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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

early tca crestOur 'Featured Video' incorporates a silent film clip taken at Malton in the early spring of 1939. A new Lockheed Electra 14H-2 landing at Malton Field near Toronto on a familiarization flight from Montréal prior to the start of TCA trans-continental service on 1 April 1939.

 Click Here or the the TCA crest to view the video on YouTube.

Editors' Note: Watch for former NetLetter editor, Alan Rust, listed in the ending credits.

Below are a couple of still photos extracted from the video.


CF-TCM Lockheed Electra 14H-2 (Fin #35) at Malton Airport.
Delivered to Trans-Canada Air Lines September 19, 1938.
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Here we have CF-TCM and CF-AZY in a hangar 1939.
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Editor's note from Ken Pickford

CF-AZY, on the left in the photo, is a Lockheed 10A, one of two delivered to Winnipeg-based Canadian Airways in 1936 and later acquired by TCA, possibly at the time of TCA's founding in 1937. Canadian Airways was one of the ten smaller airlines acquired and merged to create Canadian Pacific Air Lines in 1942. 

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