Registered in May 1991

Built in 1956. Current on the register in 2023.

Jerrie Mock flew this aircraft when she took off from Columbus, Ohio, on March 19, 1964 and landed back at the same location on the 17th April 1964, becoming the 1st woman to pilot an aircraft around the world.

Cessna 180H, CF-UIG, was imported to Canada in 1966 and has operated on floats most of its career. It was part of Terrace & Prince Rupert-based Trans-Provincial Airlines' (TPA) fleet of 24 aircraft in 1970 and probably joined the fleet in the 1960s. The aircraft remained with TPA though its purchase and sale by Jim Pattison Industries until the airline went bankrupt in 1993. After five subsequent owners in British Columbia including Fort Langley Air, it's been based in La Ronge, Saskachewan since November 2020.

Registered September 1989.

Airwest Airlines of Vancouver imported this Cessna 180J, C-FAWH, in 1984 for charter services. It's seen here at the Airwest's old wooden dock in the Coal Harbour area of Vancouver Harbour. In the 1980s, C-FAWH was privately-owned and based in Prince George, BC until exported to the USA in November 1986.

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.

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.

Starter unserviceable so aircraft was being handspiked to start. On this occasion throttle was not properly set and neither was the friction knob. Aircraft accelerated across the lake finishing up in the bush totally wrecked.

This early Cessna 180A arrived new in Canada in 1958. The aircraft is pictured in front of the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre hangar doors.

Sold in New Zealand as ZK-DBA in February 2017.

Thanks to the strong crosswind during the first Sunday of the Air Venture 2022, the pilot of this Ce180 must have had some nasty seconds.... Fortunately he managed to get back in control of his plane

ex (N9910N), LN-BGJ