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 Over the years, we've met a wide range of pilots in a wide range of aircraft travelling through Iqaluit on their way to and from Europe and Canada's Eastern Arctic. Ferry pilots, vacationing private pilots, adventurers going around the world, military pilots and many more. Here are some of the interesting people we've encountered, and some of their stories.
Most stop through Iqaluit on their way between Canada and Greenland, as this is the largest airport on the Canadian side of the Davis Strait crossing. For most people in smaller single engine aircraft, the route between Iqaluit and Sondre Stromfiord or Nuuk, Greenland offer the shortest time over water on a north Atlantic Crossing. Others visit Iqaluit on the way to Pangnirtung, Qikiqtarjuaq, Cape Dorset, Kimmirut or other spots as far north as Pond Inlet, Resolute, Eureka and the North Magnetic Pole. More stories and links are added each summer season... |
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Last Updated on Friday, 18 June 2010 20:50 |
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 This 1928 Sikorsky S-38B (N28V) has certainly been one of the more unusual visitors we've seen at CYFB. The restored beauty stopped by on Monday August 23, 2010 on the way from Minnesota to Berlin. Tom Schrade of Unlimited Adventure is the owner and pilot of the S-38. It was wet when they arrived on the Monday evening, but the weather was bright and sunny for their departure to Greenland on August 24th.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2010 15:37 |
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 Ward Welvaert is a professional ferry pilot who has flown a number of single engine aircraft between North America and Europe, via CYFB-Iqaluit, CYVM- Qikiqtarjuaq, and Kuujjuaq. His website provides information and photos about some of his services, and his blog site provides some recent trip reports. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 21:54 |
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 Hans-Jürgen Schwerhoff, accompanied by Wilma Schwerhoff, is flying a Cessna P210N Centurion around the world this summer. They started at home in Germany, heading south east, on April 8, 2010 and plan to be back home in Germany on August 20th.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 00:16 |
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 Paul Bossens, and Pete Koekelkoren made a successful trip in a Robinson R-44 Clipper II (OO-HEY) from Brussels, Belgium to Oshkosh for the airshow and then on to Los Angeles. The trip covered more than 9,000 nm, flown over a month.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:28 |
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 We've never met Reto Godly. But his trip report of an Arctic flight from Germany, to Norway to Canada and Alaska via the North Pole is quite something. His website provides a day by day log of this flight in 2005, plus others he's made to Alaska, Africa, South America, and a circumnavigation of the world. The latter trip included a rather long stop in Iqaluit due to persistent bad weather. Which happens around here sometimes.
His website features detailed daily trip logs, and photos. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 21:55 |
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 In 1999, Mike Blyth and Olivier Aubert made quite an amazing trip in trike-type microlights from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Cape Town, South Africa. They did it the long way. Up through South and North America, and back down Europe and Africa. They covered more than 25,000 miles over 8 months. We had the pleasure of seeing them when they stopped in Iqaluit on the way.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 00:16 |
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