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From Port Alberni, B.C. to Paris, France.
 Tseshaht First Nation member hits landing strip after 38 years as United Airlines pilot.Wallace Watts spent his 38-year career as a commercial pilot for United Airlines travelling the world, visiting countless places every week.
One of the first Indigenous pilots to be hired by a major commercial airline, received two awards for preventing a plane crash on two different occasions.
From hiking Mount Huashan in China, deemed the world's deadliest hike, to biking in the jungles of Singapore, to his many visits to Paris and Rome, his career, which combined his love for aviation with a passion for travel, has been memorable.
“It’s pretty much allowed me to do everything I’ve ever wanted to do, see everything I’ve wanted to see, and taste everything I wanted to eat,” said Watts, 65.
“Looking back, I was really thoroughly blessed to be able to fly that much and see the entire world.”
Flying commercially was the realization of a dream that began when he was a teenager growing up in Port Alberni.
His first job was flying for Austin Airways out of Timmins, Ontario in 1980, when he was 22. Photo below show Watts, on the left, with Luke, a station manager for Austin Airways, with one of their DHC-6 Twin Otters.
Source: vancouversun.com
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