Delivered to the Tanzanian Air Force in May 1966, this Otter actually went to Camp Borden, ON where the RCAF used it to train Tanzanian ground personnel. Crated for shipment to Tanzania by December 1969, the aircraft was instead returned to DHC for disposal. Sold to Athabaska Airways in 1971, the Otter is pictured shortly after being registered to Contact Charters on April 3, 1992. To Deh Cho Air in 1994, the aircraft crashed September 26, 1997 landing on a river. The rebuild in 1999 included a Valsan Turbine conversion, it is operated by K2 Aviation in Alaska at the time of uploading.

Fort McMurray based Contact Airways was established in 1960, and changed their name to Contact Air in 1991. They operated this King Air 1991 - 1994. It was sold in the USA as N75368 and seems to have ended its aircraft days in the White Industries boneyard at Harry S Truman Regional Airport, Bates City, MO.

The captain told me they missed due to bad weather at Edmonton (CYEG) on a flight from Toronto. With "c**p" weather at their alternate (Calgary) too and not enough fuel to risk a second miss, the decision was taken to divert to CYMM. And here they sit on the GA ramp waiting for a top-up from the fuel truck.