1986 de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8 Series 100, c/n 049, C-FABT, Air BC

1986 de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8 Series 100, c/n 049, C-FABT, Air BC (Jim Pattison Group, CP Air Commuter partner), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada; powered by two 2,000-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120A turboprop engines with constant-speed, full-feathering reversible-pitch, four-blade Hamilton Standard propellers; retractable landing gear; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration Y37, medium-range regional airliner; built by de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario at Downsview, Ontario; first flight on October 2, 1986; C-FABT, Air BC, Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. on October 18, 1986; C-FABT, Air Nova, Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia on March 25, 1999; C-FABT, Air Canada Regional (Air Canada Regional Inc.), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia on November 2, 2001, merged; C-FABT, “848”, Air Canada Jazz (Jazz Aviation LP), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia in April 2002, transferred; C-FABT, “848”, Air Canada Express (Jazz Aviation LP), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia on April 26, 2011, transferred; active.

Landing at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Sunday, May 7, 1988.

[1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter; Kodak Kodachrome 64 36-exposure colour slide film]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, May 1988

1975 de Havilland Canada DHC-7-102 Dash 7 Series 100, c/n 003, C-GFEL, “401”, Air BC

1975 de Havilland Canada DHC-7-102 Dash 7 Series 100, c/n 003, C-GFEL, “401”, Air BC (Jim Pattison Group, CP Air Commuter partner), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada; powered by four 1,120-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-50 turboprop engines with constant-speed, full-feathering reversible-pitch, four-blade Hamilton Standard propellers; retractable landing gear; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration Y54, STOL (short take-off and landing) regional airliner; built by de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario at Downsview, Ontario; test registration C-GQIW-X; EC-DCB, Spantax (Spantax SA), Madrid, Spain on May 31, 1978; C-GFEL, de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario on May 3, 1981, returned; C-GFEL, Air BC, Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. on July 16, 1983, leased from de Havilland Canada; C-GFEL, de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario on April 28, 1989, returned; stored in sad condition at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport (LAS), Paradise, Nevada, USA in March 1990, wearing colours of Air BC minus titles and tail logo; suffered damage in a fire at Hughes Aviation hangar in March 1990; N703WW, Worldwide Resources Ltd., West Babylon, New York purchased on December 4, 1990, registered on January 24, 1991, cancelled on March 25, 1995, stored; withdrawn from use; written off (damaged beyond repair); scrapped.

Landing at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Sunday, May 7, 1988.

[1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter; Kodak Kodachrome 64 36-exposure colour slide film]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, May 1988

1977 Boeing 747-236B, c/n 21239/302, G-BDXB, City of Liverpool, British Airways

1977 Boeing 747-236B, c/n 21239/302, G-BDXB, City of Liverpool, British Airways, London, England; powered by four 53,000-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce RB211-524D4-B-19 high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer), seating configuration F14C64Y298, long-range, wide-body, double-deck airliner; built by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, USA at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Everett, Washington; first flight on February 22, 1977, test registration N8280V; G-BDXB, City of Liverpool, British Airways, London on June 16, 1977; G-BDXB, Nigeria Airways (Nigeria Airways Ltd.), Abuja, Nigeria on November 2, 1999, leased; G-BDXB, British Airways, London on August 3, 2000, returned; stored.

I flew aboard the City of Liverpool non-stop from London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England to Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Sunday, August 16, 1987.

In background is 1977 Boeing 747-236B, c/n 21240/305, G-BDXC, City of Manchester, British Airways, London, England; powered by four 53,000-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce RB211-524D4-B-19 high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer), seating configuration F14C64Y298, long-range, wide-body, double-deck airliner; built by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, USA at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Everett, Washington; first flight on April 8, 1977; G-BDXC, City of Manchester, British Airways, London on June 22, 1977, cancelled in September 2001; tt 100,115 hours, 16,182 landings; G-BDXC, EAC—European Aircharter (European Aviation Air Charter Ltd.), Bournemouth, Dorset, England on March 8, 2002, cancelled in July 2002; scrapped at Cardiff Airport (CWL), Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales on August 18, 2002.

Starboard view of Arctic Canada.

Over northern Canada.

1977 Boeing 747-236B, c/n 21239/302, G-BDXB, City of Liverpool, British Airways having just arrived at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. in late afternoon or early evening (?).

[1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter; Kodak Gold Super 200 36-exposure colour negative film]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, August 1987

1972 Fokker F-28-1000 Fellowship, c/n 11061, C-FCRZ, “143”, Air Canada Jazz

1972 Fokker F-28-1000 Fellowship, c/n 11061, C-FCRZ, “143”, Air Canada Jazz (Jazz Aviation LP), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada; powered by two 9,850-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce RB183-2 Spey Mk. 555-15 low-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration Y65, short-range regional airliner; tail-mounted speed brakes; built by Fokker, Amsterdam, Netherlands at Woensdrecht Air Base (WOE), Woensdrecht; first flight on October 17, 1972; PK-GJU, Garuda Indonesian Airways (Garuda Indonesian Airways PT), Jakarta, Indonesia on November 15, 1972; PK-GVF, Tulang Bawang, Garuda Indonesian Airways, Jakarta, Indonesia, re-registered; PH-EXD, Fokker, Amsterdam, Netherlands; N280N, Piedmont Airlines, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA on March 2, 1984; N463AU, USAir, Phoenix, Arizona on August 15, 1989, merged; C-FCRZ, “143”, Spirit of Québec City, Canadian Regional Airlines, Calgary, Alberta in November 1995; C-FCRZ, “143”, Air Canada Regional (Air Canada Regional Inc.), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia in November 2001, transferred; registration cancelled on September 19, 2005; withdrawn from use; stored at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.

Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. on Friday, July 24, 2009 at 8:15 am.

[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, July 2009

2005 Canadair CL-600-2D15 Regional Jet CRJ-705ER, c/n 15055, C-GPJZ, “716”, Air Canada Jazz

2005 Canadair CL-600-2D15 Regional Jet CRJ-705ER, c/n 15055, C-GPJZ, “716”, Air Canada Jazz (Jazz Aviation LP), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada; powered by two 13,123-lbs thrust General Electric CF34-8C5 high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration C10Y65, regional airliner; built by Bombardier Aerospace, Montréal, Québec at Montréal-Mirabel International Airport (YMX), Mirabel, Québec; built as CL-600-2D24 Regional Jet CRJ-900ER, powered by two 13,790-lbs thrust General Electric CF34-8C1 high-bypass turbofan engines; C-FGND, Bombardier Aerospace, Montréal, Québec on October 24, 2005; 5A-, Libyan Arab Airlines, Tripoli, Libya, not taken up; converted to CL-600-2D15 Regional Jet CRJ-705ER; owner registered since November 16, 2007.

Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. on Friday, July 24, 2009 at 8:15 am.

[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, July 2009

1990 Airbus A320-211, c/n 150, C-FFWJ, “210”, Air Canada

1990 Airbus A320-211, c/n 150, C-FFWJ, “210”, Air Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada; powered by two 25,000-lbs thrust CFM International CFM56-5A1 high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration C14Y132, short- to medium-range, narrow-body airliner; built by Airbus Industrie, Toulouse-Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France at Toulouse-Blagnac/Hamburg, Germany/England; first flight on December 11, 1990, test registration F-WWDQ; delivered on February 18, 1991.

Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. on Friday, July 24, 2009 at 8:16 am.

[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, July 2009

1961 Douglas DC-8-43, c/n 45622/137, CF-CPI, “604”, Empress of Amsterdam, Canadian Pacific Air Lines

1961 Douglas DC-8-43, c/n 45622/137, CF-CPI, “604”, Empress of Amsterdam, Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada; powered by four 17,625-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce RCo.12 Conway Mk. 509 low-bypass turbofan engines; crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer), seven flight attendants, seating configuration 132 passengers (dual F/Y class cabin), intercontinental narrow-body airliner; built by Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, USA; completed on April 26, 1961; delivered to Canadian Pacific Air Lines on May 20, 1961; named Empress of Calgary in May 1961; renamed Empress of Amsterdam in 1968; transferred to CP Air on April 1, 1969; re-registered as C-FCPI on January 1, 1974; sold to F.B. Ayer & Associates Inc., New York, New York, USA on November 16, 1980; the Empress of Amsterdam spent 19 years with Canadian Pacific Air Lines/CP Air before being stored, to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department in December 1982, and scrapped at Opa-locka Airport (OPF), Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA in 1988.

Felix Hayo Scharnberg and Stephan Alexander Scharnberg moments before boarding Flight 382, Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Tuesday, July 23, 1968. 

This was still the old terminal, what is now the South Terminal with most of the original building still existing, albeit minus the control tower and the outside observation deck. I recall looking into the distance across the tarmac to the new terminal being built to the north, nearing completion. It was sunny with some high clouds.

We had two stops en route, served with refreshments to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, then Edmonton, Alberta, followed by dinner and breakfast, arriving at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (Luchthaven Schiphol) (AMS), Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands the following morning. We rented a baby blue Renault 16 in Amsterdam and drove through the Netherlands, West Germany, and Switzerland, visiting friends and relatives. I have no record of which DC-8 we returned on, but it was Flight 381, departing Amsterdam-Schiphol on Tuesday, September 3, 1968. We had two stops en route, served with lunch and dinner to Edmonton, then Calgary, followed by refreshments to Vancouver.

1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-83, CF-HUZ, Dryad II, West Coast Transmission Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada; powered by two 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engines with constant-speed three-blade Hartzell propellers; amphibious flying boat hull; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), eight passengers, commercial transport; built by The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, Long Island, New York, USA at Plant 2, Bethpage, Long Island, New York (F); built as JRF-5 Goose (Model G-38), powered by two 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-6 Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engines with constant-speed two-blade Hamilton Standard propellers; delivered as BuNo 37830 to US Navy in September 1944; transferred to RCAF; taken on strength as Goose Mk. II, “393” on October 2, 1944; No. 9 Transport Group, RCAF, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from 1946, became Air Transport Command on April 1, 1948 which relocated to RCAF Station Lachine, near Lachine and Dorval, Québec, Canada on August 9, 1951; struck off strength on February 14, 1956; converted to G-21A Goose; CF-HUZ, BNP Airways Ltd. (consortium of B.C. Electric/Northern Construction/Powell River Company Ltd./MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at Hangar #1 (located at what is now South Terminal), Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., on February 14, 1956; engines upgraded, fitted with retractable floats; CF-HUZ, Dryad II, MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at Hangar #1, Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., in 1966; CF-HUZ, Dryad II, West Coast Transmission Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada from 1967 to 1977; C-FHUZ, Dryad II, MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., on January 22, 1980, cancelled on November 8, 1994; C-FHUZ, Pacific Coastal Airlines (Pacific Coastal Airlines Ltd.), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at Port Hardy Airport (YZT), Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, B.C., on November 8, 1994; active.

CF-HUZ appears to be taxiing as her propellers are spinning.

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319]

© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, July 1968 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011