Yellowknife Airport

Yellowknife Airport
June 2023

C-GCNZ flying as 5T/244 YEG/YZF. June 4, 2023.

Our Classic 737 in a weak spring morning sun at Yellowknife.

C-GCNZ getting fuel at Yellowknife.

C-GCNZ getting off loaded of cargo and mail.

It was a warm and beautiful June 2023 morning when I photographed this Canadian North 737 on the Yellowknife ramp.

Canadian North C-FHBO at Yellowknife, ready for action.

C-FHBO is a 737-700 which flew for WestJet between 2005 and 2021.

Using the stairs enhanced the experience of getting on an airplane - you see the jet, hear the ambient sounds, smell the Jet A and felt like you were a part of the process instead of filing through a sterile tube from a room into a cabin.

Another Canadian North 737 ready to depart her stand at Yellowknife with another load of passengers.

ATR-42-500 C-FTIR had flown in India for Air Deccan as VT-ADI.

Another very efficient turn-round for this Canadian North ATR-42.

The Yellowknife based ATR’s are hardworking aeroplanes.

Baggage carousel including an icebear in the arrival hall.

Yellowknife Airport control tower.

DHC-8-102 C-GSUR of the Government of Canada-Department of Transport on the ramp at Yellowknife.

Yellowknife, on a quiet morning.

1971 built Royal Canadian Air Force DHC-6-300 ‘13802’, seen here taxiing at Yellowknife prior to departing on yet another mission.

Plinth-mounted Bristol 170 Mk.31WE Freighter CF-TFX in Wardair livery is the star attraction at Yellowkife airport in the Northwest Territory.

This particular aircraft first flew from the Filton production site in 1953 and was delivered to Trans Canada Airlines. Wardair acquired the Bristol in 1955.

The Air Tindi passenger terminal and head office at the end of Berry Street, Yellowknife.

An Air Tindi Dash-7 taxies at a rather wet and miserable Yellowknife Airport.

Props are spinning of this North Wright Air Beech 1900D.

Downtime for C-FWXL, another member of the North Wright Air fleet.

North Wright Air has several Beech 1900 in her fleet.

The weather at Yellowknife was gray, wet and dark.

Close cropped front starboard side view of Air Tindi Beech King Air C-FCGU, at Yellowknife on June 5, 2023, in dull cloudy conditions.

1995-built Summit Air ATR 72-200 Freighter C-GJPY at a damp and cold Yellowknife, is seen here loaded for her flight to Cambridge Bay.

The bright blue tail logos both Summit Air ships stand out against the gloom of a June day at Yellowknife Airport in 2023.

Summit ATR-72 freighter loads late in the afternoon.

This RJ-100 flew for BA Cityflyer between March 2007 and August 2012.

Air Tindi Dash-7, C-GFFL, marooned in a corner of the airfield at Yellowknife, NWT, in 2023. According to Matt Goldsworthy she is no longer in service.

Early morning ramp shot I took at Yellowknife on June 4, 2023.

It has been clouded all morning.

Boarding for Wekweeti, NWT.

Air Tindi work horses, the Twin Otters. One will be heading to Fort Simpson and other heading to Whati/Lac La Martre.

Air Tindi Twin Otters at rest at Yellowknife, June 4, 2023.

Collin Crosby informed me that MSN. 525 was registered by Air Tindi as C-GATU in 1994. It was deregistered in Canada for a lease to an Indonesian company in 2003. When the lease was finished, it came back to Air Tindi and was re-registered in Canada as C-FATW in 2008.

This very old workhorse started her flying career with Pakistan Intl. Airways – PIA in November 1970.

This RJ-100 flew for BA Cityflyer between March 2007 and August 2012.

This well-travelled ATR freighter is arriving back at her Yellowknife base.

Next day the weather improved considerably.

A bit of an emergency, over the fence shot of an Air Tindi Dash-7 at Yellowknife, with a lot of 'stuff' blocking a clear view.

Air Tindi’s cargo warehouse and cargo apron.

Amazing photo opportunities on the ramp of Air Tindi.

Between 2002 and 2011, this Dash-7 worked for Air Greenland as OY-GRD.

Getting loaded for a trip over Slave Lake.

Air Tindi Dash-7 C-FPBJ swallows a freight pallet through its 91 by 70 inch cargo door at Yellowknife on a cloudless June day in 2023.

Air Tindi Dash-7 loads late in the afternoon.

This Air Tindi King Air takes a break between operations.

C-GUAT in her ‘RED bird’ livery.

C-GUAT in her very attractive former Air Greenland livery.

Face to face picture.

Full frontal of C-GUAT

Doors agape…

Freight door open, a pristine ‘Uniform Tango’ has an aura of understated efficiency.

C-GUAT chilling at the ramp, ready to take on another assignment.

Air Tindi ground crew family portrait.

Staff with a can-do attitude!

Oldjets.net management team at work on the ramp.

Dash-7’s are powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6-50 turbines with 4 blade propellers.

A ground power unit pumps energy into this stationary Summit Air ATR freighter as it sits on the ramp at Yellowknife, NWT.

Summit ATR-72 freighter at Yellowknife, NWT on June 5, 2023, preparing for the afternoon departure to the Ekati diamond mine.

An Air Tindi Twin Otter between flights at her Yellowknife base.

C-FATW served with Loganair as G-BEJP during the 1980’s. After a couple of years working in Indonesia with Aviastar Mandiri, she was sold to Air Tindi in December 2008.

Beech C-GYKI gets some attention.

Norlinor Boeing 737-200C C-GNRD at Yellowknife, prepping for another cargo run to the Ekati diamond mine.

Seen resting, in the crisp June air, is this Air Tindi Beech King Air, C-FCGU, awaiting its next mission.

An Air Tindi Twin Otter at the Yellowknife ramp.

Although she had transported for 23 years innumerable passengers reliably and safely around the world, this ship started a second life as a cargo transport which last till today.

Photo: Michael S. Prophet.

C-GNRD having another busy day.

Loading outsized cargo for the Ekati diamond mine.

Norlinor Boeing 737-200C, C-GNRD. Despite her age, this plane continues to soldier on day after day.

C-GNRD at a bustling Yellowknife.

C-GNRD flew eight years in Mexico with Estafeta Cargo Aera as XA-TWP.

Photo: Michael S. Prophet.

A Summit Dornier just taxiing past,

Photo: Michael S. Prophet.

During the early-1960’s, American Airlines crew occupied her cockpit. Now more than half a century later, the air crew of Buffalo Airways, commands this Lockheed Electra on its freight runs to diamond mines in the High Artic.

Photo: Michael S. Prophet.