Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Found in 'Horizons' magazine

Issue dated March 1980

Moncton Milestone.

Birthday cakes were the order of the day at Moncton's downtown and airport offices on February 15, 1980 when employees marked the 40th anniversary of passenger service between Moncton and Montreal.

The events were reminders of that date in 1940 when Captain J.D. Storie carried a full load of ten passengers on a Lockheed 14H-2 from Moncton's Lakeburn airfield to Montreal's St. Hubert airport.

Flight 24 with Captain Walt Fowler at the controls had landed at Moncton earlier in the day, marking the beginning of eastbound service.

The little Lockheeds described by the Moncton Daily Times as 'huge transcontinental airliners' have since been progressively replaced by bigger and faster aircraft.

In the photo below, express packages are being loaded aboard the inaugural flight from Moncton to Toronto.

Shown from the left are: F.M. Smith, C.N. Express, Moncton; G.J. Pytlik, TCA Air Engineer and H.C. Duffey, Express Agent, Moncton. 

Here we have the cover (left) and a section of the timetable (below) issued January 1, 1940.

Before ..... After ..... at Winnipeg

The introduction of CAPP (Computer Assisted Passenger Processing) at Winnipeg Airport coincided with the development of standard ticketing and check in counters ('before' left).

These two projects, combined with the addition of the standard back wall treatment made Winnipeg the first Station in the system to sport the integrated new look ('after' below).

The functional and visually attractive area is the product of a cooperative effort by Properties & Facilities, Transportation Services, Computer & Systems Services, Winnipeg and input from all other stations.

Issue dated April 1980 

The latest to join the fleet.

A milestone was reached when the company took delivery of the 1,600th Boeing 727 produced by the aircraft manufacturer.

Shown taking part in the delivery presentations are, from the left; Captain Adrian Boelan; Graeme Howard of Boeing; Bob Schmidt, the Chief Inspector at Boeing and Ford Chown, Manager, Factory Representation, Seattle.

The B-727, the first of which rolled off the assembly line sixteen and a half years ago, has been hailed as the most successful commercial aircraft in service to date.

Boeing 727-233 c/n 22037 fin #425 C-GAAY delivered April 10, 1980, sold during 1990 to Federal Express re-registered as N272FE and named 'Logan' (Fedex has a tradition of naming aircraft after employee's children). 

Editor's Note by Ken Pickford -

On its retirement from Fedex in 2007, it was donated to the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (DFW) airport fire department for training purposes.

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