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From the "InfoCanadi>n" magazine. Issue dated January 12, 1989 |
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Cy Dunbar, captain B-737, Halifax, (left) has the rare opportunity to travel back in time. As a captain on the recently restored Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Lancaster he flies one of two remaining airworthy Lancasters in the world. This is the exact aircraft on which Dunbar made his last Lancaster flight on July 10, 1963. Dunbar has over 2,500 hours on Lancasters, including 450 on this aircraft. Standing to the right of Dunbar is former crew member Don Reynolds during a visit to London, Ontario. |
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Issue dated March 30, 1989 |
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In what was described by a spokesman for the Johnson Family Foundation in St. John's, Nfld. as a thoughtful gesture, Canadian Airlines provided free tickets for 4,000 teddy bears who travelled from Toronto to St. John's, where they were put up for adoption at the Janeway Children's Hospital. Under the 'Cuddle Friend Program' a teddy bear is given to each child patient to keep upon completion of five nights at the hospital. |
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Larry Milberry has put together a progressive blog on aviation subjects and can be followed on the web site 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 etal. |
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A history of some B-727 aircraft. Last airline to operate the B-727 on scheduled routes in Canada was Ottawa-based First Air. Here are a couple of views of First Air's "combi" C-FRST c/n 19169 at Iqaluit (YFB) on August 12 and 15, 1992. A B-727-90C, C-FRST was originally delivered to Alaska Airlines on October 27, 1966, from where First Air acquired it on December 31, 1985. It left service in 2000. |
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During its 'orange' era, CPA operated four B-727-117's (1971-77) and two B-727-217's (1975-80). CF-CUS (c/n 20513 - fin #724) was sold to National Aircraft Leasing of Los Angeles as N117TA on May 24, 1977 and later served Mexicana as XA-GUV and Servicios Aéreos Nacionales S.A. (in Ecuador) as HC-BIB. It was broken up in Miami in 1998. It's seen below on approach at Toronto on March 6, 1972. |
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CP Air B-727 CF-CPK in the background at Toronto on March 16, 1973. Having served CP Air from 1970 to 1977, CF-CPK (c/n 20328, fin #722) was sold to National Aircraft Leasing of Los Angeles on June 6, 1977 and migrated to Mexico as XA-GUU, Ecuador as HC-BIC and the UK with Dan Air as G-BKCG. It made its final landing with TAME Ecuador as HC-BLV. |
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Canadian Pacific Airlines inaugural DC-6B service arrival at Auckland, New Zealand. Credit: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs, Ref: WA-32938 - F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. |
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