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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

wayne albertson articles

CF-TOA - Air Canada's first Boeing 747
 
The reprint of Bill Norberg's memories of the delivery of Air Canada's first Boeing 747 got me wondering the lifecycle of the first B-747 to enter service with a Canadian airline.
 
Line #104, MSN 20013 was delivered to Air Canada on February 11, 1971, registered as CF-TOA fin # 301. 
 
I have only vague memories of seeing this aircraft and I know that I never had the opportunity to fly on it. I do recall a seeing a few aircraft with the patch of black between the windshield and the radome.
 
As per Planespotters.net, the aircraft remained in service with AC until leased Global International Airways of Kansas City in June 1983. It was briefly returned to AC (photo below) before being sold to Guinness Peat Aviation and going through a series of leases under various registrations until scrapped sometime around 1995.
 
  • N749R - National Airlines - July 1984, Malaysia Airlines - July 1984, 
  • EI-BPH - PEOPLExpress - February 1985, Middle East Airlines, Flying Tigers - September 1985
  • N890FT - Flying Tigers - May 1998 (re-registration), Federal Express - August 1989, and finally, FSBU First Security Bank of Utah - January 1995.
tmb 550 B 747 ad
Original ad for the introduction  on the B-747
 
Supplied by Terry Baker
 

Leased to Global International Airways
 
Photo courtesy of Pierre Langlois 
Taken at Montréal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International
October 1983
 

With Flying Tigers registration N890FT
 
Photo courtesy of Marc Lehmann 
Taken at Frankfurt am Main
May 31, 1988

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