Based in scenic Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, we are able to serve any customer in a timely manner.
We can make it work.
“Captain Dave”
Sterling Pacific Air Ltd. President and Owner, Captain David (Dave) Crerar has over 50,000hrs of flying experience in a wide variety of single and multi-engine, piston and turbine equipped aircraft. Having started his flying career on BC’s West Coast, he learned the trials of low weather days and rough waters. From Canada’s West coast to the far north, Dave gained invaluable experience in varying climates and aircraft of ever increasing levels of complexity.
C-185s, DHC-2 Beavers and DHC-3 Single Otters on floats and wheels led the way up through B727, L-100 Hercules and B737-200. From the early 1980s, he owned his own Beaver and, along with several other small aircraft from time to time, operated a charter service on his days off. Before his early retirement from the Canadian airline industry, he added B767 and B747-400 to his repertoire.
Nord 262, Dornier 228 and Beach 1900 are some of the intermediate types Dave has on his license too.
Choosing early “retirement” allowed him to focus on his real passion of hands-on flying in multiple types and providing a valued service delivering aircraft.
Charter flights to fishing lodges and fly-in camps along with fire patrols, scenic mountain tours and high altitude glacier operations in summer, back country lodges and ski huts in winter mixed with year round Medevac and Hot Shot services made for interesting days spent in the air.
In the past decade, contract piloting has taken Dave across the big oceans again, multiple times, this time mostly in Twin Otters.
Across and through Greenland to Iceland, the EU, Islands of the Mediterranean, across deserts of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE and on to the Maldives on different trips, Dave has been in the air more days every year than days just on the ground.
He has ferried aircraft clear across America from Washington state to Florida, the Caribbean and South into Central America; from the West coast of America to Hawaii, Fiji, Majuro, Truk, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. From Alaska, down the Eastern side of Russia, Japan and South Korea, Dave has vastly broadened his list of international airports from his 767 and 747-400 days.
And to top it all off, he has been generous in sharing and passing on his experience to younger pilots with his personal ’Junior Captains program’ that many a young First Officer has told tale of in the lower ranks.
Over the years Dave has made countless contacts in the industry and has a pool of pilots and aviation professionals to draw from to accomplish any job.
Always up for a challenge, if it involves an airplane, Dave is bound to find a way into the cockpit so he can get back in the air, where he feels most at home.