Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter
Since 1995 Saturday, December 14, 2024
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CP Air News - December 1979 |
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Dear Welcome to The NetLetter, established in 1995 as a dedicated newsletter for Air Canada retirees.
We have evolved into the longest running aviation-based newsletter for Air Canada, TCA, CP Air, Canadian Airlines and all other Canadian-based airlines that once graced the skies. The NetLetter is self-funded and is always free to subscribers. It is operated by a group of volunteers and is not affiliated with any airline or associated organizations. The NetLetter is published on the second and fourth weekend of each month. If you are interested in Canadian aviation history, and vintage aviation photos, especially as it relates to Trans-Canada Air Lines, Air Canada, Canadian Airlines International and their constituent airlines, then we're sure you'll enjoy this newsletter. Please note: We do our best to identify and credit the original source of all content presented. However, should you recognize your material and are not credited; please advise us so that we can correct our oversight. Our website is located at www.thenetletter.net Please click the links below to visit our archives and for more info about The NetLetter. |
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From The NetLetter team:
Terry Baker, Wayne Albertson, Ken Pickford & Bob Sheppard
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 We have welcomed 112 new subscribers in 2024.
We wish to thank everyone for the continuing support of our efforts.
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 Back issues of The NetLetter are available in both the original newsletter format and downloadable PDF format.
Restoration and posting of archive issues is an ongoing project. We hope to post every issue back to the beginning in 1995.
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We always welcome feedback about Air Canada (including Jazz and Rouge) from our subscribers who wish to share current events, memories and photographs.
Particularly if you have stories to share from one of the legacy airlines: Trans-Canada Air Lines, Canadian Airlines, CP Air, Pacific Western, Maritime Central Airways, Eastern Provincial, Wardair, Nordair, Transair, Air BC, Time Air, Quebecair, Calm Air, NWT Air, Air Alliance, Air Nova, Air Ontario, Air Georgian and all other Canadian based airlines that once graced the Canadian skies.
We will try to post your comments in the next issue but, if not, we will publish it as soon as we can.
Thanks!
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Submitted by Tony Connolly -
The article about the Hercules operated by First Air fails to mention that C-GHPW was not always owned by First Air. It was first owned by Pacific Western Airlines.
It was operated by PWA for a number of years both in the Arctic and around the world as were all of PWA's fleet of Hercs. Pacific Western operated various Hercules from 1967 till C-GHPW was sold off in 1984.
I flew this aircraft as well as several others operated by PWA. The Herc was a wonderful plane and I felt privileged to have flown these civilian aircraft.
Editors' Note: See NetLetter #1523 from December 9, 2023 for our story on the PWA Hercules fleet.
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Submitter name withheld by request -
Canadian Airlines International - Passenger / Ramp Staff - Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador - Christmas 1993.
An evening of good food and good cheer in celebration of the holiday season enjoyed by all. Deer Lake was one of the airline’s last locations in Eastern Canada having both dedicated Passenger and Ramp Services Personnel.
In the months following the company transferred this Base of Operation to Air Atlantic. While the majority of employees elected to remain in the Deer Lake/Corner Brook region of the province there were a few exceptions who are identified in the photo below.
Bottom centre, left to right:, Mike Green and Paula Ball - both relocated with Canadian Airlines to Halifax, as did Mike Ryan, Base Manager YYT/YDF bottom centre, following the transfer of the airline's St. John’s Operations to Air Atlantic - October ‘95.
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Submitted by Stan Wereschuk, Leduc, Alberta
I joined PWA In October 1984. My hot air ballooning career started when I purchased my first hot air balloon from Cameron Balloons, Bristol, England in 1974.
I have participated in this sport in Canada, USA, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. I am also a Gas Balloonist having flown in Hydrogen Balloons in Germany and many Helium Gas Balloons flights in United States.
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One more photograph from one of my Helium Gas Balloon Flights from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Stan Wereschuk.
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From the 'Horizons' magazine
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Issue dated October 1985
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Concorde steals the show.
A British Airways Concorde was the centre of attention at Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ) during September 1985.
After arriving from London Heathrow (LHR) as a scheduled flight, Concorde carried a full charter load from Toronto to the North Pole and back in just under three hours. "I believe the fare was $900.00," said Steve Polak, Lead Station Attendant.
Returning to Pearson, the airplane was refuelled for its participation in the Toronto and Cleveland airshows. Some 20 VIPs and airport staff members were taken along for the ride to the airshows on trips they will not soon forget. Station Attendant Marty Connell was one of the passengers who got a thrill of a lifetime flight.
The following day the Concorde returned to London Heathrow (LHR) with a full passenger load. While the aircraft was in Toronto, British Airways allowed Air Canada people to inspect it and generally have a good look at the sleek bird.
In the photo, Lead Station Attendant Rob Urquhart dispatches Concorde for its appearances at the Toronto and Cleveland airshows.
