Province of Quebec gives a fire bombing demo over a hazy Lake Ontario. Delivered to the Province in July 1971 and traded back to Bombardier in 1996. Used by Bombardier for demonstrations in several countries before being acquired by Conair in June 1996, and then by Buffalo Airways in June 2004 for fire fighting in the Northwest Territories. It left Canada in March 2009 for Turkey, to be operated by the Turkish Aeronautical Association (Türk Hava Kurumu) as TC-TKJ.

Performing a crew training mission over Lac de Pareloup (Aveyron), France

Operating a crew training flight, in formation, over Lac de Pareloup (Aveyron), France

Operated by 355 Mira and seen over Laganis, Zakynthos, while fire-fighting in the mountains nearby.

Returning to Canada after spending a couple of years in Turkey.

Returning to Canada after spending a couple of years in Turkey.

This 1995 built CL-415 crashed with 3392 flight hours on 1 Aug'05. After take-off from Ajaccio AP and a first scooping, Pelican 36 intervened with 2 other CL-415s a fire near Piétramaggiore (Corsica, France). After 8 passes, 36 began its last scooping in the Gulf of Revellata, it gained height and continued the circuit to arrive on the drop axis. 36 was directed to drop its load on the exact same location as one of the other CL-415s but things went wrong, it went off track, then the tail section of 36 separated from the fuselage due to possible high stress, it impacted the side of a mountain.

Before turbo conversion. Photo by : Enrique Cortes