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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

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From the "INFO:CARGO" magazine.

Issue dated March / April 1994

Cargo Booth a winner.

The Canadian Air Cargo booth at the Canadian Industrial Transportation League 'TRANSPO '94' show held in March, 1994 was an award of excellence winner. Congratulations to those who made our booth one of the best!

Pictured left to right are: Doug Orvis, YYZ Sales; Debbie Iversen, YYC Marketing; Tony Herben, YYZ Training; Darlene Caine, YYZ - T.S.S.C; Doug Burek, YYZ Training and Norm Kearns, YYZ Training.

Not shown are Suzanne Weller, YYZ Sales; Russ Worgan, YYZ Sales; Bruce Shone YYZ - T.S.S.C. and Doug McQuaid YYZ Sales.

cpa cargo booth

Issue dated January / February 1994

It was a natural choice for Lotus Cars in Vancouver to select Kuehne and Nagel to airfreight four new Lotus Esprits to their Canadian customers.

The vehicles are seen here being loaded aboard a Canadian Airlines B-747-400 at Cardiff Airport, UK.

This aircraft had previously flown into the UK with a full cargo load to have its livery painted before undergoing its 'D' checks at Cardiff Airport, and departing for Vancouver with another full cargo load.


Issue dated October 1969

Service to Orient marks 20th birthday

CP Air marked 20 years of service to the Orient September 19, 1969 when flight 401 departed for Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Aboard the anniversary flight, piloted by Captain Mel Lee, was Miss CP Air 20, Shesh Wallace, bearing letters of greeting from Vancouver's mayor to the Governor of Tokyo and other dignitaries.

Fluently bilingual in English and Japanese, Miss Wallace was chosen to symbolize two decades of accord between Canada and Japan.

Captain Lee, who piloted the DC-8-63 Spacemaster 'Empress of Honolulu' on the historic flight, is a CP Air veteran of 27 years. He was one of the original pilots trained for the Orient run and has logged some 22,000 air hours.

The first Canada-Orient flight, with a Canadair Four aircraft travelled the 6,670 miles to Tokyo and Hong Kong in 30 hours via Anchorage and Shemya. Today the same flight takes 14 hours with no stops between Vancouver and Tokyo. 


Below is a photograph of the CPA crew who flew aboard CF-TEP (Canadair Four) on the South Pacific survey flight which left Vancouver on April 19, 1949. 

Extracted from The Canadair North Star by Larry Milberry (via Archie Vanhee)

From the left are: Captain J.K. Potter, Captain C. North Sawle, Captain Louis C. Stevenson, Captain M.D. Lee, Captain George W. Knox, Captain Len Fraser, Navigator P.D. Roy, Captain Robert Goldie, Captain Archie Vanhee and Navigator Frederick Wicker

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