Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

 

In our  'Subscriber Feedback' section, David Hykle mentions a B-727 briefly owned by the Vancouver Canucks Hockey Club. Its Canadian registration was 'C-GVCH' (Vancouver Canucks Hockey?). 

 

Boeing serial #18853, line #189 was originally delivered to United Airlines in October 1965 under registration N7046U. Rzjets.net shows the aircraft was acquired by Allegheny Airlines (later USAir) in October 1978. 

 

It was bought by Vancouver Canucks Enterprises in October 1983 and remained with the team until March 1985 when it was acquired by Avensa of Venezuela. It was withdrawn from service in March 1993 and broken up.

The Canucks also used an Orca Bay Boeing 727-200 in the mid-1990s. By the mid 2000s, the Canucks contracted an A319 in the Air Canada Jetz fleet. I remember it quite well because it frequently overnighted in YVR during hockey season.

 

N7046N at New York - LaGuardia
August 1989

 

Photo courtesy of Paul Seymour

 

 

C-GVCH still in USAir colours

Vancouver 1983

With CP Air B-747-200 C-FCRE, Fin # 744, on right

 

Photo courtesy of Gary Vincent

Remember when!

 

All Airline employees and their families are eligible for year-round reduced rates at the Waikikian Hotel in Honolulu.

Special low-season rates from September 1 to January 14 begin at $8.50 single, $11.50 twin, $13.50 triple and $19.50 for a family of four. 

 

 

Issues dated January and May 1968

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manufactured in 1937, this Lockheed L-10A Electra was the first new aircraft purchased by Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA).

 

Transferred to the RCAF in 1939, it was then used as a transport plane for six years, with a brief interruption in 1941 when it was loaned back to TCA for six months.

 

From 1946 to 1962 it was owned by a number of individuals and companies, both in Canada and the United States.

 

The much travelled and colourful veteran returned to Air Canada last month before retiring finally to a place of honour among memorabilia of Canadian aviation. The company's first new aircraft, CF-TCA, the silver Lockheed that since followed Amelia Earhart into aviation history, has made its next-to-last flight.

 

Now at the Dorval Base for refurbishing, from there it will be presented to the National Museum of Science and Technology for permanent display at the Aviation Museum at Ottawa's Uplands airport.

 

 

A milestone in aviation history is back in the public eye for the first time: Lufthansa Technik has completed the extensive assembly of a Lockheed L-1649A.

 

This aircraft type was the flagship of the Lufthansa fleet at the end of the 1950s under the name Super Star. On Friday, January 17, the fully restored long-haul aircraft was rolled out of the hangar on its own landing gear for the first time in Hamburg - a moment that not only thrilled aviation enthusiasts.

 

Source: newsroom.lufthansagroup.com

 

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Island Express Air was a small Canadian airline based in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Its first flight was on August 7, 2009, as part of the Abbotsford International Airshow.

 

It operated scheduled air service between the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, as well as charter flights and cargo service. On February 23, 2018, Transport Canada suspended Island Express' air operator's certificate (AOC). The operating certificate was reinstated on June 26, 2018.

 

The company slogan was “Your Island Connection”. In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Island Express Air ceased operations and sold its assets to a group of investors.

 

Source: wikipedia.org

 

 

C-GMDL - PA-31 Island Express Air
August 12, 2013

 

Photo by Bill Kingsland

 

 

Editors' Note: The following article incorrectly identifies Trans-Canada Air Lines as 'Trans Canada Airways'. We chose publish this excerpt from article in its original form. The full article is available from the links.

 

March 20, 2013 by Tom in Transportation.

 

I went searching through old newspaper archives online, looking for something quite different than what I found. I wanted to find travel ads from the 1960s or 1970s to see how far the industry has come.

What I found was a pretty cool advertisement in the Winnipeg Tribune from November 1, 1939 that was sort of indirectly related to travel. The Tribune is a defunct paper from the Manitoba capital that has just 1939 to 1945 online.

What’s even more amazing is the power of the internet. This picture literally tells a story of history that could easily approach the 1,000 words each picture is said to be worth. Simply by plugging in the registration number on the airplane in the advertisement, with Google and the rest of the internet, there is so much information to be found.

First off, Trans-Canada Airways (actually Trans-Canada Air Lines, aka TCA) had it’s first flight on September 1, 1937 from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seattle, Washington. The airline was the first national carrier in Canada and the Canadian National Railway was the major backer. TCA was the precursor to the modern day Air Canada with the name officially changing in 1965. 

 

Source:
www.itsabouttravelling.com/trans-canada-airways (significant advertising)