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C-FOBY at Fort Frances, Ontario.
Photo: Tom Singfield © August 2007 - Aird Archives
Photos: Neil Aird © 13 September 2003
Photo: Bruce W. Gowans © 2002 - Aird Archives
Photo: John Kimberley © April 1993
C-FOBT sets out as Caravan demonstrator N9828F arrives.
Photo: Mike H. Kemper © August 1992 - (Mike's website)
C-FOBT awaits another winter.
Photo: Robert S. Grant © November 1990 - Aird Archives
C-FOBT sits in the weeds.
Photo: Robert S. Grant © December 1984 - Aird Archives
C-FOBT on her beaching gear, at Fort Frances, Ontario.
Photo: Bruce W. Gowans © July 1982 - Aird Archives
CF-OBT at a rainy Fort Frances.
Photo: Unknown photographer © 15 August 1980 - Ian MacFarlane Collection
CF-OBT at Thirty Mile Lake, NWT.
Photo: Peter Hews © July/August 1975
CF-OBT early in her career at Killala Lake.
Photo: Unknown photographer © 1948 - via Toni Kazakoff
CF-OBT ready for a dolly departure at Downsview.
This was the infamous dolly take off, where it ended up hitting Phil Garratt's Studebaker! The car was written off. George Neal made it safely to the Toronto Island seaplane base with CF-OBT.
Photos: DHC © 29 April 1948 - Prints B-179 and B-180 - Aird Archives

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29-Jan-1948 Department of Lands And Forests submit Certificate Of Registration applications for CF-OBS, CF-OBT, CF-OBU, CF-OBV, CF-OBW & CF-OBX.

Certificate of Airworthiness # 2818 & Certificate of Registration # 7236 issued 22-Apr-1948.

• CF-OBT Province of Ontario, Department of Lands and Forests, Toronto. ON. Delivered 29-Apr-1948.

Note: Total hours flown in 1954 1,774.10.

• CF-OBT & C-FOBT Rainy Lake Airways Ltd., Fort Frances, ON. Circa 1959 until canx 03-May-1991.

• C-FOBT Rusty Myers Flying Service (1986) Ltd., Fort Frances, ON. Regd 03-May-1991 & 26-Sep-1991. Base of operations Fort Frances, ON Canx 07-Jan-2019.

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