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The photo below is of G-CASQ, a Fokker Super Universal, being operated by Canadian Airways Ltd., from Sea Island Airport (Vancouver), on August 1, 1936. One of the passengers on board was Brenda Moffatt, travelling to Victoria, to attend Normal School, for studies to become a school teacher.
This aircraft was manufactured in 1928, by Atlantic, and was first registered to Western Canada Airways, Winnipeg, 16 January 1929. On 25 November 1930, the Fokker was registered to Canadian Airways, Winnipeg (by company name change). On 30 June 1937, the aircraft was registered to T.H. Jones, Vancouver, B.C. G-CASQ, was damaged beyond repair at Disappointment Inlet (Vancouver Island) during a forced landing in bad weather, 17 November 1938. Both pilot and passenger escaping injury.
(source: Canadian Civil Aircraft Register by John R. Ellis (1920-1928).
It just so happened, that Miss Brenda Moffatt was flying on G-CASQ, to Victoria, the same day as the Junior Board of Trade, of the Vancouver Board of Trade, sponsored Western Canada’s Annual Air Show (Fifth), on Sea Island Airport.
(Source as to Air Show – Vancouver Sun).
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