The airline with it´s roots deep in the soil of Northern Ontario in Canada are celebrating 50 years of service in 2013!
Have you missed that? Thought so!
It´s never to late to celebrate, which I am doing now, even though I´ve never flown with them.
Anyway this airline is a proud company, founded in 1963, being named after Bearskin Lake a remote First Nations community located some 435 km northeast of Sioux Lookout (take a look at the map).
Note that a so called bush pilot named Otto John Hegland, which to me sounds very Norwegian, strated operations in July of 1963.
Bush flying is pilots flying their aircrafts in remote, inhospitable regions. It also involves operations in rough terrain with no prepared landing- and take-off strips.
Bearskin Airlines is based in Sioux Lookout and as you see they operate services into northern Ontario and Manitoba.
Another maintenance and pilot base is located in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
The company today operates one type of aircraft, the Fairchild Metroliner, currently 16 Metroliners are in service. Equipped with twin turbine engines, the aircraft says to offer "exceptional speed and range".
It carries 19 passengers.
Remember, always bear in mind to fly Bearskin Airlines.
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