Western Straits Air

Charter Aircraft Company

Company Logo

• Owned by Gynn Bay Logging Ltd. of Campbell River.
• Owned by Ames Management Group, in 1995 a local resource group in Campbell River that also employed the crew.
• License cancelled in 1996, due to insurance problems.

DHC-2 Mk I, “Beaver”

• C-FHGX,
• C-FRJG,
• C-GPVB

DHC-3, “Otter”

• C-FSVP
• C-FXUY
• C-FMPY
• C-FEBX¹

Cessna

C-GBQJ, Cessna A185F C-GJXQ Cessan 180J C-FBIY, Cessna 180H C-FEWP, Cessna U206D, last plane registration cancelled Aug 9, 2005

¹ C-FEBX

c/n 38
de Havilland Canada, DHC-3 Turbo Otter
1 Pratt & Whitney PT6A-135A
Photo from Brooke Hodson

Crashed Sept 27, 1995

• Killed the Pilot, and 7 passengers, out of 9.
• Plane written off.
• Crashed 13 km NW, on approach to Campbell River Airport,
• Flying from Triumph Bay.
• Plane originated as a charter in Kitimat.
• Some of the passengers were loggers going home for the weekend.
• This plane first flew Apr 5, 1954.
• Further Info (ext Link)

Survivors- Charlotte Pfister(Camp Cook) and Len Brown.

Fatalities- Veteran Pilot- Dan White, age 37 (Others unknown)

Miles Roseborough was Company spokesman at the time of the accident.

This plane was once owned by the RCMP, as CF-MPK
then became CF-EBX, before C-FEBX.