Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Pulling together.

On February 9, 2000, the Canadian Airlines hangar on Convair Drive in Toronto was the place to be for the unveiling of the first Canadian Airlines B-767 in its new transitional livery.

Buoyed by over 500 Air Canada and Canadian Airlines employees in attendance, Robert Milton and Steve Markey, Senior Vice President, Corporate and Government Affairs, Canadian Airlines, were on hand as employees from both carriers pulled the aircraft into the hangar for all to see. The new look, which features the Maple Leaf tail and Canadian proud wings identity on the white fuselage combines the two strong and distinct brands recognized world-wide.

What it takes to paint a B-767:

• 1,200 hours
• 30 gallons of primer
• 45 gallons of white paint
• 15 gallons of green paint

(Source: AC Horizons magazine issue, March 2000)

Norah Carmichael posted this on Facebook August 22, 2020.

CPA inflatable world globes, dated 1968. 

Lynn Gutowsky posted this on August 9, 2020.

First class amenities to Japan.

Mike Nash sent us this link from his YouTube channel:

I was recently going through some old photographs to add to my YouTube channel and I put this together, namely a few months-long period as a student pilot in England shortly before a nine-year career with Air Canada Computer & Systems Services in the 1970's:

How many 1969 vintage aircraft types can your readers identify?

Sincerely

Mike Nash

Michael De Wilde sent in this link to United Airlines Boeing 247 registration NC13364 taking off from Vancouver as posted on the BC History YouTube channel.

Our cartoon is by Dave Mathias and appeared in the "Between Ourselves" issue June 1956, with this caption:

"First, gentlemen, let me show you what drives men through untold hardships in their struggle to conquer the skies - the pay cheque".

Terry Baker, co-founder of the NetLetter scours the internet for aviation related Trivia and Travel Tips for you, our readers, to peruse.

Answer for the mystery airline in 'Odds and Ends'.

Buta Airways is a LCC carrier based in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Azerbaijan Airlines.

In December 2016, it was announced that Azerbaijan Airlines would set up its own in-house, low-cost airline named AZALJet. After a year of operation, it was decided that AZALJet would be replaced by a new airline named Buta Airways, which would have a fleet of two Embraer aircraft in its own livery, operated by its own staff and with an independent tariff policy.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buta_Airways