One of our most memorable visitors was George Vose.  George didn't fly his Cessna 172 up here from his home at Taurus Mesa near Alpine, Texas. Despite tens of thousands of flying hours, he said he wasn't all that keen on the long flight over Hudson Strait.  And he said he just wanted to have a look around, to see the landscape he remembered hearing about as a school boy in the United States.

So we went out for a couple of rides in C-GOLJ. Over the few days he was here, a little over ten years ago, we explored the area about 100 miles around Iqaluit.  He pronounced it worth the trip.  George is pictured here with Iqaluit resident Scottie Monteith who joined George and Patrick Nagle for a local flight.

And George has done some flying. You can read about one of George's flying adventures in the book On the Wing, by Allan Tennant. It is quite an amazing story of George and Allan tracking a peregrine falcon from Mexico and the Caribbean all the way to Alaska in a Cessna 172.

In 2005, George was honoured with a well-deserved FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award after 66 years of flying! He was also honoured with a regional FAA Safety Team award in 2008

In July 2011, George was still going strong, maintaining his pilot and CFI ratings as he nears 90 years of age.  This article in the Hartlee Times has more.