Fig 3. Royal Canadian Air Force Arctic response times and cost.

Travel times for RCAF CC-130 SAR assets from takeoff to location are depicted above. RCAF has CC-130 currently at CFB Winnipeg, CFB Trenton, and CFB Greenwood. The map shows time from the closest aircraft, if aircraft were only dispatched for their zone, times in the far north would increase by roughly 2 hours. More information about calculations, as well as times for helicopter responses, can be found in the S1 File. Basemap shapefiles are modified and republished from Government of Canada under a CC BY license, with permission from Natural Resources Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations, original copyright 2018. Contains information licensed under the Open Government License–Canada [11,12].