1936 Stearman PT-13 Kaydet (Model 75), c/n 75-003, N68492

Kevin Maher (sometimes pilot of 1954 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 713, C-GHPG, Metasoft Systems Inc.) invited me into his hangar to see his pride and joy, the third oldest of this model in existence: 1936 Stearman PT-13 Kaydet (Model 75), c/n 75-003, N68492 in a private hangar at Duncan Airport (DUQ/CAM3), Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 14:02 PDT.

1936 Stearman PT-13 Kaydet (Model 75), c/n 75-003, N68492 (CF-KTE reserved), Kevin Maher, Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada, based at Duncan Airport (DUQ/CAM3), Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C.

• powered by one 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed two-blade Hamilton Standard propeller and propeller spinner
• tandem instructor and student, military biplane primary trainer for USAAC
• biplane, positive stagger wings; outboard aileron on each lower wing; no flaps
• open cockpits, windscreen for front cockpit, windscreen for rear cockpit, baggage compartment behind rear seat
• fixed conventional landing gear with steerable tailwheel

History:

• built by Stearman Aircraft Division, The Boeing Aircraft Company, Wichita, Kansas, USA at Stearman Plant, Wichita Municipal Airport, Wichita, Kansas (BW)
• Stearman Aircraft Company purchased by The Boeing Aircraft Company in September 1934
• Stearman Aircraft Division renamed as Wichita Division in 1939
• built as PT-13, powered by one 225-hp Lycoming R-680-B4B nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engine with fixed-pitch two-blade Sensenich wood propeller
• third in Model 75’s initial production run of 26 (order no. 36-026: c/n 75-001 to c/n 75-026, s/n 36-2 to s/n 36-27) !
• the third oldest Model 75 in existence
• the oldest is c/n 75-001, s/n 36-2, N75001, William B. Field Trustee, Pleasanton, California, USA in a private collection at Bud Field Aviation, Hayward Executive Airport (HWD/KHWD), Hayward, California, USA (certificate of airworthiness issued on April 18, 1974 and expired on June 30, 2013)
• the second oldest is c/n 75-002, s/n 36-3, N4900V, Jack Ellis, El Centro, California, USA (cancelled on August 8, 2012)
• all initial Model 75 manufacturer plates had no mention of “Boeing” printed on them as well as some, if not all, of the PT-13As
• PT-13 had the vertical format plate riveted to the rear instrument panel base on the starboard side, PT-13 had unique instrument panels, the floating portions of the panels were different shaped from all the other aircraft and had different shock mount locations than the rest of the aircraft; they aren’t interchangeable
• delivered as s/n 36-4 to USAAC on October 26, 1936
• ferried by Deed Levy to Parks Air College, Parks College Airfield, Cahokia, Illinois, USA in late October 1936
• to Air Corps Training Center, USAAC
• based at Randolph Field, Bexar County, near San Antonio,Texas, USA
• markings in yellow on fuselage & in black on lower wings; coded 502 on forward fuselage and on rear fuselage; titled ARMY on lower surface on lower port wing and U.S. on lower surface on lower starboard wing; USAAC roundel (August 1919–May 1942) on upper surfaces on each upper wing and on lower surfaces on each lower wing; overall gloss light blue (23) finish with gloss yellow (4) on upper and lower surfaces on each wing, horizontal stabilizer, & vertical stabilizer, gloss light blue (23) wheel covers, wing struts, & landing gear legs, and dark blue vertical band at rudder hinge with thirteen alternating red & white horizontal tail stripes on rudder; in USAAC colour scheme (pre-1939)
• fixed conventional landing gear with steerable tailwheel
• assigned to 46th School Squadron, redesignated as 46th Basic Flying Training Squadron; 47th School Squadron, redesignated as 47th Basic Flying Training Squadron; 52nd School Squadron, redesignated as 52nd Basic Flying Training Squadron; or 53rd School Squadron, redesignated as 53rd Basic Flying Training Squadron; all redesignated on September 1, 1940
