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'Ice Pilots' air carrier licence suspended by Transport Canada

The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, December 2, 2015 12:28PM EST

Buffalo Airways Douglas DC3 1942 airplane

Stephen Harper, middle, walks beside a Douglas DC3 1942 airplane with 'Buffalo Joe' McBryan, left, owner of Buffalo Airways and his son Mikey McBryan in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on August 25, 2011. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

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YELLOWKNIFE - A northern air carrier behind the popular TV show "Ice Pilots" has been grounded.

Transport Canada says it has suspended the operating licence for Yellowknife's Buffalo Airways over what it calls the carrier's poor safety record.

The suspension took effect Tuesday morning.

Buffalo Airways, with its fleet of Second World War era DC-3 airplanes, was the subject of a long-running reality TV show on the History Canada channel.

"Ice Pilots" ran for six seasons until last December.

A spokesman from the carrier could not immediately be reached for comment.