https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal ... -1.6353816Quote:
It took six years to pull it off, but Air Inuit President Christian Busch says the completion of the arduous process of cutting a new cargo door in what started out as a 50-passenger plane means the remote Inuit communities served by the airline will now have more timely access to crucial goods.
"We had to adapt the cargo transportation of the north to today's realities," said Busch. "Important tools such as ATVs, snowmobiles, mining equipment were all increasing in size."
The modifications / conversion of a Dash8-300 may make flying out hardshell canoes from northern Quebec more feasible, there are also some access points at smaller communities which did not have cargo service that could handle 16" canoes.
They plan to do another conversion if they can raise the $5 Million required (maybe a bit less for the second one)