WORDS & WINGS: March 2012

1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT. Dockside somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.

[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; Kodak Plus-X Pan (ISO 125/22°) 36-exposure black & white negative film]

“The whole history of the Canadian North can be divided into two periods—before and after the aeroplane.”

Hugh L. Keenleyside, Deputy Canadian Minister of Mines and Resources, October 1949

Friday, March 9, 2012

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Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia in November 2001, transferred; registration cancelled on September 19, 2005; withdrawn from use; stored at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.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]

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]

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]

Thursday, March 8, 2012

1956 de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbine Otter, c/n 106, N707KA, Captain Greg Munro, Kenmore Air

1956 de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbine Otter, c/n 106, N707KA, Captain Greg Munro, Kenmore Air (Kenmore Air Harbor Inc.), Lake Washington, Kenmore, Washington, USA, based at Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base (LKE), Lake Union, Seattle, Washington; powered by one 750-hp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-135 turboprop engine with constant-speed, full-feathering reversible-pitch, three-blade Hartzell propeller; Edo 7490 floats; pilot, ten passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport; built by de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Downsview, Ontario; built as DHC-3 Otter, powered by one 600-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-S1H1-G Wasp supercharged nine-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed three-blade Hamilton Standard Hydromatic propeller; Vazar turbine conversion.

Concourse A, Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base (LKE), Lake Union, Seattle, Washington on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 1:17 pm.

At 1:18 pm.

Kenmore Air parking lot, billboard, and terminal office at Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base (LKE), Lake Union, Seattle, Washington.

At 1:19 pm.

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

1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT

Taxiing to the floating dock somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.

Somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.

Starboard retractable float of 1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT.

(?) Possibly BCFP’s (British Columbia Forest Products) Crofton Pulp and Paper Mill, Crofton, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on return flight to Cowichan Bay after 10 days or two weeks treeplanting on the steep slopes at and near the head of Knight Inlet.