Stock Certificate
Archival Item
1996.44.1
Stock certificate for Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited. Issued to Arthur Hand for 300 shares in the company at $1.00 each share, dated November 20, 1929. Signed Clyde Wann, Secretary and W.A. Puckett, President.
This certificate was issued to folks who invested in the newly formed Yukon Airways and Exploration Company stocks circa 1920's.
Pilot and former Mountie Andrew Cruickshank and his American
prospector partner, Clyde Wann, founded Yukon’s first commercial airline in November 1927, Yukon Airways & Exploration Company Ltd. The flagship for the company was a Ryan Brougham B-1 monoplane, sistership to Charles Lindberg’s Spirit of St. Louis, in which Lindberg made his historic transatlantic flight.
Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Ltd. was essentially defunct two years later, as all three of its aircraft had crashed by the end of November, 1929.
prospector partner, Clyde Wann, founded Yukon’s first commercial airline in November 1927, Yukon Airways & Exploration Company Ltd. The flagship for the company was a Ryan Brougham B-1 monoplane, sistership to Charles Lindberg’s Spirit of St. Louis, in which Lindberg made his historic transatlantic flight.
Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Ltd. was essentially defunct two years later, as all three of its aircraft had crashed by the end of November, 1929.