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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

Vic Bentley has sent us these photos -

I am a volunteer at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, British Columbia. Visitors come by the office and drop off a box of books, photos, logbooks, tools etc.

Some of the photos (prints and colour slides) are of old aircraft that most people cannot identify. So the detective work starts. What is the aircraft, who owned it, what is the location?

Unfortunately, sometimes the person leaves before contact information is gathered and we have no way of tracing the story behind the photos.

If you have access to old photos or documents that are going out of the family, please consider donating them to your local museum/archives/historical society.

They all have a story to tell! Here is a sample of some recent arrivals at the museum.


This is CF-AZY, a Lockheed 10A in the colours of Canadian Airways. The company operated 2 of these on Vancouver-Seattle in 1936 until passed on to Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA).
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This is the same aircraft, now in TCA colours. It went to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1939.
cf azy 2

And who are these maintenance people? Apparently the same TCA location as above. 
cf azy 3

Here's most of the same group. Who are they? When did they work here?

Is your father/uncle/grandpa here? Do tell.

cf azy 4

Editors' Note: Our records indicate that this was the second aircraft received by TCA on September 1, 1937. The Lockheed 10A Electra was assigned fin # 21. It was sold to the Department of National Defence on October 14, 1939.

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