This Grumman Goose was photographed at Stewart Airport (CZST) while operating scheduled service to Prince Rupert. In the early 1980s, Jim Pattison Industries bought and merged several coastal airlines to form Air BC, including Trans-Provincial Airlines (TPA) which flew C-FEFN in this yellow colour scheme. When Air BC added new Dash 7 routes, most of its seaplane services (except DHC-6 routes) were transferred TPA, which became separate airline again. Steward is at the head of the Portland Canal which forms part of the border with SE Alaska. It is the northernmost coastal community in BC.

Sitting on the apron at its Port Hardy base, with a backdrop of the waters of the Queen Charlotte Strait and the mountains of the mainland, awaiting its next scheduled service for Pacific Coastal Airlines.

Enjoying the Island sunshine at its Port Hardy base, while awaiting its next scheduled service for Pacific Coastal Airlines.

Sold in Papua New Guinea as P2-JWB in August 1987. Tony Arbon photo

The Grumman Goose prototype, first flown on 29 May 1937. Delivered to private owners as NX16910 on 3 July and used for commuting to New York. The full type certificate was issued on 29 September and aircraft then became NC16910. Later rebuilt to G-21A. Sold to Aerovías Nacionales de Puerto Rico in 1940. Eventually used by US Corps of Engineers in Canada and reportedly buried at some remote site. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

To be shipped to Java for use by the Nederlands Nieuw Guinea Petroleum Maatschappij (NNGPM). Assembled at Surabaya - Morokrembangan. Delivered to Babo, NNG on 18 January 1940. Destroyed on 2 February 1942 by Japanese attack at 'Dobu', likely Dobo in the Aru Islands. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

This old bird hasn't flown for many years but in recent weeks it has been ground running both engines so hopefully a return to the skies might not be too far away.

E ZK-ERX, N5558, TF-ISR, USN 37809 (JRF-5). The original Grumman c/n was B-62, a new c/n being allocated in 1969 when it was converted to turboprop power by McKinnon.

A Grumman OA-9 with the US Air Force as 38-579 until sold in 1944. Sooke Forest Products operated this Goose 1974 to 1986 when they closed their lumber mill. Acquired by Coulson Logging / Coulson Helicopter in 1987, it was sold to Oakley Air in 1988. The aircraft crashed on approach to Squamish Airport, British Columbia in poor visibility on May 6, 1991.

Built as JRF1 V185 for the US Coast Guard. Sold as N95400 in 1954 and then CF-UAZ in 1966 with BC Airlines and later Trans Provincial Airlines. Re-registered C-FUAZ in 1978 and flew with Air BC and a private owner before joining Pacific Coastal Airlines in 1988. Since 2016 the aircraft has flown for Wilderness Seaplanes, a specialist division of Pacific Coastal Airlines based at Port Hardy at the northern end of Vancouver Island.

Built in 1944 as JRF5 37828 for the USMC. Operated in Alaska for the US Department of Fish and Wildlife from the 1960s until being sold to a private owner in 1974. Stored and derelict for many years at Lake Hood until being purchased and restored by its current owner.

Operated by Grosvenor Estates for the Duke of Westminster. It was converted to PT6 turbines in 1968, becoming C-FAWH on 6 September 1973 and returned to its original radial engine configuration in the early 1980s. Destroyed in a crash at Port Hardy, British Columbia, in 1986: the wreck is reported to be still in a scrapyard near there. The Canadian registration was cancelled on 20 November 1989.

Accepted by the British AF as FP495 in May-1942 as a Goose Mk1A. In 1945 it went to the US Navy as 66351. In Apr-1947 it became civil as NC1200V (registered as a G-21A). In Jan-1949 it became N1200V. In Jan-1965 it went to Canada as CF-RQI. Retractable McKinnon wingtip-floats fitted in 1965. It sank in an accident 29-Sep-1972. After rebuilt it became N62121 by 1975. To ZK-ENY in Oct-1977, DQ-FDQ in Oct-1982, back to ZK-ENY in Dec-1984, becoming VH-ENY in Jan-1989 and in Oct-1990 HS-TOM. In 1995 it was sold to Germany where it is under long-time restoration in Landsberied, last noted in 2020.

Built for the US Navy as 37823, it was diverted to the Canadian AF as Goose Mk2 392, delivered in Aug-1944. In May-1947 it became civil as CF-FEM (registered as a G-21A although a JRF-5 is a G-38). In Dec-1948 it became CF-BAE, in May-1977 C-FBAE, in Jan-1985 N91GS, in Sep-1993 N93GS, and in Apr-2007 C-GPCD. On 03-Aug-2008 it crashed onto a mountainside near Kyuquot Inlet, BC, on a flight from Port Hardy to Chamiss Bay. It caught fire on impact and was destroyed. The pilot and four of the six passengers were killed.

Built in 1944 as a US Navy JRF-5, 84793. N79914 served in Alaska from 1949 until 1969, and with AAB from 1969 until the company's demise in 1981. Stored as a parts source in Landsberied, Germany. Photo by: Harold Mayer / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Delivered to the RCAF in 1940 (926), this Goose was sold in 1945 as CF-BZY to Canada Veneers Ltd. It was a McKinnon turbo Goose after conversion in England (G-ASXG) in 1968.until retro-converted back to piston power by Air BC in 1985. Pictured on lease (or about to be leased) to Pacific Coastal Airlines, it crashed on take off at Rivers Inlet, BC on Mat 12, 1988.. Luckily, there were no fatalities among the seven people on board.

Trans-Provincial Airlines Goose pictured in their recently revised colors; the airline reversed the red and blue of their previous scheme. Trans-Provincial ceased flying in March 1993 and the aircraft was leased to Waglisla Air from June until it crashed on take-off at Prince Rupert, BC on December 4, 1993. The wreck was salvaged and the wings used to re-build Goose N327 / cn 1051.