JetFlix TV’s Henry Tenby provides a fascinating look back at the white-knuckled propliner operations at Bronson Creek airstrip in Northwestern BC back in the 1980s and 1990s. At the time this isolated land-locked 5000 ft. gravel airstrip was the site of one of the largest active gold mines in North America, the Snip Gold Mine.

From Wrangel in Alaska, all bulk fuel and cargo supplies had to be transported in by cargo planes to keep the min running, and gold concentrate was hauled out by air in the long winter months. Heavily loaded antique propliners from the 1950s flown by grizzled pilots in poor weather, tight river valleys, to an airport tucked in a valley with steep mountains and unforgiving terrain, resulted major challenges to the pilots.