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2 unusual facts about Resolute Bay


Air Charter Travel

One aircraft carried fuel and touched down near Resolute Bay in Northern Canada while the second plane, carrying passengers, travelled onto the North Pole.

Alert Airport

CFS Alert airfield was built sometime in the 1950s and is supplied by military aircraft only, but in 2011, Buffalo Airways was contracted to carry fuel and sleds between Resolute Bay and Alert; the airfield is required for transport of personnel and provisions 12 months of the year.


Arctic Bay Airport

On January 13, 2010, First Air transferred all air services to Arctic Bay's newly expanded airport with service to Iqaluit and Resolute Bay.


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