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November 1, 2024 - Air Canada unveils special Vince Carter livery celebrating the Hall of Famer's career as Toronto Raptors retire Carter's Number 15 jersey.
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Rare DC-8 in Calgary! Samaritan's Purse Douglas DC-8-72 at YYC
Alex Praglowski posted this video of the 56-year old aircraft that looks like new with a clean paint job.
The DC-8, line #427, was originally delivered to Finnair as a DC-8-62CF (passenger/cargo convertible) in January 1969 as registration OH-LFR. It was acquired by Armée de l'Air (French Air Force) in November 1981 and registered as F-RAFG, it was converted to cargo configuration and re-engined during this time, becoming a DC-8-72CF.
It was acquired by U.S.-based Air Transport International in June 2005 and registered N721CX until June 2015 when it was re-registered N782SP after being acquired by Samaritan's Purse, a North Carolina-based evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization.
The DC-8 is reportedly being retired later this year and replaced with a Boeing 767.
Lifecycle source: www.planespotters.net
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St. John’s International (YYT) Crowned Best Small Airport in North America
Recognized as the best airport with under 2 million passengers in North America. The award for airport service quality is judged by Airports Council International. Source: vocm.com
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First Air.
The airline was founded at Ottawa by Canadian aviation pioneer Russell (Russ) Bradley and started operations as Bradley Flying School in 1946, changing the name in 1950 to Bradley Air Services, concurrent with a move to Carp Airport, and is still registered under that name.
First Air started scheduled operations in 1973, between Ottawa and North Bay. This service was operated with an eight-seat passenger plane.
In 1995, First Air acquired Ptarmigan Airways, and in 1997 Northwest Territorial Airways (also known as NWT Air), both merged into First Air.
In 2016, First Air/Bradley Air Services became the oldest airline in Canada still operating under its original name.
On November 1, 2019 Canadian North and First Air merged. The merged airline uses the new First Air livery, but operates under the name Canadian North.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Air
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C-FTIL ATR 42-500
Canadian North-First Air livery
at Cambridge Bay Airport
Photo by: CambridgeBayWeather
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Issue dated October 1969
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Service to Orient marks 20th Birthday
CP Air marked 20 years of service to the Orient on September 19, 1969 when flight 401 departed Vancouver for Tokyo and Hong Kong. For the anniversary flight, Captain Lee piloted the DC-8-63 Spacemaster Empress of Honolulu, on the historic flight.
The first Canada-Orient flight, with a Canadair Four aircraft traveled the 6,670 miles to Tokyo and Hong Kong in 30 hours via Anchorage and Shemya. In 1969 the same flight takes 14 hours with no stops between Vancouver and Tokyo. |
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Attend service course
Twenty-two CPA people from South America and the Orient were in Vancouver in two groups this month to study the latest customer service policies and methods. The group pictured were at headquarters the week of July 12. From the left (descending), they were: Luis Moran, Armando Del Callejo, Fidel Valdez Garcia and Miss Leonor Rames, all Mexico City; Edward Chu, Hong Kong; Tomio Suzuki and Yukie Isomoto, Tokyo; Miss Elida Barbieri, Buenos Aires; Miss Mariana Yichmann, Santiago and Miss Norma Beltran, Lima.
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The following attended the course during the week of July 26, 1969.
Juan Lopez, Anastasio Escalona, Fernando Sustaita, Luis Baragan, all Mexico City; Kenny Wong, Hong Kong; Toshiharu Togo, Mrs. Yoshiko Huhara, Hirosha Edagawa and F. J. Metzger, all Tokyo; S. L. Rush, Buenos Aires; Monica Sieveps, Santiago and Daniel Archimbaud, Lima (no photo available).
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Stewardess Kay Simons is not the only one who can fly. Here with a porpoise in Queensland, Australia, Miss Simons was competing in the Miss International Air Hostess Contest in which she was runner-up.
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Issue dated May 1998
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 Our Sales force in London, U.K. in 1998 were creating wins one step at a time.The team includes (from top): Shilla Gill, Gary Kershaw, Lucy Moore, Denise Mihell, Maggie Coombe, Tony Powles, Nicky Edmunds, Jenny Ruler, Kim Lord and Gary Cross.
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Maintaining our aircraft at LHR are Daniel Hetherington and Tim McSharry.
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