VGP getting ready for another trip up to Dawson City (YDA) as my ride in from Vancouver (C-GANJ) gets serviced by the Air North ground staff.

Delivered new to Ontario Express as a standard series 300 12th July 1989 and went to Inter-Canadian July 1992, then Canadian Regional March 1993 and back to Inter-Canadian Oct 1998. Withdrawn from use Nov 1999 and after a long period of storage it was converted to a series 300(QC) and delivered to First Air Oct 2001. Registered to Air North as C-FVGP 16th Sep 2016

Operating for bmi regional, flying their Glasgow-Manchester scheduled service.

Operated with this registration all of its service life, starting with Ontario Express/Canadian Partner in February 1989 and later Inter-Canadian and Canadian Regional Airlines. With First Air since October 2001.

The snow rabbit featuring in First Air's colour scheme before the merger with Canadian North.

This ATR 42 was acquired from American Eagle and after conversion to -300QC at Coventry it is now based at Glasgow in this hybrid scheme. They have painted over the American Eagle red stripe with black and applied the Highland tail design and internet titles on the fuselage. This aircraft was bought to do daily mail flights to the Scottish Islands.

At the time this aircraft was being used by the Liberal Democrats for the General Election campaign and it was departing Glasgow in the evening after their party leader spent the day here. (10D ISO 100 1/350th at F11 300mm)

The aircraft is given a good clean in preparation for its next flight