BILL EWING COLLECTION
No. 5916. Noorduyn Norseman Mk.V (CF-BHS c/n N29-7) Lambair
Top: Photographed ca. 1962, via Jack Lamb
Bottom: Photographed at Thompson, Manitoba, Canada, June 28, 2008, by Bill Ewing

Noorduyn Norseman Mk.V

11/15/2006. Remarks by Bill Ewing: "A Norseman engine change in typical conditions. They NEVER have to be changed at home in a nice warm hangar with all the tools you'll ever need and a proper crane. That's just asking too much."

Noorduyn Norseman Mk.V
(Lambair Collection)

01/31/2009. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "New from the factory, the aircraft was registered as CF-BHS to Tom Lamb of Lamb Airways of The Pas, Manitoba, Canada, on October 4, 1945. Twenty-one years later, on May 16, 1966, the aircraft was sold to G.M. Clark and John F. Midgett of Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, It was reregistered to C and M Airways of La Loche, in 1971, while on September 28, 1989 it was registered to La Loche Airways.

Noorduyn Norseman Mk.V

While taxiing on Cree Lake, Saskatchewan, on October 11, 1989, fire broke out and the aircraft was beached on Prowse Island and subsequently was almost totally consumed by the fire. The registration was cancelled on April 4, 1990. Eighteen years later a static replica had been built from parts of a number of Norseman wrecks and fabricated wings. Finished in the colors of Lamb Airways and the original registration CF-BHS, it was unveiled on a pedestal in the Lions Park, Thompson, Manitoba, on June 28, 2008. This to commemorate the bushplane and their bush pilots, especially Tom Lamb."

Read the type remarks on page 11930.


Created November 15, 2006