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The Trip Home

Web Editor Note: After some discussion about the Forest Fire situation in Alaska, it was decided that the VFR aircraft would not venture past Dawson City.  The Group had taken the train from Dawson City […]

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Tom makes it Home!

Tom officially finished the trip by landing at home late on Tuesday! Now my turn, the weather looks good for this weekend so I hope to get back to Bar River to pick up my […]

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Canadian Harrier For Sale

A Red Deer businessman has put one of his prized possessions, a Sea Harrier, up for sale on eBay and he’s hoping the almost-flyable aircraft stays in Canada. Ian Cotton, of Red Deer, is selling this nearly […]

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Midair kills four in B.C.

Four people and a dog are dead following the midair collision of a glider and a Cessna 150 over a campground in Pemberton, B.C. Saturday. Debris rained over the Nairn Falls Campground, which was packed […]

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Bar River Hospitality!

We landed unannounced at Bar River and met the folks at Springer Aerospace. They specialize in “Heavy Maintenance” for Twin Otters, Beavers, and other Turbine aircraft. I finally had to give in to the weather! […]

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Bar River Airport.

The ceiling just kept coming down as we started towards Killarney, so when we saw Bar River Airport we decided that enough was enough. Here I’m on final for 110. Show Full Size Photo

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Lake Freighter and Tom

We’re leaving Sault Ste Marie and the visibility looks OK to the north east. Tom is in the top of frame and of course the lake freighter steaming out to Lake Huron. We are over […]

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Locks at Sault Ste. Marie

We are now about 5 hours from home and with, what we thought was improving weather to the east we punched in Killarney. We anticipated that the ceiling along the shore would be about 1500′ […]

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Sault Ste. Marie, ON

The ceiling was 1000′ with 5 miles visibility, we were in contact with Toronto Centre and they pasted us off to the Tower. The controller gave me “cleared to land” runway 12, just after I […]