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surface runway, we moved our clients to the former Distant Early Warning station of Hall Beach where the ice-free months attracted tourists to the multitudes of walrus and whales harvested by local Inuit hunters. Another note to my Louisiana friend emphasized: Reserve ahead – well ahead. Every hotel room becomes pre-booked when winter ends.
Our customers signed the paperwork for their last flight and rhapsodized about Buffalo Airways, the efficiency of the King Air 100 and our particular presence. Buffalo Joe could count on repeat business. In my case, I rearranged my paper pads crammed with facts ready to fire to the far-away domains of Louisiana. With tanks topped again, this time from a fuel truck, we climbed aboard for home.
Before long, C-GBFE’s wheels went into their wells, and we turned for Yellowknife across the vast immensities we traversed five days before. By the time we landed, airframe hours totaled 19,907.5 and navigation logs showed 4,210 miles. I returned Mousseau’s nail file/ pencil sharpener and concluded that a confident pilot from the civilized country south of mine would follow my suggestions. If his customers needed a stable and well-balanced airplane close to perfect, the King Air 100 filled the bill. My last remark read: “C’mon up, eh!” as Mousseau scarfed the last doughnut.
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Robert S. Grant has become internationally known for publication of over 2,500 articles in six countries, as well
as four books and a bimonthly column for a Canadian west coast magazine. During 20,100 accident-free flying hours beginning with a fabric-covered, 65hp hand-started Aeronca Champion, he flew Beechcraft King Air A100s in central
and eastern Canada and recently completed a five-month Arctic contract for Yellowknife’s Buffalo Airways. Previously, Grant spent 15 years in various African nations and flew
his first King Air 200 in Chad for a US-based humanitarian organization called Air Serv. He currently resides in Ottawa and will likely fly again somewhere for someone.
SEPTEMBER 2019
KING AIR MAGAZINE • 11