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Antarctic Adventurer

C-FTFX, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, holding short of runway 30 at Oshawa Executive Airport in Oshawa, Ontario.

 

Serial number 340 first flew on November 17, 1971. It began its career as CF-TFX with Wardair Canada Ltd. at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on January 18, 1972.

 

It is currently operated by Enterprise Air Inc. (EAI) out of Oshawa and wears the wordmark and logo of White Desert Ltd. of London, England. That company operates adventure tours on Antarctica.

 

The aircraft departed Oshawa on October 14, then it flew to Nassau, Bahamas; Panama City, Panama; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Arica, Chile; and Conception, Chile before arriving at Punta Arenas, Chile (at the southern tip of South America) on October 19.

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Uploaded on October 16, 2023
Taken on October 11, 2023