Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Nordair DC-8 Fleet

While watching this issue's Featured Video tribute to Nordair, I was surprised to see a DC-8 in Nordair livery.

I have always associated Nordair with B-737's. My first airplane ride  was on Nordair charter flights to the Bahamas in 1975. When I started with Air Canada in 1980, Nordair was still operating but I have never seen one of the DC-8's.

So I dove into Google searches and found the three aircraft listed below. From what I can tell, the aircraft were all used for charter services operating for other airlines.

Terry worked for Nordair after retiring from Air Canada and advises the following:

"During 1974-1980 Nordair subcontracted DC-8's for charter work.

In 1975 DC-8 charter service was expanded to Great Britian and some European cities.

In 1980 DC-8 service withdrawn due to high operational costs.

Also a Convair 990 was subcontracted.

(Source: Nordair "Expressions" magazine December 1986)

Note: The magazine I quoted was the final edition and it did not have any indication of what issue number it was."

I am interested to learn if any of our readers have personal experience with these aircraft.

Click the registration to view each aircraft's history at Planespotters.net