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Below we see the Pheasant on the Saskatchewan
River in Prince Albert either in the winter of 1929 or
1930. In 1931, Cherry Red Airline was history. All
other aviation up until the arrival of Norman Cherry
and his Pheasant had been either government or

By Will Chabun big business, here was an entrepreneur who was
Prince Albert got its first commercial aviation company, successful and proved the possibilities of this form
the Cherry Red Line Limited, owned and operated by of aviation.
Norman Cherry and H. Holroyde. Cherry, a
Saskatchewanian who had worked in the U.S., returned
to Canada with a two-seat Pheasant biplane

What is so remarkable is that the Pheasant is an
obscure aircraft made in few numbers but this one
survived and we can see it as it is on display at the
Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw.

and later added a Buhl Airsedan.

The focus of their charter business was Consolidated
Smelters, which had opened a facility at Rottenstone Lake
in northern Saskatchewan. Although this mining traffic
did not materialize, the firm carried the first airmail into
Prince Albert. The company printed its own postage
stamps and distributed them to agents in the north. A
ten-cent stamp would carry one ounce into Prince Albert.

These stamps are now rare and were trading at a
premium among collectors 75 years later.