08/31/2015. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The Fairchild Aircraft Manufacturing of Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, USA, manufactured this aircraft in 1927. On October 27, 1927, the aircraft was delivered to the Fairchild Aviation Ltd. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Registered G-CAIH (c/n 18), it was flown by the company's president and chief pilot, Hubert M. Pasmore. Subsequent operators were Northern Air Express, Interprovincial Airways, Canadian Airways, W.H. Cross, Airway Carriers, and then Pacific Airways. On January 18, 1934, the registration G-CAIH was cancelled and the aircraft was converted into a Fairchild 51A.

The converted aircraft was given a new c/n (769) and was registered as CF-AUX to Bridge River & Caribou Airways on March 28, 1934. Later it was operated by Ginger Coote Airways of Vancouver, which in February 1938 opened up a regular service between Vancouver and Zeballos, Vancouver Island. On May 27, 1938, this aircraft and its four occupants disappeared and after two days of searching by four aircraft, the search was abandoned because it was believed that the pilot became lost in the fog and fell into the sea.

Nine months later, March 9, 1939, British Columbia police found the wreckage of the missing aircraft strewn at the foot of several tall trees in a bush-covered hill section near Alberni Canal (presently Alberni Inlet) about 13 mls (21 km) from Port Alberni. Inside the crumpled fuselage were the remains of the missing persons: Pilot Len Waagens, passenger Mary Nichelson (wife of George Nicholson, postmaster and airline agent at Zeballos), and the two other passengers."