• Air Corps Training Center, USAAC redesignated as Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center, USAAC on August 22, 1940
• Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center, USAAF redesignated as Gulf Coast Training Center, USAAF on March 15, 1942
• assigned to Air Corps Flying Training Command, USAAF on January 23, 1942
• assigned to Army Air Forces Flying Training Command, USAAF on March 15, 1942
• PT-13, PT-13A, and PT-13B redesignated as PT-13 Kaydet, PT-13A Kaydet, and PT-13B Kaydet in 1941
• USAAC (United States Army Air Corps) became the USAAF (United States Army Air Force) on June 20, 1941
• served there until accident in 1943 when flipped over on landing
• after a rebuild six months later, sent to Ontario AAF (Army Airfield), Ontario, California, USA
• USAAF surplus in 1946 with tt 3,000 airframe hours
• sold to Agair Inc. at Eagle Field, Dos Palos, California, USA
• converted to American Airmotive NA-75, agricultural sprayer, single-seat open cockpit with front seat replaced by chemical hopper, unequal-span positive staggered high-lift wings with outboard ailerons on upper and lower wings, spray bars on wing trailing edges, metal fuselage, and a 55 US-gallon fuel tank, either remanufactured by or converted via a conversion kit sold by National Aircraft Division, American Airmotive Corporation, Miami, Florida, USA sometime after 1956
• N68492, “10”, Agair Inc., Dos Palos, California, USA
• based at Eagle Field, Fresno County, near Dos Palos, California
• the 225-hp Lycoming R-680-B4B was replaced with a 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior, then a 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp SC, and finally back to a 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior
• its working days ended in 1987 with tt 8,500 hours, finally being replaced by an Air Tractor AT-301
• N68492, William L. Young, Temple City, California, USA on January 12, 1990 and cancelled on February 24, 1993
• purchased by Kevin Maher in 1994
• imported in 1994
• long, slow restoration process with many life-driven interruptions but Kevin Maher hopes to return the Stearman to the skies within a few years
• he says it has been a wonderful life-altering experience restoring it
• the predecessor to his employer Air Canada, Trans-Canada Air Lines (Trans-Canada Air Lines Ltd.), Montréal, Québec, Canada, operated one Stearman: 1930 Stearman 4-EM Senior Speedmail, c/n 4010, CF-ASF, “20”, previously owned and operated by Canadian Airways
• Canadian Airways (Canadian Airways Limited), Montréal, Québec, Canada operated four Stearmans: 1930 Stearman 4-EM Senior Speedmail, c/n 4016, CF-AMB; 1930 Stearman 4-EM Senior Speedmail, c/n 4017, CF-AMC; 1932 Stearman 4-EM Senior Speedmail, c/n 4028, CF-ASE; and CF-ASF on its airmail routes in Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Québec in the early 1930s
• he was hoping to secure the registration marks from one of those aircraft, but, unable to do so, s/n 75-003 will fly again as CF-KTE (Kevin, wife Tracy, and son Evan; or KiTE for short)
• N68492 (CF-KTE reserved), Kevin Maher, Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada in 1994
• based at Duncan Airport (DUQ/CAM3), Duncan, Vancouver Island, B.C.
• Kevin Maher pilots Boeing 777s for Air Canada
• currently undergoing long, thorough, detailed, complete restoration

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[2010 Nikon D3100 14.2 megapixel DX-format DSLR Nikon F-mount camera, s/n 5119118; Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR lens, s/n 53867376, with 52mm UV(C) filter]

  

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, June 2013

1948 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 17, CF-OBZ, BCFP

1948 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Mk. I, c/n 17, CF-OBZ, BCFP somewhere on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada sometime in early to mid 1970s.

1948 de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. I, c/n 17, CF-OBZ, BCFP (British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.

