Ice Pilots NWT star and pilot Arnie Schreder died in B.C. May 5 at age 69. A memorial service will be held Saturday afternoon in Yellowknife.
Family and friends will say their final goodbyes to former Buffalo Airways pilot Arnie Schreder at a service Saturday afternoon in Yellowknife.
Schreder, 69, died of lung cancer May 5 in British Columbia. A service was held Thursday in B.C.
His family flew to Yellowknife on Friday with his ashes. His daughter, Yvette Schreder, said her father's final wish was to fly back North.
"After spending 40 years here, it was his home still, I suppose, even though he didn't want to be here anymore because of the cold,” she said.
“But he wanted to come home and we wanted to do that the best way we could and this was it. This is dad's final flight coming home."
On arrival at the airport, fire trucks showered the DC3 with an arch of water as it approached the Buffalo Airways hangar.
"When a pilot retires, it’s a tradition to have two fire trucks make an arch and have the plane taxi through on its last flight coming in,” said Mikey McBryan, general manager of Buffalo Airways.
“It's a tradition. Sometimes it’s a happy one, or a sad one, like today."
For 40 years, Schreder worked and lived in the North and mentored younger pilots. He retired from Buffalo Airways in 2010.
He's remembered by many for his appearances in the television show Ice Pilots NWT.
A memorial service for Schreder will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Buffalo Airways hangar in Yellowknife.
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