Category: Aviation

There was an interesting bird at the Whitehorse airport yesterday that may well be the start of serious money funnelling through this town. C-GIPI is a 1980 Dehavilland DHC-7-102 (commonly known as a Dash 7) conducting geotechnical surveys. My guess, due to the size of the aircraft, is that...

All of you who travel by air know that the level of service on all airlines is getting lower and lower as they try to cut costs to stay competitive. That’s particularly true this year with skyrocketing (pun intended) fuel costs. One of the things that’s missing on most...

Airlines, along with banks and government, are favorite targets for people in general to vent about. In the Yukon and Alaska, however, we have airlines that people brag about, despite the fact that the airlines have, at times, some of the toughest weather conditions on earth to deal with....

I was down at Lake Schwatka getting my plane fix this afternoon, and met a new arrival in town. Ben Jones is flying for Whitehorse Air Services (with that beautiful Cessna 206 seen below), but he and his girlfriend have no home. If any of you know of accommodations...

I’m just about to head out to get Cathy’s Tracker running, but that isn’t going to be the coldest job in Whitehorse. The guy below, working on the engine of a C-130 Hercules at 34 below with a screaming wind, has that job! RCAF Lockheed CC-130H Hercules #130332 (“Tusker...

Restaurants come and go regularly in Whitehorse, sometimes due to changes in the quality of the service and/or food (which means that Ricky’s will be the next to go), sometimes seemingly due merely to the fickle nature of public opinion. For the past 3 years or so, the most...

Flying excites me – if I can’t be doing it, I want to be watching it. Whether it’s natural flight or technological flight is immaterial – the concept is the same to me, and the Yukon is a great place to watch both types. The photo above is a...

I spent 3/4 of an hour posting yesterday, then lost the whole thing to a power failure just as I hit “Publish”. Ah, the joys of technology – I guess I should go back to writing the posts in Notepad instead of online. On Friday, the group left for...

Air shows are common today in communities of all sizes all over the world. Not many communities have air shows quite like Whitehorse, though. The show this past weekend (February 17 & 18) was the 36th annual winter air show, part of the Sourdough Rendezvous, a boistrous celebration of...