The aircraft flown by missing pilot David Douglas has been found in the City of Kawartha Lakes, but the 73-year-old man remains missing.
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton announced on Monday (August 17) that the overdue aircraft had been located on Wolf Lake in Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park.
“The search for the overdue aircraft has concluded,” the centre stated in a post on X. “The case is now with the Ontario Provincial Police as a missing person’s case.”
“Although not the outcome we wanted, we hope the efforts of all (search-and-rescue units) will aid the continued search,” the centre added.
The search for the overdue aircraft has concluded. It was found on Wolf Lake, in Queens Elizabeth II Provincial Park. The case is now with @OPP as a missing person’s case. Although not the outcome we wanted, we hope the efforts of all #SAR units will aid the continued search. pic.twitter.com/LPYjvdOwSV
— Trenton JRCC CCCOS (@JRCCTrentCCCOS) August 17, 2026
No further information has been released about the condition of the aircraft, how it was located, or the ongoing search for Douglas.
Located northwest of Coboconk and Kinmount, Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park is a 33,505-hectare park with no maintained public facilities or services.
As kawarthaNOW previously reported, Douglas departed Oshawa Executive Airport at 8:32 a.m. on Friday (August 14) in a light blue and yellow amateur-built aircraft. He was expected to return to the airport but did not arrive as planned.
Douglas was the only person aboard the single-engine fixed-wing experimental aircraft, which has a light blue fuselage with yellow accent striping along its side and “FOFZ” on the tail.
A media advisory issued on behalf of Douglas’s family on Saturday said he was believed to be somewhere in the vicinity of Scugog or the Kawartha Lakes, including Balsam Lake, Sturgeon Lake, or Cameron Lake.
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton subsequently coordinated an aerial grid search east of Orillia in the vicinity of Balsam Lake, between Lake Simcoe and Bobcaygeon. Fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters participated in the search.
