Crashabaska Airways

[deuce bigalow]

Just wondering if any of the old f*rts here worked for Athabasca Airways back in the 70's when Uranium was king. 4 years in L.A. Ronge for me. 75 to 79.

 

Booya!!!!!

[DGP]

I never did work for floyd but knew some guys that did...frank r for one...did a lot of time around hidden bay in 80/81...went with the great dane to do a job at U city...spent a night or two in buffalo narrows and lived to tell about it...now that was scary...wet thru La Ronge a few times flying for midwest...regular route going south from ft mac...was on a fire in ft smith in 79...viking was there and alpine,and the green/white gazelle from buff airways...a couple of alouettes...one crashed...there was a 500 as well,painted up with the red/white/blue stars and stripes...have a picture of it...don't know who was on it :shock:

[twinstar_ca]

and the green/white gazelle from buff airways...

 

that would have been GOCA... i took a ride in her in ft simpson in '77... :punk:

[chemical]

guy at work brought in some interesting pictures of his time at athabasca, probably around that era. his name is fritz i will let him know about this thread..

[twinstar_ca]

of course, they are now known as transwest air... got rid of the a and w color scheme on the 206's and went to a blue and white...

 

i knew bob glass before he passed... jim munro is another name that comes to mind as having been there...

[Icewind]

http://www.saskaviationcouncil.ca/newslett...ter-12-2007.pdf

 

Page 12 - and yeah they mixed up the names and the pictures!

[helicopper]

mr glass put me to work pumping fuel after i spent 4 days in his reception area (may '81)... "If you aren't gonna leave, you might as well pump gas for us!"...

 

will never forget the photo in the CP's office... a 5 yr old (?) native lad looking up at mr diefenbaker in the middle of a tall grass field with the 206 and CP way back in the background... a very powerful photograph... would love a copy of THAT shot!

[chopperman]

Athabaska gave me my start in the industry. I started in 89 and broke a 1000 hours on the S55T (BVP) on a summer fire contract in Pelican Narrows. I worked 2 years for Flloyd, Bob and Jim. Had a lot of good times there and still keep in contact with a few of the guys I worked with. One of the engineers that worked there when I started whom I have a huge amount of respect for works for us now.

They gave a fair number of pilots their start in the industry.

 

Todd

[twinstar_ca]

the S55T (BVP)

 

lol!! the machine i remember most seeing should have belonged to candid camera... FUNT.. i think alan funt would have liked it!!!

[&]

Reflecting back to the Buffalo Airways machines, OCA and the Hughes 500D painted in the pride of America paint scheme.

The people who crewed it would of been Al Engst, Cam Allen, Mike Duff, Doug B and Dave Reid.

That was a few fires ago.

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