Singer-Link GAT-1 (General Aviation Trainer), “N192GP”, British Columbia Aviation Museum

Singer-Link GAT-1 (General Aviation Trainer), “N192GP”, British Columbia Aviation Museum on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 12:53 PST

Singer-Link GAT-1 (General Aviation Trainer), “N192GP”, British Columbia Aviation Museum, Victoria International Airport (YYJ/CYYJ), North Saanich, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada

• powered by three 12-Volt electric motors with domestic 240V main supply
• single-seat, instrument flight simulator (single-engine aircraft cockpit flight simulator)
• fibreglass cockpit mounted on gyroscope-controlled, six-degrees-of-freedom heavy mechanical base (holding the three electric motors and a slip ring allowing cockpit to yaw, roll, and pitch) capable of throwing it through a 360-degree turn at any pitch up to 10 degrees at a touch of the controls, feeding the resulting information back to the cockpit instrument panel
• fully-representative instrument panel, yoke, throttle, mixture controls, rudder pedals

• built by The Singer Company, Link Division, Binghamton, New York, USA at Binghamton, New York
• Link Trainer
• last generation of mechanical flight simulators
• static display

[Nikon Coolpix L20 point-and-shoot 10 MP digital camera, Nikkor 38–136-mm f/3.1–6.7 lens, s/n 51002451]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, December 2011

1963 Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee, c/n 28-1067, C-FOZL, Harry Addison and Raymond Moore

At 12:21 PST

1963 Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee, c/n 28-1067, C-FOZL, Harry Addison and Raymond Moore inside hangar of British Columbia Aviation Museum, 1910 Norseman Road, Victoria International Airport (YYJ/CYYJ), North Saanich, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 12:24 PST

1963 Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee, c/n 28-1067, C-FOZL, Harry Addison, Brentwood Bay, Vancouver Island, B.C. and Raymond Moore, Sidney, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada, based at Victoria International Airport (YYJ/CYYJ), North Saanich, Vancouver Island, B.C.

• powered by one 180-hp Lycoming O-360-A3A four-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, air-cooled piston engine with fixed-pitch two-blade Sensenich propeller
• pilot, three passengers, general aviation
• fixed tricycle landing gear, wheel spats, starboard single door

• built by Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, USA at Vero Beach Municipal Airport (VRB/KVRB), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
• early history unknown
• C-FOZL, Jack Angus, Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada cancelled on July 21, 1982
• based at Victoria International Airport (YYJ/CYYJ)
• C-FOZL, J.W. Robertson, Sidney, Vancouver Island, B.C. and Raymond Moore, Sidney, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada cancelled on September 26, 1986
• based at Victoria International Airport (YYJ/CYYJ)
• registered to Harry Addison and Raymond Moore on December 5, 1986
• active

[Nikon Coolpix L20 point-and-shoot 10 MP digital camera, Nikkor 38–136-mm f/3.1–6.7 lens, s/n 51002451]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, December 2011

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