Since 1970 · Yellowknife, NWT
Your Passage
to the North
Cargo, charter flights and wildfire response across the North. Family run from Yellowknife since 1970, with the aircraft and crews to reach places the road can't.
What we fly for
Three Jobs.
One Airline.
01Air Charter
Passenger, combi and freight charters on the Electra, C-46, DC-3 and King Air.
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02Cargo & Freight
Jet freight to gravel strips — up to 42,900 lbs, and a courier network reaching over 400 communities.
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03Fire Suppression
Airtankers, water bombers and bird dogs on contract to the Government of the NWT.
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The Fleet
Our legacy is trust
A Family Airline, Still Flying the Classics
Founded by Joe McBryan — Buffalo Joe — and operating out of Yellowknife ever since. Scheduled cargo, charters, fuel and firefighting, flown on aircraft nobody else still flies.
Inside the Yellowknife hangarMore than a fleet.The people who keep it flying.Meet Buffalo →
Plane Savers
Bringing a DC-3
Back to Life
Mikey McBryan and his crew spent two months saving an abandoned Douglas DC-3 in the middle of Quebec — back in the air after 30 years on the ground, with a first flight on June 6th, 2019. D-Day.
Buffalo Airwear
Wear the Buffalo
Hoodies, hats and aircraft models, shipped from the hangar in Yellowknife — or drop by the store inside it and take a free hangar tour while you're there.