Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Found in 'Horizons' magazine

The Air Canada Flying Pirates hockey team of Vancouver traveled to Belfast. Northern Ireland to play in a two-game fundraising event.

The hockey game against the Castlereagh Select raised over $4,000 for the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Foundation.

The Air Canada team also visited the Cancer Ward of the Ulster Hospital and gave gifts to the sick children to help brighten their day.

Left to right, back row: Murphy Johnson, Jack Davidson, coach Claudio Feruga, Mike Bradley, Hugh Tait, Brian Yamanaka, Ziggy Zippel and Dann Ball.

Front row: Bruce Geortzen, Corey Williams, Dan Dubuk, Paul Newmal (United), and Ken Woods (Delta).

Air Canada celebrates 50 years of flight to Bermuda.

Staff, friends and associates of Air Canada in Bermuda celebrated this station's 50th anniversary in 1998. To mark this very special occasion, an afternoon tea was held in the main lobby of the Bermuda Aquarium and Zoo.

Pictured left to right: Customer Service Agents Karen Cabral, Tina Barnard, Floyd Smart, Matthew Ringer, Veronica DeSilva, Country Coordinator; Customer Service Agent Lynette Harris, Lamar Durrett, President and CEO, David Lambert, Customer Service Coordinator - Bermuda; Customer Service Agents Lucy Monkman, Carol Ramsay, Sally Walsh, Marc Rosenberg, Vice President, Sales & Product Distribution and Polly Ricketts, Customer Service Agent.

Glasgow -

Pictured left to right. are: Ian Dawson, Cargo Sales Service Coordinator, who reached 25 years in February 1998; Lamar Durrett, President & CEO and Willie Kerr, Commissary Catering Coordinator who reached 30 years of service in 1997.

Paris -

Pictured, left to right: Lise Marie Turpin, General Manager, Passenger Sales, France, Belgium, Spain; Laetitia Lesieur, Ticket Agent; Lamar Durrett, Geneviéve Brigout, Principal Coordinator and Roger Sarti, Ticket Agent.

Welcome to our new employees in Tel Aviv.

Effective with the 1998 summer schedule, we are introducing a new Montreal - Tel Aviv link.

Pictured here are some of the employees in Tel Aviv.

Top row, left to right: Neoni Stein, Ticketing; Sara Dar, Sales; Eilat Bahari and Ilana Mann, Reservations; Victoria Shuela, Airport Coordinator.

Lower row, left to right: Anita Asman, Accounts; Ester Kastiel, Secretary and Miki Dorn, Marketing; Sigal Bonano and Tzafi Horowitz, Reservations; Victoria Shuela, Airport Coordinator and Ruth Ben-Tzur, General Manager, Sales & Operations.

Six airplanes in one.

Adapted from the April 1998 issue of enRoute magazine.

Putting one logo onto an airplane is difficult enough, but six logos?

Workers at Air Canada painted an aircraft with the colours of all the Star Alliance carriers. Henry Freiss, the Manager responsible for this unique project, says that the most difficult part of the job was making sure the six logos looked right together, while adhering to the strict rules about how each emblem was presented.

For example, a white airplane is a white airplane, right? Wrong. Though five of the six airlines have a white fuselage, each uses a different shade of white.

After the aircraft was painted in Air Canada white, the logos were applied with decals. According to Daniel Lortie, Manager - Paint Program, in Toronto, the job took 10 days and 2,600 man-hours to complete. About 600 litres of paint was used.

The Air Canada employees responsible for painting the A340-300 aircraft with the colours of all the Star Alliance carriers include:

Front row, left to right: Harry Kalenbach, Deny Risi, Richard Parker, Ayoob Motala, Carran Singh, Paul Brennan and Dany Shea.

Back row: Rick Farrell, Ed Ruttan, Barry Parsons, Val Siles, Mike Bird, Donald Yusuf, Brian Butt and Ted McGruthers.

Larry Milberry has put together a blog named 'The Great Lockheed Twins' that can be followed @ canavbooks.wordpress.com.

We have, with permission from Larry, some of the photos and story of those aircraft which ended up at either Canadian Pacific Airlines or Trans-Canada Air Lines.

Excerpt from Larry's blog -

On June 29, 1960 we again were skulking around Malton. When checking out the wartime hangar line, the magnificent Massey Ferguson Lockheed Lodestar taxied in.

What a shot it made with that great background of afternoon cumulous cloud.

Ordered originally by LAN Chile, the Lodestar had been diverted as a C-57 to the USAAC, was delivered in April 1943, then loaned to CPA, where it became CF-CPJ.

In August 1944 it moved to TCA, becoming CF-TDG. In 1948 it was converted by Canadair for the Massey Harris farm implement company of Toronto, and later was upgraded to Learstar specs, e.g. with the long, slim nose.

Massey Harris soon became Massey Ferguson with a corporate fleet at Malton.

CF-TDG briefly was registered in the 1960s to Execaire of Dorval, then ended its days as an attraction in a Montreal children's park. Sadly, vandals spoiled CF-TDG's retirement when they set it on fire!

Editors' Note: CF-CPJ was registered to CPA during 1943.

CF-TDG, type 18-08A-200 delivered to TCA on August 18, 1944 assigned fin #54 and sold to Massey Harris on July 14, 1948 after 11,211 hours of service.

Source: Air Canada Pocket Guide by Frank Pooley and CPAL history by D.M.Bain.

Juan Carlos Martin posted this on June 27, 2021.

Saw photo from the Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) on the 'US Airlines Past Liveries and Aircraft' Facebook page.

Yves Hubert posted this comment -

There are a few documented events of deer impacts on the north runway at PIT. Too bad no one captured the moment we pulled up to the gate once in PIT with a deer wrapped around the nose wheel strut.

Gordon Walker added this memory -

I believe the aircraft was CF-NAB...two deer strikes within a very small period of time earned it the nickname "The Deer Hunter" amongst the YYZ Maintenance Crew.

Eric MacLean mentioned this -

CF-NAB weighed a ton more than on delivery from repairs added. Good story on it here "Nordair’s First Boeing 737 – A Jet for All Seasons"

Editors' note: Mr. Maclean is referring to 'Wayne's Wings' article from NetLetter #1351.

Paul Peron posted this photo and comment on July 25 -

This picture was sent to me by a long-time friend of Resolute Bay via her brother who was with PWA. But sadly it was taken way before my brief time there. I can't make out the cap badges.

The terminal was certainly a predecessor to the old building I worked in.

Posted by Andre Daemen on July 8 -

Mods done on Lockheed Electra CF-NDZ. News event late June 1988. Fond memories, chief pilot Dick Van Hasselt and myself showing off the new technology.

Only to have the ice patrol wrapped up shortly afterwards.

Canadian Airlines International worldwide timetable, city guide and services directory effective October 31, 1993 (excerpt of several pages).

Source:
airline-memorabilia.blogspot.com

Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.

Tailwind begins NYC-BOS seaplane operation. 

Seaplane operations are not a new idea for New York City. Small airlines have been utilizing the East 23rd Street Skyport since the 1930's.

What’s new, though, is having the option to take a seaplane flight from Manhattan directly to another major city rather than a weekend getaway destination like The Hamptons.

Tailwind Air will begin operating flights between Manhattan’s seaplane base and Boston starting August 3, 2021 offering what should be the fastest overall trip time between the two cities.

What Tailwind lacks in amenities and service is made up for by sheer speed.

Source:
runwaygirlnetwork.com/2021/07/30/tailwind-seaplane-nyc-boston