Boeing Model 40

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NC 5390 of Pacific Air Transport hauled mail on the CAM (Contract Air Mail) 8 route (Seattle-Los Angeles) before crashing in 1931.

NC 10339 of Boeing Air Transport parked at its home base in Seattle.

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Model 40s were also built by Boeing Canada as the Model 40H-4. CF-AMQ stayed busy flying the skies of British Columbia before crashing at Dawson Creek in 1937.

NC 269 was a Model 40B that flew the skies for Boeing Air Transport/United Airlines. CAM 18 was the mail route between San Francisco and Chicago.

A Model 40B of United Air Lines.

NC 292 obviously had an “eventful” arrival, but it was repaired and put back into service.

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Considered by many as one of the worst aircraft designs of all time, the “strut-less, wings like a bird” Christmas Bullet had (surprise!) an annoying habit of shedding those unsupported wings immediately after takeoff. Two were built, both lost their visible means of support. Note: Dr. William Christmas designed the aircraft with an idea in mind that it could be used to fly over to Germany and kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm II during WW1. No, I did not make that up.

The artist might have sketched a hard-working engineer that did not look like a mad scientist in his laboratory.

409 AW (F), RCAF

Flightline scenes at RCAF Station Comox in British Columbia circa 1963.

No. 409 All Weather Fighter Interceptor Squadron had traded their CF-100’s for the CF-101 Voodoo and these aircraft would remain a familiar sight in Canadian skies for decades to come.

Welcome to Canada, 1963

Passengers on the liner S.S. Olympia wave hello to the crew of an HO4S-3 (55875) of the Royal Canadian Navy in the autumn of 1963. The vessel, bound from New York to Europe, has now entered Canadian waters thus entitling the boys of the RCN to drop down for a look-see.

Canadair CT-133

This airframe, 133398, lives on today at the Canadian Air Land and Sea Museum in Markham, Ontario. Hopefully, it will return to the condition seen here. “Canadair” – one of the more nifty sounding names in aviation history.

Canadian transport and observation aircraft

The immortal Noorduyn Norseman, and the Auster AOP.6. Floats and skis are par for the course in the land of Canada.

Canadair Sabre in a foreign land…

RCAF Sabre, 23096 has just arrived at Boeing Field for its new life as a chase plane in the flight test division.

Internet sources giving varying dates when Boeing took delivery – 1962 or December 1967. I say ’62: The Canadian Red Ensign on the tail was replaced by the Maple Leaf in 1965. Okay, maybe they were slow in adding the new flag, but there is more… In the background of photo 2 there is no I-5 freeway. By Dec. 1967, this highway had been completed for almost a year. In 1962, the construction had yet to begin near Boeing Field.

A pair of post-war RCAF Lancasters

These are Canadian-built aircraft – not leftovers from the RAF. Numbers are KB892 and FM222 respectively.

A veritable variety of Voodoos

RF-101C 56-0167, 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, was part of the record-breaking “Sun Run” flight, November 27, 1957. The aircraft has just pulled in to the chocks. CF-101B 101014 of No. 425 Squadron. Ex-USAF 57-0298 of the 445th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, it was transferred to Canada in 1970.F-101B, 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. 58-0273 is now on display in South Carolina.NF-101B of Air Research and Development Command. Obviously it was used for, among other things, ejection seat tests. It is now a display aircraft at the Yankee Air Force Museum.

The CF-105 Arrow

RCAF Vickers Vedette

Vedette pays a visit to Vancouver’s Jericho Beach.The Vedette was the first aircraft designed and built in Canada to that country’s specifications and requirements. Wish I had one.

RCAF Otters are ready for anything

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A bunch of Clunks

Avro CF-100 (serial 8402) enjoys some afternoon sunshine while out and about in the late 1950’s. Aircraft is from No. 409 AW(F) Squadron at Comox. Below it, in order: 18255 from No. 423 AW (F) Squadron, 18403 of No. 445 AW (F) Squadron, and below it lurks 18308 of 419 Squadron.

There was an Arrow

A.V. Roe (AVRO) Canada had a lot to boast about in the Fall – Winter edition of Horizons magazine. The new CF-105 Arrow had just rolled out the door, and who wasn’t optimistic? Unfortunately for those who worked at AVRO, the happy scenes depicted in these photos were not going to last for long. The rest is history.

Trans-Canada Air Lines Vickers Viscount at SeaTac Airport in the early 1960’s

Category: Canadian Aircraft