Photo by Steve Polak.
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Young women discover the world of global aviation at Air Canada.
November 7, 2024 was an exciting day at the Air Canada headquarters as we welcomed young women to our Montreal base to discover the world of global aviation.
An annual event in the autumn, we hold an open house to female students and young women aged 15 years old and older to meet with professionals from the company to explore the exciting, multi-disciplinary career options in aviation.
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Air Canada to reintroduce retired B-767s to passenger ops.
Air Canada is slated to resume Boeing 767-300 operations as early as February 2025. The carrier recently announced plans to take two 767s out of retirement, returning them to passenger service.
According to Ishrion Aviation, the airline will initially deploy the jet to five destinations from its Toronto hub. The aircraft begins flights to Las Vegas on February 1, 2025.
Starting on February 15, 2025, the B-767s will fly to Edmonton and Calgary. Later, the aircraft will fly to Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Phoenix starting in March. Flights to Phoenix are currently planned for March 14, 16 and 23.
The two aircraft are registered as C-FOCA and C-GLCA. Both jets – which are around 30 years old – had been in storage at Pinal Airpark in Arizona until they were ferried to John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport earlier this year.
Air Canada leadership called the move “temporary insurance” in the airline’s short-term fleet plan. “These are two older B-767s that used to be part of our passenger mainline fleet,” said Mark Galardo, Air Canada’s executive vice president of revenue and network planning, during a third-quarter earnings call.
The carrier also added the B-767 back to its website’s fleet page. Each aircraft can accommodate up to 211 passengers with 24 lie-flat business class seats and 187 in economy.
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Here is a look at the Christmas menu served on board Trans-Canada Air Lines circa 1957.
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Found in 'Horizons' magazine
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Issue dated December 1982
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Greetings from the children.
Long before Santa was due on his appointed rounds, the children of employees put their imaginations and artistic talents to work and produced nearly 300 entries for each year's Christmas card contest. Here are the winner and a few of the runner up entries.
Stephanie Bennett, age 7, daughter of Maryse Peloquin, Passenger Agent, Toronto submitted the winning design (below) and it appeared on President Claude Taylor's Christmas card for 1982.
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Marie Lemay - age 15 - Montreal
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Tara Hunter - age 15 - Toronto |
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Jennifer Coles - age 6 - Sudbury
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Patrick Maloney - age 11 - Winnipeg |
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Issue dated December 1983
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Gregory Mason, age 9, son of Captain Doug Mason of Vancouver submitted President Taylor's Christmas card design for 1983.
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Amy Cameron - age 6 - Toronto
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Carreen Maloney - age 14 - Winnipeg |
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Christine Bowes - age 14 - Montreal
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Shawn Dudar - age 12 - Winnipeg |
Left: Theresa Wachal - age 5 Winnipeg
Once again, the children of Air Canada employees came through with flying colours in the Christmas card contest.
Some 300 entries challenged the judges in making their selections.
The panel judges were: Marie Noel Lasserre, La Guilde Graphique, Montreal; Gentile Tondino, McGill University and Therese Dion, The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, and art consultant to the company.
Editors' Note: Does anyone know if any of these children entered into a career in aviation?
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Issue dated September 1985
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Lise St-Germain reporting.
A taste of Tinsel town.
During the filming of the movie "Hold Up", starring French star Jean-Paul Belmondo, a number of scenes were shot at Mirabel Airport.
Air Canada's Public Affairs office was contacted first to handle transportation for the actors and secondly, to find a few employees — Pilots, Flight Attendants and Customer Sales & Service Agents — to lake part, just to add a touch of authenticity and local colour!
The participants quickly realized that there's more to an actor's life than the glint and glitter: On the first morning, they arrived at the airport at 7:30 am and left only after six in the evening. They soon found out that for every five minutes of filming, there were often hours of waiting in between.
The experience was nevertheless rewarding since in addition to the interest in watching the filming of one or more scenes from so close at hand, there was also an opportunity to hobnob with the actors, who were all very pleasant. And now there is the anticipation of being able to see themselves on the 'big screen' in October.
The big stars took a few moments from their busy filming schedule to gather for this picture.
Kneeling in the front, Lise St-Germain, Public Affairs on the left and Gabrielle Mattern, Flight Attendant.
First row, from left to right: Sonia Fallu, Customer Sales & Service Agent; Andrée Gouin, Flight Attendant; Mimi Misner, Customer Sales & Service Agent; Jean-Paul Belmondo and his dog Maja; Linda Dorval and Jocelyne Lalonde, Flight Attendants; Luc Deslauriers, Second Officer.
Back row in the same order: Jim Rowan, First Officer; Odette Jetté, Jerry Chalifoux, Louis Trudel, Frida Landry and Alain Bonnami, Customer Sales & Service Agents and Michel Therrien, Second Officer.
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Issue dated October 1985
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 During 1985, President Pierre Jeanniot visited Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth to meet employees, travel and tourist representatives along with government and business leaders.
