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 Back in 2008, The Great Arctic Air Adventure completed a circumnavigation of Canada, which included a trip to the North Magnetic Pole, by float plane. That’s not something you see up here everyday… visit their site for photos, videos and more. The trip took off from the west Coast, travelled through the Yukon and Northwest Territories, and visited a number of Nunavut communties, including Cambridge Bay, Coral Harbour and Resolute Bay before returning south via the Nunavik region of Northern Quebec. The float equipped deHavilland Beaver would have reminded some of the older arctic residents of the kind of planes that found their way north in the 1940s to 1960s.
Now, their adventure has been documented in a TV special airing on PBS. Details, including the video trailer, are available here.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:05 |
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 Matt Hyde dropped by Iqaluit in August of 2007 on a trip from Seattle, Washington to Baffin Island in his 1973 Cessna 182P. Matt met us at the fuel station at CYFB. He dropped by at the same time as Indian Air Force pilots Rahul Monga and Anil Kumar. At the time, Monga and Kumar were two thirds of the way through their record-breaking trip around the world.
Matt took some spectacular photos on his Baffin Island trip, including flying through the Aksayuk Pass near Pangnirtung, some great photos of Auyuituq National Park, and more. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:10 |
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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, including this one on ferrying a Piper Seneca through Iqaluit to Europe.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:01 |
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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 Thursday, 31 March 2011 21:15 |
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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 Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:15 |
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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.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 21:55 |
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 Hans-Jürgen Schwerhoff, accompanied by Wilma Schwerhoff, flew a Cessna P210N Centurion around the world in the summer of 2010. They started at home in Germany, heading south east, on April 8, 2010 and were back home in Friedrichshafen, Germany on August 20th.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 05 December 2010 13:16 |
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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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 Kate and Karoliina flew their Diamond DA40 from the US to Finland during the summer of 2009. This blog features a trip report and photos. Their story points out the need to make sure there is avgas available where you're going, and why it is important to check ahead for accommodation on trips through arctic Canada. There's also information about their visit to Oshkosh. We saw their Diamond when they were in Iqaluit, but didn't get a chance to meet them.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 01 May 2011 14:30 |
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