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]


© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011





“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




Monday, May 14, 2012

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

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