1988 de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8 Series 100, c/n 130, C-GKON, “815”, Air Canada Express

1988 de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8 Series 100, c/n 130, C-GKON, “815”, Air Canada Express at Gate 6, Victoria International Airport (YYJ/CYYJ), North Saanich, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 09:51 PST

Still titled AIR CANADA jazz, Air Canada Express flight 8060 departed for Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada as scheduled a few minutes later at 10:00 PST

1988 de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8 Series 100, c/n 130, C-GKON, “815”, Jazz (Jazz Aviation LP/Subsidiary of Chorus Aviation Inc.), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada, based at Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ)

• operating as Air Canada Express (Subsidiary of Air Canada), Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec for Air Canada (ACE Aviation Holdings Inc./Member of STAR ALLIANCE), Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal/Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL/CYUL), Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, Canada
• still titled AIR CANADA jazz, red Maple Leaf motif on tail, and in Air Canada Jazz colour scheme
• powered by two 2,000-shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120A turboprop engines with constant-speed, full-feathering reversible-pitch, four-blade Hamilton Standard propellers
• crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration Y37, medium-range regional airliner
• retractable tricycle landing gear, pressurized cabin, T-tail

• built by Boeing of Canada Ltd., Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario
• C-GKON, Boeing Canada Technology Ltd., Downsview, Ontario, Canada rolled out on December 1, 1988 and cancelled on January 11, 1989
• first flight on December 23, 1988
• delivered as C-GKON, City of Baltimore to Air Ontario (Air Ontario Inc./Subsidiary of Air Canada), London, Ontario, Canada on January 11, 1989 and cancelled on November 5, 2001
• based at London International Airport (YXU/CYXU), London, Ontario
• shortly after merger of Canadian Airlines (Canadian Airlines International Ltd.) and Air Canada, Air Canada Connector regional partners Air BC (Air BC Ltd.), Air Nova (Air Nova Inc.), Air Ontario (Air Ontario Inc.), and Canadian Regional Airlines (Canadian Regional Airlines Ltd.) merged to form Air Canada Regional (Air Canada Regional Inc./Subsidiary of Air Canada) in January 2001, completed in April 2002, and resulted in launch of new name and new brand as Air Canada Jazz
• C-GKON, “815”, Air Canada Regional (Air Canada Regional Inc./Subsidiary of Air Canada), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada on November 5, 2001
• based at Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ)
• transferred
• C-GKON, “815”, Air Canada Jazz (Jazz Air Inc./Subsidiary of Air Canada), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada on July 2, 2002 and cancelled on December 14, 2004
• based at Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ)
• transferred 
• ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. created as Air Canada emerged from bankruptcy in 2004
• C-GKON, “815”, Air Canada Jazz (Jazz Air Limited Partnership/Subsidiary of ACE Aviation Holdings Inc.), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada on December 14, 2004 and cancelled on April 20, 2006
• based at Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ)
• transferred
• ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. sold off all their Air Canada Jazz assets in 2006
• became independent as Jazz Air Income Fund
• C-GKON, “815”, Jazz (Jazz Air LP/Subsidiary of Jazz Air Income Fund), Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada on April 20, 2006 and cancelled on February 10, 2011
• based at Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ/CYHZ)
• operating as Air Canada Jazz
• Jazz Air Income Fund restructured as a corporation and renamed as Chorus Aviation Inc. on November 15, 2010
• Jazz (Jazz Aviation LP) made a subsidiary of Chorus Aviation Inc. on December 31, 2010
• registered to Jazz on February 10, 2011
• Air Canada Jazz rebranded as Air Canada Express on May 3, 2011
• active

[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens, s/n 31002061A]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, December 2011