Stewart Collection ➔ Negative, Film
Archival Item
2008.5.119
Black and white negative of Yukon Airways & Exploration Company Ltd. airplane, Queen of the Yukon II (CF-AHD), the airplane is on wheels on the ground. Two men are beside the plane; one appears to be loading baggage into a hatch of the fuselage. Mountains are visible in the background; baggage and freight on the ground besdie the airplane; landscape indicates this photo was taken in the Yukon.
Gordon Stewart joined Yukon Airways & Exploration Company Ltd. in the summer of 1929 when the company purchased a new Ryan B5, to be the Queen of the Yukon II. The plane was picked up in St. Louis, Missouri by pilot John Patterson and flown to Seattle, Washington. It was in Seattle that Gordon Stewart began his tenure with Yukon Airways. Pontoons were fitted on the plane at Renton airport and they began their barnstorming trip up the west coast of B.C. on their way to the Yukon.