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Western Straits Air
Charter Aircraft Company
Company Logo
Owned by Gynn Bay Logging Ltd. of Campbell River.
License cancelled in 1996, due to insurance problems.
Owned by Ames Management Group, in 1995
a local resource group in Campbell River
that also employed the crew.
Planes they operated
Beavers
C-FHGX, de Havilland DHC-2 MK I
C-FRJG, de Havilland DHC-2, MK 1
C-GPVB de Havilland DHC-2, MK I
Otters
C-FSVP, de Havilland DHC-3
C-FXUY, de Havilland DHC-3
C-FMPY, De Havilland, DHC-3
C-FEBX, de Havilland DHC-3, see below.
Cessna
C-GBQJ, Cessna A185F
C-GJXQ Cessan 180J
C-FBIY, Cessna 180H
C-FEWP, Cessna U206D,
last plane registration cancelled Aug 9, 2005
C-FEBX
c/n 38
de Havilland Canada, DHC-3 Turbo Otter
1 Pratt & Whitney PT6A-135A
Photo from Brooke Hodson
C-FEBX crashed Sept 27, 1995
Killed the Pilot, and 7 passengers, out of 9.
Plane written off.
Crashed 13 km NW, on approach to Campbell River Airport,
Flying from Triumph Bay.
Plane originated as a charter in Kitimat.
Some of the passengers were loggers
going home for the weekend.
This plane first flew Apr 5, 1954.
2 survivors-
Charlotte Pfister, Camp Cook
and Len Brown.
Fatalities
Veteran Pilot- Dan White, age 37
Miles Roseborough was Company spokesman
at the time of the accident.
This plane was once owned by the RCMP, as CF-MPK
then became CF-EBX, before C-FEBX.
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