe Creek, BC on April 2 during logging operations and was destroyed by fire after the No.2 engine lost all power due an uncontained failure of the power turbine, then No. 2 quit. Two injured.

This Found FBA-2C1 was registered to Found Aircraft of Canada Ltd. from June 2005 to June 2007 before it was cancelled from the Canadian aircraft register. It carries the titles of Weagamow Air.

Global Express XRS, C-FCSL, msn 9176, about to depart Runway 15 at Downsview Airport, Toronto on a test flight.

Lincoln Airlines was a US-based affiliate of Soundair Airlines of Toronto when this photo was taken in February 1990.

Found Brothers Aircraft resumed production of the FBA-2 after almost 30 years after the company went bankrupt in Toronto in the late 1960s. A new factory was at Parry Sound Municipal Airport and the aircraft marketed as the Bush Hawk. The company went bankrupt again after the 2008 Financial Crisis and the production rights and tooling was sold to PAC in New Zealand which was purchased by a Chinese investor. This aircraft as based in Fort Frances (CYA6) in 2021.

Air Toronto was an operating division of Soundair Corporation of which operated trans border flights between Toronto (YYZ) and 10 cities in the US between 1989 and 1991. The airline was originally known as Commuter Express but became Air Toronto after signing a codesharing agreement with AC in 1988 and adding Jetstream 31 and later JetStream 32s. Air Canada bought Air Toronto but the sale collapsed when Soundair went bankrupt in 1991. Canadian Airlines/Ontario Express then bought the routes the airline ceased flying by Oct. 1991. Pictured are C-GORB, C-FTAR, C-GBDR and C-GDBR.

Canadian Forces CH-113A Labrador, 11307, parked at the Canadian Coast Guard heliport at Kitsilano Beach, Vancouver. This aircraft started life as the first Canadian Army CH-113 Voyageur and became a SAR helicopter when the Canadian Forces acquired eight CH-147 Chinooks in the mid-1970s. All the CH-113 Labradors and Voyageurs went through an upgrade program at Boeing Canada Ltd. of Arnprior, Ontario to expand their SAR capability and increase fleet commonality. The last Labrador was retired in 2004 with the delivery of new AgustaWestland (Leonardo) CH-149 Cormorant SAR helicopters.

This MBB Bo 105 was delivered to the Canadian Coast Guard in October 1985 after completion at the new MBB Helicopter Canada Ltd. factory in Fort Erie, Ontario. It's seen here about to land on the Coast Guard heliport at Kitsilano Beach in downtown Vancouver. In 1985-1986, the Bo 105 replaced the Coast Guard's three long-serving single-engine Alouette III helicopters in British Columbia. The Coast Guard retired this aircraft in June 2018 when it took delivery of a new fleet of Bell 429s.

Canadian Forces CH-113 Labrador, 11307, from 442 Squadron is seen here parked on the Canadian Coast Guard Heliport at Kitsilano Beach as viewed looking west from the Burrard Street Bridge in downtown Vancouver. The heliport used to host frequent helicopter visits from the Canadian Coast Guard base and the Air Force until the wooden pile pier was destroyed in a fire and the heliport never rebuilt. Visiting Coast Guard and RCAF flights now utilize the Vancouver Harbour Heliport or a military heliport at HMCS Discovery, a naval base in the harbour on an island accessible from Stanley Park.

This ALC Airlift MBB Bo 105 C-GSTV is seen landing at the Expo 86 heliport in downtown Vancouver, BC. Airlift was trying to break into the air ambulance market in western Canada with the Bo 105 and BK117 and eventually won a contract to be the original helicopter provider to the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS) in Alberta. This helicopter was exported to the US in January 1989 as N750H. It was destroyed on the night of Dec 9, 1991 while flying a air ambulance mission from the Omniflight base at Ithaca, NY when it crashed at night near De Ruyter, NY with the loss of three lives.

This Royal Canadian Air Force Leonardo CH-149 Cormorant, 149908, from Canadian Forces Base Comox is seen here conducting winching practice in the mountains near Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island.

Canadian Armed Forces CH-113A Labrador 11304 operated by 442 Squadron departs the Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft base on the south side of (YVR) Vancouver Airport. Commencing in 1978, six CH-113 Labradors and 12 CH-113A Voyageur helicopters when through an upgrade program at Boeing Canada Ltd. of Arnprior, Ontario to expand their search and rescue (SAR) capability. Phase One was an "Interim Avionics Program" and Phase Two was "Search & Rescue Capability Upgrade Program (SARCUP)" during which all the aircraft received high visibility yellow paint.

In 1986, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency patrol boat Settsu sailed to Canada to attend Expo 86 in Vancouver, BC. While in Vancouver, the ship based Bell 212, JA9575, participated in a helicopter flypast of the Expo 86 site during Search & Rescue week. It's seen landing at the Canadian Coast Guard heliport at Kitsilano Beach. The heliport was later destroyed in a fire. This 212 was exported to Canada in 2015 and converted by Eagle Copters to a Eagle Single with the P&WC TwinPac replaced by a single Honeywell T5317A. It was flown by Yellowhead Helicopters as C-GJYH and is now N377PA.

After an accident in Nepal on Nov. 28, 2017, this Twin Otter was shipped to Canada in containers and rebuilt by Regent Aircraft Services Inc. in Calgary. It was sold to Harbour Air and registered C-GHHA on Feb. 18, 2020. The aircraft primarily flies the Harbour Air route between Vancouver and Victoria Harbour. In addition to carrying more people than the DHC-3T Turbo Otter, the two pilot aircraft is used to bring new pilots without a lot of float experience into the airline.

Era Helicopters acquired this Sikorsky S-61N from KLM Helikopters during the prior of the KLM Era joint venture (1991-1998). In 2008 is was flying from Galveston to deepwater oil exploration rigs drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. It later flew in Brazil (PR-AEL) before being acquired by Croman Helicopters of Oregon (N619CK).

This Sikorsky S-61N started life with British European Airways as G-ASNL and the fuselage was later shortened by Carson Helicopters in Perkasie, Penn. to increase its lift capacity. It was displayed at Heli-Expo 2008 inside the George R. Brown Convention Center and departed from a temporary heliport after the show. It is outfitted with an external water tank for fire fighting. It later flew overseas on behalf of the US State Department (as N220WW) until retired and sold to Croman Helicopters (re-registered N626CK) for use on heli-logging and firefighting contracts.

This Dash 8-400 (C-FMTY, msn 4179) was photographed on final approach to Runway 33 at Downsview Airport, Toronto following a test flight. It was delivered to Flybe in November 2007 and assigned the registration G-JECZ.

I photographed this Robinson R-44 II, C-FLWP, flying over the Thousand Islands International Bridge spanning the St. Lawrence River between Canada and the US from the open door of a second Robinson R44, C-FERT. It took several orbits over the River to get the R44 exactly where I wanted it over the Bridge for use in an article I was writing for Verticalmag.com