NARWHAL 04 - Pangnirtung - 427 Sqn

Exercise NARWHAL 2004
Exercise NARWHAL 04 was held in August 2004 in the Cumberland Peninsula area of Baffin Island, Nunavut, primarily in Pangnirtung and Iqaluit. The main scenario for the exercise involved locating a downed simulated foreign satellite that had crashed on Canadian territory. Exercise NARWHAL 04 comprised about 600 sailors, soldiers and air men and air women from the following military organizations:
Canadian Forces Northern Area Headquarters (CFNA HQ, now JTFN)
427 Tactical Helicopter Squadron
440 Transport Squadron
G Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment
HMCS Montreal
Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre (CFEC)
Directorate of Space Development (D Space D)
The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Henry Larsen also participated in the exercise.