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Issue dated April 1985
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Six-week pregnancy yields a big baby
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It’s hard to believe, but it takes only about six weeks to assemble a new B-737-300, “from the first nuts and bolts until it's flying.”
Such is the efficiency of the Boeing production line. “After you've built 1,200 of an aircraft type you get it down to an art," a Boeing spokesman explained.
These photos of CP Air’s first 737-300 were taken in February and March. Although it takes only six weeks to physically assemble one, the required lead time for an airline to get a place on the production line in order to acquire one is 13 to 14 months.
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A row of tubes on the Boeing production line...
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... begins to take shape as a fleet of airplanes.
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First of the B-737-300s goes into service
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CP Air became Canada's first B- 737-300 operator on April 12, 1985 when it formally took delivery of the 'Empress of Ontario' registration C-FCPG (fin #751).
George Dyer (centre), CP Air’s director, contracts, formally takes delivery of the company’s first B-737-300 at Seattle’s Boeing Field. At left is Roy Peterson, regional director, Boeing; and at right, Lowell Houtchens, director, Canada sales, Boeing.
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 CP Air Operations Centre at Vancouver International airport (YVR) circa late 1960's. |
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Dated April 2 1980 - A Nordair crew posing on the tarmac: S/O Charlebois, flight attendants Grenier and Hatrick, Captain Red Martindale, flight attendants Rose, Cousineau, Dobsceck and Fish.
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