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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

David Harwood has sent us some photos of posters which his father had collected.

The New York poster has TCA and AC along the bottom, but the colour had either faded, or it was just a different finish.

tmb poster guadeloupe tmb poster new york

tmb poster bahamas tmb poster germany

Eric Watt visited the Pima Air and Space Museum and sends this information gleaned from the guidebook available at the museum -

  1. Eric did make sure to correct the spelling of Trans-Canada Air Lines; it is spelled 'Trans Canada Airlines' in the guidebook.

This is the 40th Viscount built, the first in North America registered CF-TGI by Trans-Canada Air Lines.

At 9 a.m. on April 18, 1955 it became the first turbine powered aircraft to fly a commercial revenue service in both Canada and the US, departing Toronto for New York with 40 passengers. It flew with Trans-Canada Air Lines until 1963 when it was transferred to TransAir in Canada. In 1973 it was sold to a private individual and was sold in 1980 to the Northwest Travel Club and given the present registration of N22SN.

That didn’t last long and it was sold to Tucson based Viscount Air Services, providing charter and corporate transportation to many groups including rock and roll bands.

In 1991 it was donated to Pima Air and Space Museum where it remains to this very day.

tmb 550 Viscount

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