Accident: 02-Oct-1954, Fox Mountain, Halfway Creek, Yukon. Aircraft crashed into a rock face near the bottom of a cirque at 4,275 ft., whilst routing Whitehorse, Ross River, Vangorda. Wreckage found on 13-Oct-1954. Four occupants received fatal injuries. It was contracted to haul fuel and personnel to Army Survey camps where Kenting Hiller 360s were operating. Aircraft recovered and rebuilt. Reported as having “new” construction number of 15-R. Ca. Apr-1958.

This note from Bob Cameron:

When FHA was missing in 1954 it was indeed a survey party member who spotted a strange flickering light in the direction of Fox Mountain, seven days after the aircraft had gone missing. That sighting lead to the discovery of the burnt-out wreckage, which had mysteriously set itself on fire after seven days of lying on a barren snow-swept mountainside. No one had survived the impact. An RCAF S-51 was indeed involved in the search, but it was destroyed in a crash at Quiet Lake during a refueling stop. So the actual retrieval of the bodies was done with the Hudson Bay S-55 flown by Ross Lennox.

On that fateful trip it was merely finishing up its last charter of the float season, not hauling fuel for an Army Survey. In the summers of 1950, 51 and 52 it flew on the federal Topographical Survey in the north Yukon, hauling fuel and camp supplies in support of the two Kenting Hiller 360 helicopters on that mapping project.

In the air-to-air shot, that is George Milne visible flying FHA. On October 2, 1954 George Milne and his three passengers were killed in the crash of FHA in a cirque on Fox Mountain a hundred miles north of Whitehorse. The aircraft was totally destroyed, the only thing surviving for a "re-build" being the tag.