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Ice Pilots NWT is a living history series about the most unorthodox airline in the Canadian North.

Season Two premieres on Canada's History Television January 12, 2011 at 8pm ET/PT.

Season 2 Overview: Welcome back to holy *&%$!
Ice Pilots NWT is back. The hit docu-series following the adventures of renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways set ratings records in its debut last year. Now it’s back for a second season of nail-biting challenges and intimate personal stories featuring the pilots, engineers and crew who put it all on the line flying vintage warplanes across the last frontier on Earth. Our favourite faces and some new rookies show up for another season of thrills, tension, laughter and our most personal stories yet.

This season on Ice Pilots NWT: “Buffalo” Joe McBryan tests a new batch of rampies desperate to become Buffalo pilots, Mikey travels to Venezuela and England in search of prized planes, Rod’s wife Sasha gives birth and hockey fever spreads through the hangar as the DC-3 flies the iconic Stanley Cup on a tour of the North. Once again Buffalo’s young pilots battle a host of obstacles. Devan and Scott struggle to maintain their cool as engines act up on the C-46. Crusty Mr. Fix-it Chuck faces off with a stubborn Electra and the team of crack mechanics mount the DC-3 on skis just in time for Arnie and AJ to land on a lake of rapidly thinning ice.

In Season One of Ice Pilots NWT, Buffalo Airways took a treacherous transatlantic journey in the middle of winter as crews deliver two Canadair CL-215 waterbombers to their new owners in Turkey. The problem? These aircraft were not designed to fly in winter conditions and were not configured for flying over larges bodies of water. Getting there proved to be a daring feat.

Repeats of Season One are airing on Thursdays and Sundays on Canada's History Television. Check local listings for air times!

Arctic airline Buffalo Airways defies the freezing cold and the competition by using resilient WWII-era propeller planes to fly vital fuel, supplies and passengers to remote outposts all over the Canadian North. From landing essential cargo onto airstrips at mine sites to carving out runways on frozen lakes and rocky tundra, the Ice Pilots do it all, despite frequent blizzards and breakdowns.

New recruits come to slog it out on the ramp in -30˚C weather to earn a chance to fly planes that most airlines scrapped long ago. Classics like the Douglas DC-3 and DC-4 and the Curtiss C-46 Commando—the very planes that once ferried troops and supplies in WWII.

Ice Pilots NWT gives viewers a rare look at life “north of 60”. With the economic downturn, a dwindling supply of specialty aviation gas and the high cost of flying vintage aircraft, the very future of Buffalo Airways hangs in the balance.

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