Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

In NetLetter #1469 we had an article regarding Canadian Pacific Air Lines'  DC-6 aircraft, registration CF-CZV, and made mention of its long history.

Here we have a detailed history for movements for this aircraft.

Pacific Western fleet chart.

Source: Air Canada 75th anniversary book.

Pacific Western Airlines fleet #732, registration CF-PWE.

From contributor GEmptor to the pwareunion.com on September 27, 2021 -

Presidential Airways Boeing 737-275C EI-BJP in the hangar. 

Delivered to Pacific Western Airlines as CF-PWE, this aircraft was re-registered by Presidential Airways as N331XV and would serve with NWT Air. The plane was brought to Phoenix to get painted in a partial scheme - no stripes to save on paint costs and NWT Air was only leasing the aircraft. Aircraft currently stored since 2006!

Editors' Note: The aircraft also served WestJet as C-GJWK from March 1996 to March 2000.

Mike Garrett posted this on the CP Air Employees Facebook page on October 14, 2021

Seen here taking off from Boeing Field at Seattle, Washington on a test flight is CP Air's first Boeing 737-200, registration CF-CPB.

This was the first B-737 for CP Air, the first to be delivered in the new CP orange livery and CP Air was the first airline in Canada to use the Boeing 737.

Accepted by CP Air October 22, 1968, CF-CPB was with CP until November 9, 1982. 

Our cartoon by Dave Mathias appeared in the 'Between Ourselves' magazine issued March 1964, the caption reads "Before I review the headquarters plans for Trans Parent Air Lines I would appreciate if any field managers who have any hot rumours on the subject would raise their hands!".

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

SWISS offers home baggage collection for Geneva airport.

Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) now offering passengers departing from Geneva airport the option of having their baggage collected at home through the AirPortr service.

By booking online, passengers can have their bags securely collected up to 23 hours prior to departure from their home or hotel and delivered on to the destination airport. The service is available across the Lemanic Region, including Geneva, Nyon, Montreux, and Lausanne, and once the initial test phase is complete it should be extended across the entire country.

SWISS is currently the first airline to offer this service in Switzerland, but it will soon be extended to other airlines of the Lufthansa Group. The AirPortr offering will give passengers the opportunity to travel hands-free to the airport and through its terminals.

Source: AC Daily October 20, 2021

Additional info @ www.futuretravelexperience.com

Ohio’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles did a quick 180 after failing its creative license test with a physics-defying image of the Wright Flyer.

The state’s motto is 'Birthplace of Aviation' in reference to the Wright brothers’ Dayton headquarters for development of what is generally accepted to be the first powered aircraft. The BMV’s new design for license plates incorporates a banner-towing version of the aircraft that first took flight in North Carolina in 1903.

Shortly after the unveiling of the new design, Ohioans flooded social media to point out that the rendering of the Wright’s ash, spruce and linen world-changing invention was depicted backward and was therefore pushing the banner.

The BMV wasted little time in flipping the image and announced a clean-sheet redesign the same day. 

Source: avweb.com 

Rolls-Royce Tests SAF on Trent 1000. 

Rolls-Royce has successfully completed a test flight of its Trent 1000 engine using 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

The flight, which used the company’s 747 flying test bed aircraft, lasted three hours and 54 minutes. According to Rolls-Royce, initial results from the test “confirm there were no engineering issues.”

Conducted out of Arizona’s Tucson airport, the test was undertaken in partnership with Boeing and World Energy. Rolls-Royce has also carried out ground and air testing of its Trent XWB and Pearl engines using 100 percent SAF. The company says that all of its Trent engines will be compatible with 100 percent SAF by 2023.

Source: avweb.com

Singapore Airlines to resume 5th freedom Manchester-Houston route.

Singapore Airlines announced it will restart this fifth-freedom route on December 1, 2021.

It had suspended this service since the start of the pandemic. Flights will operate three times a week (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday) with an Airbus A350-900 configured for 42 Business, 24 Premium Economy and 197 Economy class seats.

Source: Business Traveller