From there he went to RAF Twinwood, boarded a Noorduyn Norseman single-engined aircraft, took off for Paris - and was never heard of again.
He performed the first flight test of the Noorduyn Norseman, the first Canadian bushplane designed to withstand harsh Canadian flight conditions.
Over a third of those hours were logged in Austin Airway's Noorduyn Norseman, CF-BSC.
It consisted of a Noorduyn Norseman and two Fairchild PT-19, which were mostly used for transport and surveying flights.
She flew Noorduyn Norseman and de Havilland Otter seaplanes and later Twin Otter on scheduled routes and mercy flights for Widerøe's Flyveselskap north of the Arctic Circle.