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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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 Werner Koch of Vancouver made a trip from CYPK Pitt Meadows, BC to CYGZ Grise Fiord, Nunavut in July 2011. He went via CYZF Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, CYCB Cambridge Bay, CYYHTaloyoak, and CYAB Arctic Bay Nunavut, to Grise Fiord. The return trip was via Arctic Bay, Cambridge Bay, CYCO Kugluktuk, CYVQ Norman Wells, NWT and Muncho Lake, BC.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2011 00:24 |
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This H awker Beechcraft AT-6 (model 3000), serial number AT-1, dropped by Iqaluit in July, 2011 on its way to the 40th anniversary Royal International Air Tattoo at the Royal Airforce Base Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. The AT-6 is Hawker Beechcraft's new attack/surveillance aircraft, based on its T-6 Texan trainer. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:58 |
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 Most of the visits we write about happened since our involvement with general aviation in Iqaluit began in 1993. But this is one story that had to make the page even though it happened more than 40 years ago. Mira Slovak made the Atlantic crossing via Greenland and Iqaluit (or Frobisher Bay as it was then known) back in 1968. He did it in his motorglider, a Fournier RF-4D, built by Sportavia in Germany. Think big wing, one wheel, and a 36 hp Volkswagen engine.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2011 00:26 |
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 Jens Abildgaard was through Iqaluit a couple of years ago on one of his longer, international trips. He's done a 'round the world flight, a trip from Europe to the US and one to South Africa, all in a single engine plane. His website has trip reports and other information.
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 You don't see one of these every day in Iqaluit. It is an EADS 'Warszawa - Okecie' S.A. PZL-104MA Wilga 2000. Quite a powerful, multipurpose aircraft. Built in Poland by PZL, they're used for everything from towing gliders, to training, to border patrol. The Canadian Air Cadet program had purchased one PZL-104MA, and was planning to buy more, but EADS is apparently no longer making it.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 05:27 |
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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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