Here we have the staff at Chicago, from the left: Stan Gorak, Margo Rodriguez, Pierre Jeanniot and Tony Velasquez.
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And shown during the Dallas/Fort Worth visit are, from the left: George Mullener, Jeanne Evans, Pierre Jeanniot, Judy Stephens, Linda Price, Stan Heller, Denise Hammons, Wally Heckman, Bob Perreault and
Frank Pesce, seated.
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CP Air / Canadi>n People Gallery |
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From the "Canadi>n AirCargo" report 1991.
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TSSC network complete.
The opening of the Vancouver Telephone Sales and Service Centre (TSSC) in April 1991 made our network of four TSSCs complete. Along with YUL, YYZ and YYC, Canadian Air Cargo customers across Canada are getting speedy and efficient telephone responses.
From left: Doug Thomson, Hope-Ann Weidman, Fred Whiting, Ian McLafferty, David Knight, Murray Armstrong, Ken Mok, Gillian Brough and Patrick Cheung.
Missing: Shirley Cherry, Heather Johannson, John Lynch and Geoff Packham.
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Calgary employees celebrate the annual Service Quality Award.
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From 'Canadi>n Flyer' magazine
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Issue dated June 1998
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Greetings from BKK.
The entire team from our Bangkok operations gathered at Country Manager Doreen Hazell's home.
Employee groups represented included Maintenance, Sales and Reservations, Cargo and Messenger.
Here's our fun-loving Airport staff: Chockchai Deepermpornying, Narvebol Kitviriya, Wisuttichom Khruawan, Chidkhwan Puttong, Nuanloar Trakarnpairoj, Kannipa Eksakul, Wachiyalak Teeupama, Kriengsak Warunnsin, Usawadee Sangpum, Prateep Inlert and Thammanoon Arampongun.
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Videographer 'eye trapper' recently posted this video of Everts Air Cargo Douglas DC-6 (registration N9056R) departing Boundary Bay Airport in Delta, British Columbia, a general aviation airport about 25 km south of Vancouver.
We had a feature story on this aircraft in NL #1539 this past August. It was originally delivered as a DC-6A, the passenger/cargo convertible version of the all-passenger DC-6B, to Canadian Pacific Air Lines in July 1958 (registration CF-CZZ) and later flew for Wardair (1962), Pacific Western Airlines (1969) and NWT Air (1971) before leaving Canada in 1979. It returned to Canada and was converted to a firebomber for Conair Aviation (registration C-FCZZ) in May 1988.
It was acquired by Everts Air Cargo converted back to cargo configuration and registered as N9056R in August 2000.
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Pierre Gillard shares this information -
Future terminal being built for Porter Airlines at Saint Hubert, Quebec, October 5, 2024.
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Porter Airlines is developing a hub at Saint Hubert (YHU). So, many Canadian cities will be at a 10 minute drive from home! The name is now Montreal Metropolitan Airport.
Here we have a photo of C-GKQZ Embraer ERJ195-E2 (ERJ-190-400) MSN 19020100, Porter Airlines - Victoria, BC - CYYJ - 02-06-2024.
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Many Happy Returns
Once again I will ask for your patience while I indulge myself. I like to tell anyone willing to listen that I receive far more satisfaction for what I do as a volunteer than anything I have ever been paid for.
I have been involved with a senior's activity centre in White Rock, British Columbia since before I retired in 2016. I am the treasurer for four different committees as well as a presenter at their Computer Club.
I also play Cribbage and Euchre at local branches of the Royal Canadian Legion a few times a week and send out newsletters on behalf of those groups.
And then, of course, there is The NetLetter. Our team puts in several hours into creating each edition. The feedback and contributions that we receive from readers and the connection with you is extremely rewarding. Thanks to everyone for your continued support of our efforts. Happy Holidays!
Photo below is from a 'Mistletoe Luncheon' at the senior centre.
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| Terry's Trivia
& Travel Tips |
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Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.
Visit from a behemoth: Winnipeggers witness massive cargo plane touchdown.
On November 16, 2024, the Ukrainian owned Antonov AN-124 touched down at Winnipeg to enable the crew to rest for a day before proceeding to San Francisco.
On Friday, November 15, 2024 the An-124 flew from Italy to Ireland. The next day it went from Ireland to Goose Bay, Newfoundland to Winnipeg. Cargo wasn’t loaded or unloaded during the brief Winnipeg visit.
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'Horizons' magazine issue December 1982 by WeRno
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Found on Reddit
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Wayne, Ken & Terry Richmond, British Columbia - December 2019
(Bob Sheppard was not available for the photograph) |
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Wayne, Bob & Ken Richmond, British Columbia - December 2023
(Terry Baker was not available for the photograph) |
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We wish to honour the memories of
Vesta Stevenson and Alan Rust. They remain a part of every edition published. |
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