Leigh Brintnell

Leigh Brintnell, Mackenzie Air Service, was the first pilot to fly from Aklavik to Dawson. His 1929 flight followed the Peel and Blackstone rivers and then he worked his way through the Ogilvie Mountains. He was flying a Fokker Super Universal on floats and completed the flight without maps, navigational aids, or weather reporting stations.¹⁾ Brintnell’s air service company was one of ten carriers absorbed into Canadian Pacific Airlines in 1942.²⁾