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Air Tindi employees, friends and well-wishers gathered on the rock behind the airlineSA国际影视传媒檚 Latham Island office to watch him land the last flight of his career on Aug. 2. They then threw a retirement party for him.

Reid, originally from Saskatoon, Sask., was a pilot with the for 25 years in Yellowknife and northern Saskatchewan and with Air Tindi for 20 years.

That marks Reid as a rarity for Northern pilots, said Air Tindi president Chris Reynolds.

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His work with Tindi took him all over the NWT, Nunavut and the High Arctic.

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