WORDS & WINGS: Air Canada Jazz

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

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Airport (YHZ), Enfield, Nova Scotia in November 2001, transferred; registration cancelled on September 19, 2005; withdrawn from use; stored at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.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