Buffalo Airways
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Buffalo Airways is a family-run airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, established in 1970. Buffalo Airways was launched by Bob Gauchie and later sold to one of his pilots, Joe M
Yellowknife base of Buffalo Air
Joe McBryan (aka "Buffalo Joe")
The first DC-3 bought by "Buffalo Joe"
Buffalo School of Aviation's Fleet Canuck
Curtiss C-46 Commando
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The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor III" but the Commando
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…fuselage veered off the right side of the runway. The four crew were unhurt, but the aircraft was written off. On 25 May 2004, flight BFL326, a loaded Curtiss C-46D (C-FAVO), was seriously damaged at Yellowknife Airport while taxiing for departure. The company reported the tail wheel went off the threshold of runway…
A wartime photograph of a U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) C-46 Commando
World War II US Navy Recognition Chart for Curtiss C-46
A U.S. C-46 aircraft conducting an aerial evacuation of wounded American troops from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, shortly after U.S. forces retook the city after intense fighting with the Japanese.
C-46A being used for research in 1946, by NACA (Predecessor to NASA)