Bellanca 66-70
Aircruiser CF-AWR
(c/n 719)
Bellanca produced sturdy "bush" type aircraft and hence found a ready
market among the operators
of Northern
Canada. This machine was purchased by Mackenzie Air Services in
1935. The company
was formed in 1932 by Leigh Britnell to provide service from Edmonton
to the mines at Great Bear
Lake. It was still operating within the Canadian Pacific Airlines
schedules into the 1940s with the slogan
"Radium Silver
Express" under the cabin windows. It was written off in a crash
in 1947 and lay
abandoned until the
1970s when an attempt was made to retrieve it. It may possibly be
still under
restoration.