Photographer Alain Rioux

Any help on the location is appreciated.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1973 as CF-ASS. Leased to Evergreen as N304EH 1980, returned 1982 as C-FASS. Air Inuit C-FAIY 2004. Small fuselage titling reads "First Air a Division of Bradley Air".

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-92890 in 1944. Sold as NC60777 in 1947, N60777 after 1948. To N2614 in 1962, CF-MOC in 1967 and C-FMOC in 1979. Withdrawn from use at Carp by 1988. Scrapped at Carp in 2002.

Bradley Flying School was formed in 1946. It became Bradley Air Services in 1950. In 1973 it began to also trade as as First Air but remained registered as Bradley Air Services. This DC-3 later operated with Central Mountain Air Services and was written off 4 Apr 91 when, whilst en route, it crashed onto a frozen lake (Thudate Lake, BC). The flight was flown VFR in daylight with sudden heavy snow squalls.

Little did I know that 24 years later (in 2007) I would see and photograph it again at Hay River NWT working hard with Buffalo Airways. It was still operating in Oct 2019.

Current as C-FAIY(2nd use on type) with Air Inuit in 2021. Note how a blisteringly cold wind storm has sculpted the snow and ice.

Delivered to Linea Aeropostal Venezolana as YV-C-AME in 1965. Reregistered as YV-04C in 1975. To Regionair as C-GDUI in 1982, merged into Quebecair in 1984 then to Bradley Air Services in 1987. Withdrawn from use at Carp by 1990 and scrapped in 1991.

Here's a Twin Otter that has been flying in Canada's north nearly it's entire career. It was elivered to Nordair for arctic routes in October 1974. Next with Survair for four years before coming to Bradley Air Services, the aircraft is pictured here on wheel-skis as Spring is still to come in the North. Except for a lease to the US Forest Service in the summer of 1983, Bradley (later as First Air) flew the airplane until 2001. It was sold to Air Inuit and continues to fly north out of Montreal at the time of uploading.

Delivered to Philippine Airlines as PI-C1018 and later RP-C1018, JVN was bought by Bradley in 1980. Bradley was re-branded as First Air and used the aircraft until withdrawn in 2008 and used for parts.