Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.
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The final list of tails
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Answer to the tails in NetLetter #1540
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![]() Between 2000 and 2020 its main business was its operation as Air Canada Express. Ceasing operations in May 29, 2020, after a sale of its assets to Pivot Airlines
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Our photos show C-GWGA in Air Georgian colours.
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and the same aircraft C-GWGA in Canadian Airlines colours.
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Photo by Konstantin von Wedelstaedt
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C-GWGA is currently operated by Sky Jet and flying for Air Liaison.
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Sky Jet Aviation, aka Air Liaison founded in August 2007 and based in Quebec City.
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C-GMGA in Air Canada Alliance colours.
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Air Alliance was a Canadian regional airline based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, which was operational from its formation in 1987 until 1999, when it was absorbed into Air Nova.
The brand name Alliance was then used by Air Canada until 2011 to refer to its eastern Tier III operation operated by Air Georgian.
Sources: Wikipedia and Pierre Gallant
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The RAPCAN News October 12, 1999
The bird strike stories reminded me of an incident that happened to my brother in Vancouver enroute to Victoria in a Viscount. They realized they'd hit bird on landing and asked if they could go out with the DOT truck to retrieve and identify the corpse. It turned out to be a nice fat pheasant which had flown up and hit its head on the underside of the wing thus killing itself. The bird, except for a major head wound was otherwise in perfect condition.
With the approval of the DOT, the aircraft which had sustained no damage and crew proceeded to Victoria with the offending carcass and had the chef at the layover hotel prepare it for their dinner.
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Montréal–Mirabel International Airport (YMX) originally called Montréal International Airport, widely known as Mirabel and branded as YMX International Aerocity of Mirabel, is a cargo and former international passenger airport in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi) northwest of Montreal.
The main role of the airport today is cargo flights, but it is also home to MEDEVAC and general aviation and is a manufacturing base for Airbus Canada, where final assembly of the Airbus A220 (formerly Bombardier CSeries) regional jetliners until early 2021 when the last CRJ was produced. The CRJ business was sold to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The former passenger terminal apron is now a racing course, and the terminal building was demolished in 2016.
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An end to Mirabel's (YMX) losing streak.
You’ve got to feel for the town of Mirabel. First the Mirabel International Airport turns out to be a white elephant. Then, during the mid-2000's, projects so outrageous they should have been immediately recognized as unfeasible were announced for the Mirabel area, about 40 kilometres north of Montreal.
Thankfully for Mirabel, those plans to turn the old airport terminal into a type of theme park were abandoned years ago. So was the old Lac Mirabel project, off Highway’s exit 28, which would have invested $425 million project into a tourist and commercial complex, complete with a giant aquarium. With U.S.-based Simon Property Group and its Canadian partners, now pledging to create an 80-store outlet centre on part of the old Lac Mirabel site, it would be fun to revisit some of those ‘what could have beens.’
Remember Reveport, or Aerodream? News reports from 2006 said French investors were planning to invest $100 million to turn Mirabel airport into a year-round “recreational multiplex” complete with a “beach, spa, fitness centre, conventional and high-tech theatres, discos, arcades, museum, exhibition hall, TV studio, shops, and restaurants.” Oh and let’s not forget the “giant aquarium, complete with acrylic tunnel that people could walk through to see the fish.” The project would be viable with 800,000 visitors a year, reporters were told. In the end there were none.
AeroDream followed Lac Mirabel, a similar scheme announced in 2005 for 330,000 square feet of mini-lakes, a 140,000-square-foot aquarium with 20,000 different species, a nearly 100,500-square-foot spa, a 70,000- square-foot indoor city for children, a 500,000-square-foot sports complex and a 3,000-seat auditorium. Straight-faced developers insisted that there would be no overlap between the two projects.
Source: The Montreal Gazette - May 22, 2012
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