I have flown on AC and WJ to London and by far WJ was a better experience. The crews and counter don't have that old Crown Corp attitude that is still prevalent at AC

Worked for Superior 64 to 68 out of all the bases, no pictures couldn't afford a camera

Sunday, October 19th 1:00pm At the Aviation Heritage Center, Thunder Bay Ontario Our new location, 430 Waterloo St. South Facing the DaVinci Centre parking lot We will host a presentation on Superior Airways, a local company, founded by Orville Wieben, that made a major contribution to the developme...

I once flew a full size pool slate table tied on the otter, two 45' of gas tied on the other float for balance.
A little flap and 80MPH all the way. The aircraft handled good.

I bought CF ZVY from Larry Robllaird and Stan Turner around 72 or 73 and another Islander from Toronto CF ZUT and operated them out of Thunder Bay to the new air strips in the northern communities. Once did a trip from TBay to Whitehorse YT with nine diamond drillers,headwinds all the way.She is a b...

My wife speaks the Ojibway-Cree dialect of Northern Ontario. The word for pilot is "pimisaywinenen", which means the flying man. The word for airplane is "pimisaywin", which means the flying machine. The word "pimisay" in Ojibway means " to fly". We are complementing you in your obvious interest in ...

Great to see to see a picture of Johnny Morris. Johnny worked with me out of Thunder Bay in the 1970's for a few years....good AME and great guy. Also knew Moose at Pickle Lake had a few rides after the hotel closed for the nite. Another story of that time was when Duchey flew the Bellanca for Trans...

I have known Harvey since the sixties when he was rolling 45s around in two feet of mud to gas his airplane at Big Trout Lake. He and his wife and family have always been dedicated to the North and service to the Native people who lived in the remote communities. He was a hard worker who only got to...

Looks like this could be Armstrong as these were buildings that were used on the pine tree radar line
And they were all similar .The one at Armstrong has been torn down.
Baron

Do any of you kids rember the movie at Ontario Place North of Superior????

Indanao Pete an Robbie had a baron I don't remember the gear up thing but one time I the winter he was taxing out and still had a tie down ( tire full of cement ) tied to the tail. I tried to wave him down but he shot me the finger ,I think tower ask him where he was going to haul it to. He turned a...

Yea Pete was her husband but they have been divorced for a number of years.

For those of you that worked for Superior Airways and know the Wieben Family Robbie(Taylor) died On June 25. 2012. In Victotia BC. I am sure I know a lot of you posters as I worked for Superior from 1965 to 1968 and then across the ramp untill 1980 Little more on otter IKT as the story goes, it was ...