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delivered. We have found this aeroplane to be a very useful piece of equipment. Its 

 maintenance problems are not particularly difficult, and its performance far excels 

 anything that Canada has ever seen before. Five more of the same type are on order 

 for delivery in 1950 — and this will bring our fleet up to a total of forty-five aircraft. 

 In the preceding year our Stinson S.R.9 aircraft were retired from service and were 

 put up for sale. The last of them has just been sold at the time of compiling this report. 



Winter Operations 



Winter operations as expanded during the winter of 1948-49 were continued 

 during the past winter. Beaver aircraft were operated on skis from Toronto. Algonquin 

 Park, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Gogama, Chapleau, Geraldton, Port Arthur, Eva 

 Lake; and two Norseman were operated from Sioux Lookout. This gave us a total of 

 ten aircraft on winter operations. A good deal of their flying was occupied in the 

 supervision and enforcement of the Fish and Wildlife regulations, but considerable 

 flying was also done in the supervision of timber and logging operations, transportation 

 of scalers, selection of tower sites, and normal transportation incident to the movement 

 of senior officials through parts of the country which are relatively inaccessible by any 

 other means of travel. 



Maintenance of Service Buildings 



Normal maintenance of all Service property was carried out as usual. Painting 

 and normal repairs were undertaken where necessary in order to keep our property up 

 to proper standards. 



Accidents 



During the period involved the Service lost one aircraft Norseman CF-OBC, 

 which was burned in a forest fire at Sutton Lake in August of 1949. The engine, floats, 

 and propeller were salvaged, but apart from these the aeroplane was a total loss. A 

 Beaver went through the ice on early winter operations, north of Chapleau in December 

 of 1949, but we were able to salvage the aeroplane intact and it was actually flown 

 back to Sault Ste. Marie for necessary reconditioning. We are very pleased to report 

 that we had no fatal or serious accidents. 



The following tables are submitted as supplementary to this Report: — 



^ndex of Jabtei 



Table No. Page 



1. Allocation of aircraft ------------- 16 



2. Flying time — pilots -------------- i6 



3. Hours FLOWN on VARIOUS PHASES OF FLYING operations - - - 17 



4. Totals ----.--..-.---.---17 



5. Hours flown at bases --------------17 



6. Flying time aircraft - -----..17 



7. .Allocation of aircraft -------- is 



8. Transport aircraft — effective loads carrtep ------ iq 



