Prime mover · the gravel jet
Boeing 737-200
C-GTVO — a straight freighter with a gravel kit, taking jet-speed cargo onto the unpaved strips no other jet will touch.
Buffalo’s second jet arrived in Yellowknife in March 2025: a 1982-built 737-200 freighter acquired from Chrono Aviation. It carries a gravel kit — nose-gear gravel deflector and engine vortex dissipators — making it one of the very few jets certified onto gravel runways.
That is the whole point: most of the North’s communities have gravel strips, and the -200 brings them jet freight directly. It wears a livery of its own doing it — black tail, white buffalo.
Registry
- C-GTVO
Specifications
| Type | 737-200 freighter · gravel kit |
|---|---|
| Registration | C-GTVO |
| Built | 1982 · MSN 22994 |
| Previous operator | Chrono Aviation |
| Joined Buffalo | March 2025 |
| Role | Gravel-strip jet freighter |
| Max payload | Up to 30,000 lbs |
| Main-deck cargo door | 134 × 86 in |
On the ramp and in the air
