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History of El Avion, the aircraft restaurant mentioned in NetLetter #1511. Our Fairchild C-123 was a part of one of the biggest scandals in the 1980’s. The Reagan Administration set up a bizarre network of arms sales to Iran designed to win the release of US hostages held in Lebanon and raise money to fund the Nicaraguan, counter-revolutionary guerrilla fighters, commonly referred to as the “Contras”. By artificially inflating the prices of arms, “National Security Council” NSC official Oliver North, was able to reap profits that could be diverted to fund the counter-revolutionaries of the Cuban allied Sandinista government. Full story at www.elavion.net/history |
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Delivery of new transport planes behind schedule, RCAF confirms. During 2022, the RCAF bought two used Airbus A330-200 wide-body passenger planes from Kuwait Airways. The government pegged the value of the contract at $102 million US. The new aircraft were supposed to arrive in Canada last winter. After both aircraft have received maintenance checks in Basel, Switzerland, they'll be repainted in Chateauroux, France, the home of Satys Aerospace, which specializes in repainting large aircraft. The first Airbus to be delivered will be painted in the red, white and blue colour scheme that was unveiled for the prime minister's aircraft ten years ago by the Harper government. The second Airbus will be painted in a glossy grey used by some of the current Polaris fleet. The first of the two Airbus A330's is expected to arrive at CFB Trenton sometime over the summer. The second is set to arrive by the fall. According to the flight tracking website Flight Aware.com, the first Airbus arrived in Basel three months ago. It has since been moved to Chateauroux for painting. The second Airbus arrived in Basel for its maintenance checks from Kuwait City late last month. These new aircraft will start the replacement of the RCAF's fleet of five smaller Airbus A310's. These five Polaris aircraft were built for Wardair in the late 1980's. Source: www.cbc.ca |
