Rankin Inlet Airport Action 1994 – NWT Air | Calm Air | Canadian North
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JetFlix TV founder Henry Tenby visited Rankin Inlet airport on August 22, 1994, with his video camera to film the action on hand at the airfield in anticipation of the Queen’s visit later that same day. The airliner residents of the era included Calm Air and their HS748s, and NWT Air and Canadian North with the Boeing 737-200 combi jetliners, and even Kewaatin Air and their Merliner.
Situated an hour and a half North of Winnipeg by 737-200, Rankin Inlet, NWT, is also situated half way between Yellowknife and Iqaluit, so it was a regular port-of-call for NWT Air and their Boeing 737-200s on the famous “Trans-Territorial” route. Rankin Inlet is not an easy place to get to, and it attracts pretty much zero in terms of mass tourism traffic, so footage of aircraft filmed at the airport as quite rare.
This footage was also filmed on the day of Queen’s visit. For Royal followers, watch for the Queen’s appearance at the end of this film.
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What a cool job you had, Henry. Airline company photographer. I’ll bet you’ve seen some pretty cool stuff in that job. Lot’s of great pictures plus being with the airline probably came with some good perks. I really like these steps back in time. It was a different environment back then before 9/11. Thanks for putting these up for us to see.
I loved working for NWT Air, it was a dream job for a late 20s early 30s hard core airliner freak like me back in the mid 1990s.The travel perks were great but I only ever had 14 days of paid leave per year so I was not able to travel nearly as much as I would have liked to. Yes I did a few very cool trips over the years, but they were always pretty fast surgical strikes. Because I was living in Yellowknife I filmed and photographed what I could on my weekends pretty much stuff up there. Of course I was the first to do videos of Buffalo Airways because I thought it was an amazing operation and was a story worth capturing. And decades later Ice Pilots took up the idea and did a polished TV show with the resources I could never muster as a one man operation with a hand held 8mm Sony consumer camera in the mid 1990s. I had the seed idea but I lacked the organizational skills, film industry contacts and production abilities to do something really special. Oh well.