• overall gloss white finish with gloss blue propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin red borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, vertical stabilizer, & ventral tail fin, and matt black anti-glare panel

• powered by one 450-hp Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B Wasp Junior supercharged nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed two-blade Hamilton Standard propeller and propeller spinner

• pilot, six passengers, STOL (short take-off and landing) utility transport

• high-wing strut-braced monoplane; outboard single-slotted droop aileron interconnected with inboard single-slotted trailing-edge flap, and single strut on each wing

• forward crew door with strutbar steps on float struts on each side, including pilot’s intermediate strutbar step, centre cabin door with strutbar steps on float struts on each side, aft baggage compartment with baggage door on port side

• porthole rear cabin windows

• Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral tail fin

History:

• built by The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, Downsview, Ontario, Canada at Downsview Airport (YZD/CYZD), Downsview, Ontario

• delivered as CF-OBZ to Department of Lands and Forests, Ontario Provincial Air Service, Province of Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie Airport (YAM/CYAM), Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada on September 10, 1948 and cancelled in late 1964

• based at Sudbury/Ramsey Lake Water Aerodrome, Sudbury, Ontario

• some early production built with no porthole rear cabin windows

• Edo 58-4580 straight floats, ventral tail fin

• overall gloss yellow finish with gloss black cheat line along fuselage and matt black anti-glare panel

• CF-OBZ, Laurentide Financial Corporation Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada circa 1967 and cancelled prior to certificate of airworthiness renewal on February 10, 1971

• overall gloss white finish with gloss turquoise propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin black borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, & tail stripe with thin black borders on vertical stabilizer, black fuselage underside, and matt black anti-glare panel

• propeller spinner

• porthole rear cabin windows

• Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral tail fin

• CF-OBZ, Cattermole-Tretheway Contractors Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada sometime prior to certificate of airworthiness renewal on February 10, 1971 and cancelled prior to certificate of airworthiness renewal on November 5, 1973

• titled CATTERMOLE-TRETHEWAY on rear fuselage; overall gloss white finish with gloss turquoise propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin black borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, & tail stripe with thin black borders on vertical stabilizer, black fuselage underside, and matt black anti-glare panel

• ? Cattermole-Tretheway Contractors Ltd. acquired by Finning Tractor & Equipment Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada (Caterpillar dealership)

• CF-OBZ, BCFP (British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.), Vancouver, B.C., Canada prior to certificate of airworthiness renewal on November 5, 1973

• based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C.

• overall gloss white finish with gloss blue propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin red borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, vertical stabilizer, & ventral tail fin, and matt black anti-glare panel

• re-registered as C-FOBZ in 1976

• gloss white vertical stabilizer with gloss blue rudder

• Edo 58-4580 straight floats, ventral tail fin

• overall gloss white finish with gloss dark green propeller spinner, around engine cowling into cheat line & thin yellow borders along fuselage, wingtips, horizontal stabilizer tips, & ventral tail fin, and matt black anti-glare panel

• Edo 58-4580 straight floats

• Edo 58-4580 amphibious floats, ventral tail fin

• BCFP (British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.) acquired by Fletcher Challenge Ltd., Auckland, North Island, New Zealand in 1987 and merged in 1988 to form Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd.

• C-FOBZ, Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd., South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on September 27, 1988 and cancelled on January 31, 1994

• based at South Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)

• overall gloss white finish with aluminum propeller spinner, three shades of blue cheat lines along fuselage, three shades of blue bands & gloss black on upper rear fuselage, blue leading-edge, wingtips, & horizontal stabilizer tips, three shades of blue tail stripe on vertical stabilizer tip, gloss black fuselage underside, and matt black anti-glare panel

• Edo 679-4930 straight floats, Kenmore floatplane finlets on horizontal stabilizer

• propeller spinner removed

• C-FOBZ, Timberwest Forest Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Canada on January 31, 1994 and cancelled on May 14, 1999

• based at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3), Tyee Spit, Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C.

• gloss black ventral tail strake

• propeller spinner

• Edo 679-4930 straight floats, ventral tail strake

• titled TimberWest on rear fuselage; overall gloss white finish with gloss green finish on upper half of fuselage

• C-FOBZ, Rush Air Ltd., Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on May 14, 1999 and cancelled on January 29, 2001

• based at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3)

• C-FOBZ, Siskin Holdings Ltd., Campbell River, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada on February 12, 2001

• based at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3)

• ? accident at Campbell River Seaplane Base (CAE3) sometime about 2002, ? flipped over

• ? undergoing rebuild by Jim Hayton, Sedro Woolley, Washington, USA

• ? slow rebuild or ? stored

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35mm roll film camera, s/n 86125; Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319]

© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1973 
© Copyright words and photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, January 2015

1957 Bell 47G-2, c/n 2425, CF-LRD, Okanagan Helicopters

1957 Bell 47G-2, c/n 2425, CF-LRD, Okanagan Helicopters with BCFP’s Web Binion and four unidentified men at BCFP’s Caycuse Camp, Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada sometime in spring 1964.

