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).

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.

Trans-Provincial Airlines was acquired by the Pattison Group in the early 1980s when Air BC was formed but operated as a separate division primarily serving the north coast of British Columbia. The main base of operations was the former wartime RCAF seaplane base at Seal Cove in Prince Rupert. Goose CF-EFN operated on the BC coast from the early 1970s until Feb 28, 1991 when it was damaged when it ground looped on landing at Sandspit Airport (CYZP). The wreck was acquired by the Tongass Historical Society in Ketchikan (AK) in 1992 as N88821, and was still under restoration for static display with them by 2022.

Operated by the State of Alaska from 1976 until 1996. Involved in two crashes, one in March 1994 and another at Unalaska in April 2008, by which time it was flying with Anchorage based Penninsula Airways. Sold to an owner in New York state in 2009 and still current on the US register at time of upload

Bu 37830 delivered to the RCAF October 1944, this Goose remained in the Air Force until 1956. Becoming CF-HUZ and later C-FHUZ, it flew mainly in British Columbia until Pacific Coastal Airlines retired it in 2012. Photographed here with Canadian forest company MacMillan Bloedel, who operated two of the amphibians.

Originally delivered to the U.S. Navy as a JRF-5, serial 37810.

Taken near the Ferry Building seaplane terminal in San Francisco, with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background. Bay Valley Air Service was an airline to Sacramento that didn't last very long. Their G-21As are ex Royal Navy JRF-6Bs, with N95431 being ex FP514). This Goose lived on to have a long and varied career. It ended up in Australia in the 1990s and was last noted stored in a hangar at Wangaratta, VIC, in Sep 2016.

Built in 1940 and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force as 926. Converted to turbine in 1968 by Marshals of Cambridge while registerd as G-ASXG. Purchased by Air West in 1971 and registered CF-AWH. Pictured here after conversion back to piston power, but keeping the airframe modifications such as the one piece windshield and extended nose. Finally written off during a water take off May 12, 1988.

Taken near the Ferry Building seaplane terminal in San Francisco, with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background. Bay Valley Air Service was an airline to Sacramento that didn't last very long. Their G-21As are ex Royal Navy JRF-6Bs (N95431 is ex FP514).

Still with the old Guyana Airways Corp titles.

Still with the old Guyana Airways Corp titles.

Built in 1938. Formerly NC20648 of Texaco. Bought by the RCAF in 1942. Served with No 122 Sqn, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, and from 1943 with No 166 Sqn, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC. Sold as surplus in January 1945. Crashed in Ecuador in 1949 as HC-SBV. Photo location not given but some houses can be recognized from photo 361024. Photo by: Jack Lindsay / City of Vancouver Archives

Built as a JRF-5 BuNo 37828 and beautifully restored. Available for flight training at the Goose Hangar on Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska

BuNo 87720 withdrawn from naval use in 1956. Delivered to Western Alaska Airlines, Dillingham in 1962 as N2021A. Kodiak Western Airlines sold N2021A to Hal's Air Service in 1979. The Goose crashed at Ouzinkie, Alaska on 21 July 1984. Four people lost their lives, including the pilot and owner, Hal Dierich. Photo by: Robert Fortuine / University of Alaska Anchorage

The location may be Annette Island Airport. Last flight of this Goose with the US Fish & Wildlife Service October 1965. Restoration completed 1995 and current as a warbird as of 2020. Photo from: University of Alaska Anchorage

Beautiful photo with the mirrored Goose living up to the airline logo. This JRF-6B went to the USAAF as an OA-9, 42-106981. N88821 delivered as the first Goose for Ellis Airlines in Ketchikan in November 1945. Became CF-EFN in 1974, then C-FEFN. Acquired by the Tongass Historical Society in 1992, and registered to them as N88821 in March 1993. It soon entered a lengthy and difficult restoration to static display condition in Ketchikan, which was still on-going by early 2022. Photo by: John L. Turner / University of Alaska Anchorage

Wilderness Seaplanes operates out of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island and is part of Pacific Coastal Airlines.