Departing off of Boundary Bay's Runway 13 this afternoon as "Everts (VTS) 905" for home base in Fairbanks. This 66 year old beauty arrived back in mid September for some avionics work.

returning home to base at 8pm

Still in service as it approaches its 64th birthday.

Undergoing a mandatory wing inspection at the Everts North Hangar.

former Conair Canada Tanker 52, ex C-FCZZ, later joined the operational fleet of Everts. Cool to see this airplane actually fly on my subsequent trip up north.

This aircraft, seen here at the start of its takeoff run on runway 14, joined the Everts fleet in August 2000. It was originally delivered to Canadian Pacific way back in July 1958 as CF-CZZ. It later served as a sprayer with Conifair (C-GBZC) in the mid 1980s and even saw some service as an airtanker with France's Sécurité Civile from 1986 to 1988 as F-ZBAP (Tanker 65). Its last former owner was Conair (C-FCZZ, Tanker 52). By 2017 it still served faithfully with Everts.