Built in 2019 for Norwegian Air Sweden then put into storage. Registered to Swoop on 4 November 2022.

Here departing to Kelowna (CYLW) is this 1977 built Stationair 6 operated by AC Airways of Pitt Meadows (CYPK).

Grumman G-21A Goose N88821 was imported to Canada in 1973 and sold by Viking Air at Victoria Airport (YYJ) after overhaul to Alert Bay Air Services in January 1974. The company served the mid-British Columbia coast from a waterfront base in Alert Bay on Cormorant Island located a few miles off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island. Acquired by Jim Pattison Industries in the early 1980s during the creation of AirBC and primarily operated by sister company Trans-Provincial Airlines until it ground looped on landing at Sandspit Airport in Feb. 1991. 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.

In September 1968, this former Qantas DHC-3 Otter, CF-XRI, was ferried across the Pacific from Australia to join the fleet of Airwest Airlines in Vancouver, BC. For most of the 1970s, this was the only DHC-3 Otter operating daily scheduled flights into Vancouver Harbour with its distinct engine sound distinguishing it from the more common Cessna 180/185s, DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-6 Twin Otters. AirWest was one of several coastal airlines acquired by the Jim Pattison Group to form AirBC in the early 1980s. C-FXRI now flies as a Vazar DHC-3 Turbo Otter powered by a PT6A turboprop with Osprey Wings.

Registered as N4211V in 2000, F-GOSB in 2001 and N4211V then C-GRUU in 2012.

Visiting from Boundary Bay (CZBB) and here climbing out from a touch-and-go. Registered address is Kalispell/MT, but it has been operating out of CZBB for a few months.

The Royal Canadian Air Force took this Starfighter on strength in May 1962 with serial 12733. The fighter is pictured at Abbotsford with 417 Sqn's Deadeye Zip team. The aircraft went to Turkey in 1986 for spares.

Originally a Convair 340 delivered to United Airlines in 1952, Sierra Pacific Airlines bought this Convair 580 in November 1982. Pictured on a short lease to Trans Provincial Airlines (May to September 1990), the aircraft was eventually retired in 1995 and the registration cancelled.

This Beaver was delivered to Victoria Flying Service June 29, 1966 appropriately registered CF-VFS (Later C-FVFS). Circa 1979 the aircraft moved to West Coast Air Services / Air BC. The floatplane is pictured during it's short time with Waglisla Air.

Built 1980 this H500D was previously registered N1090G and N88SE. It has been with Kestrel Helicopters since May 2015 registered C-GKHM.

Arriving from Napa County (KAPC) is this 2009 built Challenger 300. Operator name written just forward of door.

Departing to Rochester/MN (KRST) is this 2009 built CitationJet CJ3 operated by Sunwest Aviation. Call-sign "Chinook (CNK) 3".

Cessna 172M, C-GAMB, was imported to Canada in 1974 and operated by Yukon Airways Ltd. from about May 1977 to March 1992. In 1984, Yukon Airways was primarily a helicopter charter company flying a Hughes 500D, C-GKNP, from its Dease Lake Airport base, with this Cessna 172 used for maintenance support. Since 1992, C-GAMB been registered to seven different entities and was registered to Great River Aviation Ltd. in Whitehorse, Yukon in November 2022 when this image was posted to AirHistory.

This Piper PA-23, C-GHJT of Pacific Pilot Upgrading "landed wheels up on a sand area when the engine lost power" at the southeast end of Vancouver International Airport on August 31, 1975. The aircraft was imported to Canada in 1974 and cancelled from the Canadian registered Sep. 1987 after the company went out of business. The registration C-GHJT has been subsequently allocated to five different Sikorsky S-76s and one Bell 206L-1 LongRanger operated by Helijet International. Today, Helijet's main base at YVR is just north of where this PA-23 crash occurred in August 1975.

Tyee Airways Ltd. acquired this Cessna 180 seaplane CF-UFD, new from Vancouver Cessna dealer Staron Flights Ltd. on March 17, 1966 and operated it through November 1977 when it was sold to K.D. Brodacki in Edmonton, Alberta. It was photographed at the Tyee dock at the Bayshore Inn at the foot of Cardero Street in Vancouver. Tyee Airways was owned by Al Campbell and based in Porpoise Bay in Sechelt, BC, which is about 50 km northwest of Vancouver on the Sunshine Coast. Tyee utilized the public seaplane dock in Sechelt and had a maintenance base on East Sechelt Road. Exported to USA, April 1982.

Having just landed in Discovery Passage, turning in to the mouth of the Campbell River en route to the docks for a refuelling stop and comfort break, before continuing further north on Northwest Seaplanes' morning flight from Washington State.