“I watch a lot of pilots in the North fly their floatplanes, fly other airplanes, and they would fit into a job like this very well.”
Joe McBryan wants to turn northern pilots into the next generation of people fighting wildfires from the air, and now he has the aircraft to do it.
Buffalo Airways – the NWT-based airline that “Buffalo Joe” has called home for decades – now has a two-seat training version of the Air Tractor AT-802, or Fire Boss, an aircraft used to tackle wildfires that has become a familiar sight over the territory’s skies in recent years. A second plane is on the way.
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