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The Ontario bush-plane trail
Floatplanes at work in 2013
​By Jan Koppen


My good friend Michael Prophet had visited Ontario's bush-plane operators in 2009 and described this bush-plane trail in detail on his superb internet site. In June this year, together with fellow aviation enthusiast Mr. Servaas Verbrugge, who is also a dedicated supporter of the round-engines and floatplane operations, I decided to follow Michael's footsteps to see these beautiful floatplanes at work.

We planned to do more or less the same tour as Michael did, and so our itinerary included such places as Kenora, Vermillion Bay, Nestor Falls, Minaki, Red Lake, Ear Falls, Sioux Lookout, and Ignace.
 
We visited the following places and operators:

"Press on the links in the menu."
 
Kenora
Kenora Air Service
River Air
Kuby’s Maintenance
​
De Havilland DHC-2
Minaki
River Air
Minaki maintenance
Nestor Falls
Northwest Flying Inc.
Nestor Falls Fly-In Outposts
Fort Frances
Rusty Myers
Northern Wilderness Outfitters
Dryden
Vermilion Bay
Wilderness Air Escapes
Ear Falls
Kay Air
Excellent Adventures
Showalter’s
Red Lake
Chimo Air
Green Airways
Viking Outposts
Seaplane maintenance
Lac Seul Airways
Sportman’s lodge
Cochenour seaplane base
Red Lake airport
Sioux Lookout
Slate Airways
Knobb’s & Bamaji Air
Northern Airborne Maintenance
Red Hawk maintenance
Allen Airways
Ignace
Ignace Airways
Northland Air Service
Selkirk
Riverside Aircraft Maintenance
Gimli
Western Aviation Museum
Heritage Park
Winnipeg Airport

I would like to thank Mr. Ruud Leeuw, Micheal S. Prophet and many other bush plane enthusiasts for their editorial consultancy in preparing this lengthy trip report.


 
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      • Jetair, Curacao
      • Maho Beach, St. Maarten
      • Another day at SXM
      • Twin-Otter to Saba
      • A couple of hours at St. Eustatia
    • YAK-42D to Yaroslav
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    • Guatemala, January 1987
    • Zarkani 707's
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    • 134 to Kaluga
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    • SLM DC-8 crash
    • Working the Hadj
    • KLM DC-8 memories
    • Syrian OldJets
    • VFW-614
    • Biman DC-10-30 to Chittaqn
    • Pelgrimage to Mashad
    • Austral MD80 saved
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    • Part-out & Scrap of a Queen
    • Moscow bound Tu-154
    • Saving a Trident
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    • Opa Locka, April 1980
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    • Odesa - Ukraine
    • Dnipropetrovsk - Ukraine
    • Legendary DC-3 book
    • La Paz - El Alto, February 1985
    • Belfast to Dublin
    • Herc to Helsinki
    • AerCaribe Antonovs
    • Aeroejecutivos Flight 501
    • Rutaca of Cd. Bolivar, Venezuela
    • Venezuela - Once a DC-3 Hot-Spot
    • 580 to Valdez
    • Reeve Aleutian, Alaska
    • Everst Air Cargo - Alaska
    • Brooks Fuel, Fairbanks, Alaska
    • Northern Air Cargo - Alaska
    • KLM goes Guppy for a night
    • Good Old Argosy
    • Belize, 1987
    • Oaxaca, Mexico
    • Zorg & Hoop, Paramaribo
    • Chaiky airfield, Ukraine
    • Villavicencio, Colombia >
      • Villavicencio Vanguardia
      • Aliansa
      • Sadelca
      • Selva
      • Bomberos
      • Allas
      • Air Colombia
      • Aerolineas Llaneros
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    • East-Midland mid-80's
    • MERCHANTMAN TO AMSTERDAM
    • Northern Air Cargo DC-6 Flight
    • An affaire with beautiful Delaney
    • DC-3 to Gabarone, Botswana
    • Inbound Jan Smuts
    • Antonov An-12 Flight
    • Cuban An-2's
    • Surinam Ag-Cats
    • Chernoye An-2 Works
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      • DeHavailland DHC-2
      • Minaki
      • Nestor Falls
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