Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Canadian Aviation History YouTube Channel

We found this great source of short historic films that have been preserved and posted on YouTube.

Come join Canada History Channel on a trip through our nation's aviation past!

With a belief that a common past builds a common future, this channel aims to provide you regular updates!

Source: www.youtube.com/@CanadaHistory/videos

Trans-Canada Air Lines Douglas DC-8-42
taking off from Montreal's Dorval Airport in the early 1960's.

Canadair North Star in RCAF and TCA Service 1950's

If You’d Invested $1,000 in Air Canada Stock in 2014, This Is How Much You Would Have Today.

There are many looking at their Air Canada shares on the TSX today and feeling sick. After hitting all-time highs back in 2019, the company plunged and has yet to recover. But not everyone has shares like this.

In fact, if you had invested just $1,000 in 2014, your shares could be worth as much as $3,041 as of writing! So, what was going on to cause those shares to climb, and is it something Air Canada stock can do again?

Full article at: ca.finance.yahoo.com

Air Canada Cargo Named 2024 ATW Cargo Operator of the Year

Air Canada and Air Canada Cargo are honoured to have been named the 2024 Cargo Operator of the Year as part of the 50th annual ATW Airline Industry Achievement Awards, the first Canadian operator to be bestowed the award.

Air Canada Cargo was recognized for its digital transformation as a key pillar of its commercial strategy, including a customer-centric digital environment that provides valuable self-serve scheduling and booking tools. Air Canada Cargo has also moved customer accounts to a cloud-based system, reducing the need for paper air waybills.

Source: media.aircanada.com

Submitted by Tim Johnston -

Hello Gentlemen,

I have a favourite picture of myself that goes back a really long way. On September 14, 1946, Trans-Canada Air Lines flew its new North Star on a demonstration flight across Canada, stopping in Toronto, Fort William, Winnipeg, Lethbridge, and Vancouver. From Vancouver, the flight continued to the Douglas factory in Santa Monica, California and then returned to Montreal via Vancouver.

The aircraft was crewed by Captain Al Lilly, Ron Baker, Jack Hood and Smokey Harris. Among the luminaries on board were the Honourable C.D. Howe, Minister of Reconstruction and Supply; H. J. Symington, President of TCA; Eric Warlow-Davie and J. Hall, representing Rolls-Royce, and Jim Bain, representing Canadair (thank you, Larry Milberry).

I was also on that historic aircraft. When it landed in Lethbridge, the hub of TCA's Alberta operations at the time, a photographer from The Lethbridge Herald, Lloyd Knight, asked my sister Dorothy if she would like to be in a newspaper picture commemorating the arrival of the aircraft. She agreed and took her little brother along as well and the attached picture was the result.

Yep, that's me on the North Star's nose wheel, carefully balanced by my favourite big sister. Kind of an unusual claim to fame, but the picture is a great memory for me. I cannot recall actually going out to Kenyon Field, seeing the aircraft or posing on it. Old photographs can be wonderful.

This is the third item I have submitted to NetLetter, the others being information on the Grumman Goose that I photographed in Edmonton in 1966 and the picture of Wardair's Boeing 727 in company with the DC-6 it would replace. You folk do a great job with NetLetter and I'm glad I could provide a bit of content.

Best wishes for now,

Tim Johnston

Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.

Remember when the UK passport was quite cumbersome - the one just below was issued in 1986...BUT at least the holder could smile!

The passport pictured below was 4 inches wide by 6 inches tall with 30 pages for visas. Earlier versions also had a sheet as the last page for noting the amount of currency being taken out of the country when currency controls were in place.

The passport was later reduced to pocket size (3 1/2 x 5 inches) with a new burgundy booklet circa 1988 and has continued to go through several changes over the years.

'European Community'
circa 1988