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The three aircraft were:
World Airways ceased operations in March 2014. All three aircraft were purchased and stored for parts. Click the registration to view the lifecycle & fate of each.
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Photo courtesy of Tibor Mester
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Frequent photograph contributor, Caz Caswell, sent in his memories of fellow photo enthusiast Mike Ody,
Mike was a dear friend who has been sadly missed. Through our love of aircraft, we chatted often, and Mike would often stop by my desk at Wardair and Field Aviation.
When I returned to England in 2001 for a few years, we kept in touch by email. We occasionally went back to Brampton for our holidays, always making a point to meet up with him at Tim Hortons when possible.
The last photo I took of Mike is shown below. I tried to set up a meeting again for 2011, but I never got a reply, after several attempts. I sadly, never found out until 2012 that he had passed away.
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By the way,
I used to do cartoons for the Airport News at YYZ. Attached is a sample.
Cheers,
Caz Editors' Note: Bob and Wayne had worked at YYZ and have fond memories of the Airport News and Caz's cartoons.
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 Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.
Project North Star is the Canada Aviation and Space Museum’s volunteer program to assist in the restoration of the only surviving example of the military Canadair C54-GM (North Star).
This North Star (Registration # 17515) was built in 1948 for the Royal Canadian Air Force. North Stars constituted the backbone of the RCAF military long range transport capability for almost twenty years until the mid 1960's.
Every workday you will find a dedicated team of enthusiastic and friendly volunteers who, working with Museum conservation experts, are making great progress restoring this aircraft.
Visit www.projectnorthstar.ca for more info.
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From the NetLetter archives –
This is what we did on March 30, 1946.
The first all-express Trans-Atlantic load in Canadian commercial aviation history ever to leave Canada for the United Kingdom, indeed, for any portion of the Old World. The aircraft was an Avro Lancaster, registration, CF-CMT with the crew of Radio Officer Bill Tritter, Navigation Officer Pat Ray, First Officer Henry Tilson and Captain Roger Smith.
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In 2002, Bill Norberg sent us this DC-9 story –
Another experience with DC-9's came to mind. As you may remember when we first operated the DC-9's, the JT8D engines were infamous for the dirty black streak of exhaust they left behind on take-off. This led to an anti-smoke modification that considerably reduced the exhaust problem,...at least the colour. When I was Director of the Winnipeg Maintenance Base in the late 60's, Bill Ramage was on a visit to the base. We were heading out to lunch when I saw a DC-9 taking off on the south east runway that headed right over the River Heights residential area. I noticed only one black streak behind the aircraft and while it was at the usual rotation angle, it was not gaining altitude as one would expect and appeared to be sinking. I immediately thought we could be facing a serious incident and we headed for the terminal immediately and Flight Ops.
I assumed that it was experiencing an inflight engine failure but was somewhat relieved to find out that it was a training flight simulating a one engine out condition. I didn't think it should be doing that over built up residential areas however; Flight Ops agreed. Regards Bill Norberg
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The story of a DC-3 - Subject: CF-TDM
Originally built as a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, registration 42-92227, and delivered to the U.S. Army Air Force on October 25, 1943, but allocated to the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Dakota Mk. III FL595. On December 22, 1943, it was assigned to No.32 Operational Training Unit at Patricia Bay, British Columbia (now Victoria Airport).
It was struck off charge on December 5, 1945, being surplus to requirements. On January 26, 1946, it went to Trans-Canada Air Lines as CF-TDM, Fleet No.60, later 260.
It served TCA until 1962, when it was sold as N9124R to Remmert-Werner, Lambert Field, St. Louis, Missouri, which for many years was involved in DC-3 conversions and modifications.
It was sold to Delta Aircraft & Engineering and, on July 5, 1962 it went to Ozark Air Lines being re-registered N165J. On August 4, 1966, it was traded to Fairchild-Hiller when Ozark re-equipped with the FH.227 transport.
Finally registered as N123DZ and owned by South Florida Leasing, it was scrapped February 4, 1995. Click here to view in Ozark livery.
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