Coulson Flying Tankers Martin Mars (Part 1)
The world’s last two Martin Mars are operated by Coulson Flying Tankers based at Sproat Lake, near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. Built just as WWII came to end, the two Mars are highly effective fire fighting aircraft that have worked the BC coast since the late 1950s. Being the world’s last operational examples of …Read more »
American Airlines Douglas DC-3 – Visit to Vancouver
On September 14, 2007, the Flagship Detroit Foundation’s lovingly restored American Airlines Douglas DC-3 NC17334 made a first-time visit to Vancouver International Airport as part of an America Airlines sponsored tour of their west coast stations. NC17334 was delivered new to American Airlines in March, 1937. In 1947, it was sold to the Bank of …Read more »
Flying the Bristol Freighter Part II (1994-1998)
Picking up from where the part I program left off, in 1994, Paul Hakwins and his colleagues took over the Terrace-based Bristol Freighter operation. From their defunct employer, Trans-Provincial Airlines. The majority of Hawkair’s work involved hauling between Bronson Creek’s gravel airstrip and Wrangell in support of the Snip Mine.
NWT Air Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules Salamida Airlift 1993
In the Fall of 1993, an isolated gravel airstrip 160 air miles north of Yellowknife named Salamida. It was the scene of a massive, two million pound airlift. This set Canada’s Northwest Territories on course to becoming a major world producer of diamonds. At the time, aviation videographer Henry Tenby employed by NWT Air Lockheed …Read more »
Vickers Viscounts and Vanguard Coventry 1996
In the mid 1990s, most of the freight that passed through Coventry’s night-time freight hub transported aboard vintage propliners. Including Vickers Viscounts and at the time, the world’s last operational Vickers Vanguard. The frenzied, nocturnal, propliner activities which took place from this humble, ramshackle rural location. It captured by aviation videographer Henry Tenby, during several …Read more »
Hawker Siddeley HS748 in Canada
Few aircraft are more at home in the harsh arctic and the wilds of Northern Canada than the reliable, rugged Hawker Siddeley HS748. Many of these excellent, British-built propliners served in Canada over the years, as operators found them ideal on short, gravel strips. Their Dart engines boast plenty of power, and their 11,000-pound payload …Read more »
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