In the wild wild West of Northern Canada, classic planes like the 1940s Curtiss C-46 Commando and the world's last flying Lockheed Electra operate daily to deliver vital supplies to remote communities ...

Buffalo Airways, based in Yellowknife, NWT Canada, operates a C-46 cargo aircraft today. Another is regularly seen on the Kenai Airport (PAEN) ramp in south-central Alaska. The C-46 was also used ...

Four months later, a Buffalo Airways C-46 plane, bound to pick up freight in Hay River, N.W.T., caught fire after it blew an engine while taxiing down the runway at the Yellowknife airport.

Transport Canada says it has reinstated Buffalo Airways' Air Operator Certificate effective immediately. In a news release issued late Tuesday, the agency said the move came following the ...