It'll be an adventure like no other, as a group of pilots, engineers, and aviation enthusiasts took off to the Canadian North this week, as part of the Canadian Arctic Aviation Tour 2017.

Being called the most ambitious Canada 150 event yet, this group of flyers will be travelling around the vast North, performing 97 air shows over an 11 week period, and planning to travel over 31,000 km across Canada's Arctic.

The tour will stop in a number of remote villages, a lot of them only accessible by plan, and perform air shows and flybys for the residents.

This tour gives those northern residents an opportunity to take part in some of Canada's birthday celebrations, as well as demonstrating to the rest of us below the 60th parallel the importance of flight in the North.

Former Health and Safety Coordinator with the City of Lacombe Hannelie Rosdal is a part of this tour, and will be in charge of dealing with all the logistics that go into keeping the aircrafts in the sky in an area with limited access to resources such as fuel, oil, and spare parts, just to name a few.

Rosdal says most Canadians have limited knowledge of the northern part of their country, and don't realize the importance aviation played in settling those remote areas.

"I think it's a great project, because the North, evolved, through aviation. So I think that's a main part, as to why the tour (is a) go. And like I said, it's amazing how big, actually, Canada itself is. It's a really special occasion for Canadians to connect with our past, and celebrate the achievements, and to build the future legacy."

The tour plans to perform in Alert, Nunavut, which the most northern permanently inhabited point in the world, as well as performing in Baker Lake, Nunavut on July 1st, which is the geographical centre of Canada.

To donate to the tour and buy a kilometer in their name, you can go to their caat website.

A map detailing the tours route through the Arctic. (Photo courtesy of CAAT website)