The Yukon Airways and Exploration Company Limited has just been incorporated as a private company with a capital of $50,000. The head office of the company will be at Whitehorse. James F. Finnegan, of Wernecke, is president; Clyde G. Wann, of Keno, vice-president; Andrew D. Cruikshank, of Whitehorse, general manager; and C. A. K. Innes-Taylor, of Whitehorse, advisory director.
This company, with base at Whitehorse, will serve all parts of Yukon, and particularly those parts which are without transportation facilities.
This new enterprise is backed principally by mining men, the object in view being to help open up Yukon by making it more accessible to the prospector and mining engineer.
For the time being no regular schedule will be attempted but the necessary arrangements are being made to handle expeditiously all business offering. With the opening of the winter season it is anticipated that a schedule service will be started with a view to serving Mayo, Keno, Dawson, Engineer and Atlin.
Passenger and freight service, special contracts, prospecting and
exploration work of all kinds, will form the chief activities of the new company, and in this connection the amount of business already in prospect is most encouraging.
The machines toa be used are being built by the Ryan Air Lines
Inc., of San Diego, California, and are known as the "Ryan Brougham." They are of the monoplane type, equipped with interchangeable landing gear, wheels, pontoons or skis. They are engined with the Wright Whirlwind 200 horse power air-cooled motor. They are of the type and model used by Byrd on his North Pole flight in 1926, and are particularly adapted to work in extreme cold.
Being of the cabin type these machines can carry the pilot and three passengers, or pilot and 1200 pounds pay load. They have a high speed of 135 miles an hour, a cruising speed of 105 miles an hour, and land at 40 miles an hour. The service ceiling is 14,000 feet. They have been tested and passed by the United States Air Board,
and approved by the Canadian Air Board as air worthy.
Mr. Cruikshank, who is an experienced flyer and aeronautical engineer, has recently successfully passed the necessary tests at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station at Vancouver, for which he has been granted a commercial license. He is now at San Diego making a careful inspection of the machine now under construction, which he will
bring north with him early in June. The machine will be shipped from San Diego to Carcross and assembled and tested there.
And this only one of several instances of the growing prosperity in Yukon.
