Ice Pilots

C-46 (C-GTXW) has an engine fire during takeoff. To deliver Christmas freight up the Mackenzie Valley while the C-46 is down, Buffalo Joe decides to use the Electra. An Electra in Yellowknife has a cracked windshield and needs to be repaired. The other Electra is stored at Red Deer but it is full of issues after sitting outside the whole winter. Engineers scramble to get the planes fixed.

Northwest Territories is hit by the worst ice storm in years. Chief Pilot AJ Decoste flys a Electra newly bought from England to deliver goods up the Mackenzie Valley before the storm arrives. A new rampie from Ottawa is having a tough time to fit in with other rampies in Hay River. Watermain broke and froze the pipes at a Buffalo pilot's home, forcing the family members to stay in Mikey's house for a few days.

A tug towing a plane ran out of fuel on an active taxiway, sparking a heated discussion about refuelling responsibility between Joe, Mikey, and a rampie. Meanwhile, Joe has more things on his mind since Transport Canada conducted a surprise audit on the airline. Joe was given 72 hours to hand over the accountable executive position to another staff. Chuck just finished repairing an engine on a newly bought Electra but it broke again after just one flight. He has to quickly troubleshoot the engine trouble so that the Electra can deliver building supplies to RCMP outpost in Ulukhaktok. Joe's dog Sophie is found underneath a plane inside the hangar and can't stand up. Mikey and Joe know her time is up and have to make a tough decision.

Joe is approaching 70 years old. He will lose his pilot license unless he passes the medical exam. He decides to fly to California and do his check up. Meanwhile, two rampies who have worked in Buffalo's ramp for 9 months get a chance to do a check ride on a DC-3. But things may not go to plan as one of the rampies got food poisoning on the day of the check ride. The McBryan family ordered a birthday cake for Joe. The only problem? Joe is still in California on the day of his birthday and contemplating his future.

Newly licensed DC-3 co-pilot Jeff Tapper had a rough landing that nearly skidded off the runway. While Jeff works on his landing skills on a flight simulator, rampie Prefkar is studying hard to prepare for his IATAR test. But Prefkhar's studying distracted himself from his courier delivery job when he accidentally left medical supplies that have "do not freeze" sticker on the box inside the delivery truck overnight, spoiling the medical contents. Prefkhar faces the consequence for his mistakes and his time at Buffalo may be running out. Kathy and her friend is trying to get a new dog for Joe from local SPCA. Joe decides to bring out the seldom-flown DC-3 (C-FCUE) to test Jeff and the new dog, Muffy. C-FCUE has a storied history. It was the first aircraft that landed in Yellowknife and carried Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau before. But C-FCUE's controls are different than most DC-3 aircraft in Buffalo's fleet. Can Jeff quickly learn to fly the plane to redeem himself and can Muffy withstand flying in the air and become Joe's new dog?

Prefkar gets a cold shoulder from Joe due to the earlier courier cargo incident. Mikey arranges a few opportunities for Prefkar to co-pilot DC-3 cargo flights but weather threatens to halt the flight before plane even gets in the air. While one of Buffalo's DC-3 (C-FWZS) is rumoured to have participated in D-Day invasion, Mikey finally gets confirmation and military record from historian that it did participate by dropping paratroopers in Operation Tonga. Mikey decides to work with Royal Canadian Air Force to celebrate 70th anniversary of D-Day. He and Cory needs to prepare C-FWZS for an reenactment of paratropping and participate in the reenactment themselves. Working under a tight deadline, they need to search for parachuting parts that were removed from DC-3 many years ago. Mikey turns to online help while Cory searches for the parts stored inside the Red Deer maintenance hangar. At the same time, Mikey is trying to lose weight to avoid exceeding the maximum weight limit for tandem jump. Mikey and Cory finally find the crucial parachute jump part has always been inside the aircraft, covered by a canvas on the top of the cabin.

The static line that Mikey and Cory installed stood up to military inspection. But the military demanded an emergency retrieval system in case a paratrooper's chute got stuck by the horizontal stabilizer, something that hasn't invented back in WWII. Mikey and Cory scrambles to jerry-rig a retrieval system from the local hardware store. Four Buffalo Airways pilots were given time off to participate in aerial dogfighting in SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 fighter plane. The victor will be crowned Buffalo's Top Gun.

Mikey received the military approval from Canada and US for the D-Day tribute jump after 2 years of planning. Mikey invited 12 Green Berets and 12 Canadian paratroopers to participate. The original drop zone determined by the military was along the Abraham Lake. Joe thinks it's too risky because all four sides were surrounded by high mountains and refuses to fly into there. At Mikey's insistence, they found an alternate drop zone at Bighorn River that Joe agrees to fly into. The first day of the planned jump was scrapped due to low visibility. They have to wait for the second and final day to attempt the jump.