It was leased to Transair in March 1963 and returned to Air Canada in January 1971 and stored at Winnipeg until 1973 when it was sold to the first of several U.S. owners. After several years stored in Tucson, Arizona It was donated to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson in 1991 where it remains today. The Canadian aviation fraternity should get together and bring this famous aircraft back home, where it belongs in TCA livery as CF-TGI. Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the PAM closed to the general public in March 2020 but has now reopened. Source: vickersviscount.net |
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Photo courtesy of Tim Martin Taken at Winnipeg - September 1970 |
In June 1991, our own Canadian Cargo staff at Hong Kong replaced a former contract operator. |
Front row, from left: Raymond Lai, Simon Chan, Francis Law (standing) and Dennis Tse. Back row, from left: John Gibson, Terry Wong, Roy Yip, David Chin, Taley Cheung, Salome Yeung, Al Ridgway, Jacob Wong, Tommy Yu, Samuel Lee, Alfred Chui and Daniel Ngan. |
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TSSC Network Complete The opening of the Vancouver Telephone Sales and Service Centre (TSSC) in April 1991 made our network of four TSSCs complete. Along with Dorval (YUL), Toronto (YYZ) and Calgary (YYC), Canadian Air Cargo customers across Canada are getting speedy and efficient telephone responses. From the left: Doug Thomson, Hope-Ann Weidman, Fred Whiting, Ian McLafferty, David Knight, Murray Armstrong, Ken Mok, Gillian Brough and Patrick Cheung. Missing from photo: Shirley Cherry, Heather Johannson, John Lynch and Geoff Packham. |
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