WORDS & WINGS: I-BUSG

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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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

1981 Airbus A300B4-203, c/n 139, I-BUSG, Canaletto, Alitalia

1981 Airbus A300B4-203, c/n 139, I-BUSG, Canaletto, Alitalia (Alitalia—Linee Aeree Italiane SpA), Roma, Lazio, Italy; powered by two 52,535-lbs thrust General Electric CF6-50C2 high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration F18Y235, short- to medium-range, wide-body airliner; built by Airbus Industrie, Toulouse-Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France at Toulouse-Blagnac/Hamburg, Germany/England; first flight on March 11, 1981, test registration F-WZES; I-BUSG, Alitalia, Roma, Lazio on April 28, 1981; converted to A300B4-203F; N59139, FSBU (First Security Bank of Utah), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on March 20, 1998; N59139, JHM Cargo Airlines, San Jose, Costa Rica on March 26, 2000; TC-KZT, Kuzu Airlines Cargo, Istanbul, Turkey on September 27, 2007; EP-ICE, Iran Air, Mehrabad International Airport (THR), Tehran, Iran on May 22, 2008; active.

London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England on Sunday, August 16, 1987.

[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]