1957 Bell 47G-2, c/n 2425, CF-LRD, Okanagan Helicopters (Okanagan Helicopters Ltd.), Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada, based at Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)

• titled Okanagan on saddle-mounted external fuel tanks; overall gloss yellow finish; in Okanagan Helicopters colour scheme (1947)

• powered by one vertically-mounted 220-hp Avco Lycoming VO-435-A1D six-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, fan-cooled piston engine with two-blade main rotor & stabilizer bar and two-blade tail rotor on starboard side

• side-by-side pilot and two passengers, light helicopter utility transport

• hydraulic-assist controls, twin saddle-mounted external fuel tanks, exposed welded-tube tail boom with synchronized horizontal stabilizer and end plates, and tail skid as tail rotor guard

• full “goldfish bowl” bubble canopy, removable forward cabin door on each side, external cargo outriggers on each side, provision for external belly sling hook

• fixed skid twin landing gear with air-inflated nylon floats for amphibious operations from land, water, marsh, ice, or snow

History:

• built by Bell Helicopter Corporation, Bell Aircraft Corporation, Hurst, near Fort Worth, Texas, USA at Bell Helicopter Plant 1, Bell Helicopter Hurst Heliport (0TE2), Hurst, near Fort Worth, Texas

• delivered as CF-LRD to Okanagan Helicopters (Okanagan Helicopters Ltd.), Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada in 1957

• based at Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR)

• titled Okanagan on saddle-mounted external fuel tanks; overall gloss yellow finish; in Okanagan Helicopters colour scheme (1947)

• converted to 47G-2A, c/n 2425-20, powered by one vertically-mounted 240-hp Avco Lycoming VO-435-A1E six-cylinder, horizontally-opposed, fan-cooled piston engine with two-blade main rotor & stabilizer bar and two-blade tail rotor on starboard side

• N74094, ?, USA but further details unknown

• HK-1302E, ?, Colombia but further details unknown

• ? possibly Helicol (Helicópteros Nacionales de Colombia SA), Bogotá, Colombia

• cancelled in ?

• fate unknown

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35mm roll film camera, s/n 86125; Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319]

© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1964 

© Copyright words and photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, January 2015

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

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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

Alberni Inlet, Nitinat, Caycuse, Youbou, and Crofton on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada in early summer 1969

Likely from the port window of an early-model Cessna 180 or 185 Skywagon floatplane, judging by the following wing strut and cockpit views, and comparing them to photographs on the internet. Note the apparent absence of the V-strut inside of the cockpit windshield. V-struts were in use in floatplane configuration for extra strengthening.

Looking north, crossing eastbound the lower end of Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island, B.C.

Looking north, about two-thirds en route between Alberni Inlet and the western end of Cowichan Lake.

Kissinger Lake immediately west of BCFP’s Camp 3 at Nitinat, a few miles west of Cowichan Lake.

Log booms on the south shore at the western end of Cowichan Lake.

BCFP’s Camp 6 mill and townsite at Caycuse on the south shore near the western end of Cowichan Lake.

BCFP’s Youbou townsite on the left and the mill in centre foreground, on the north shore of Cowichan Lake.

Looking south over the Island Highway (Trans-Canada Highway 1), just north of Westholme Road in middleground on the left, the E&N (Esquimalt & Nanaimo) Railway line running diagonally to foreground in the left corner, Mount Prevost in background to the middle right, and Mount Sicker the nearer peak.

Banking left to land in Osborne Bay at BCFP’s (British Columbia Forest Products) Crofton Pulp and Paper Mill, Crofton, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada in early summer 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 photographs by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011