Worldways Canada Boeing 727 - C-GWGT
It's always fun to look into the lifecycle of an aircraft, especially if there is a bit of a challenge and some reader participation involved. In NetLetter #1553, David Hykle mentioned a B-727 that was parked outside the Air Canada Winnipeg hangar for a time in the 1990s.
Dave thought that it may have been an ex-Wardair aircraft but we were quite sure that was not the case. We asked our readers for some help in identifying this particular aircraft.
Alan Mulholland responded in NetLetter #1554, advising us that it was actually a Worldways aircraft but did not recall the registration or fin number. Air Canada had completed a 'D' check on the aircraft around the time that Worldways ceased operations and the aircraft was being held by Air Canada.
As mentioned in our 'Subscriber Feedback' section above, Robert Arnold not only identified the aircraft (C-GWGT) but supplied a photo taken at the time it was impounded at YWG.
Digging into its history, I found that it was built in 1967 (line #398) and delivered to TAP Air Portugal. It saw service with TAP's charter subsidiary, Air Atlantis, until returned to the mainline fleet in 1987.
It was acquired by Worldways in 1989 and appears to have remained there until impounded in 1991. In 1993, it was acquired by Express One, converted to a freighter, and operated by Roadway Global Air ( Click Here for photo). It appears to have briefly returned to Canada under registration C-FACW and operated by 'All Canada Express' of Mississauga, Ontario during 1998.
It was deregistered in August 2001 and unconfirmed to be stored at Lockbourne Army Airfield at Columbus, Ohio.
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