Six months after the Silver Dart becomes the first powered airplane to fly in Canada, pilot Charles Willard flies the Glenn Curtiss Golden Flyer in Toronto. The first flight lasted all of 10 seconds.
Trans Canada Air Lines flew its first regular service, on the Vancouver, BC – Seattle Washington route, in a Lockheed 10A Electra.
This picture of the restored Electra CF-TCC was taken in 2007 at the Toronto Wings & Wheels Heritage Festival. TCC still flies and looks (and sounds) great.
The Boeing KC135-A tanker completes its first flight. Still in service today, the KC135 is the primary refueling platform for the US Air Force.
Air France, France’s national airline, is formed. Today Air France and KLM are both part of a European holding company making the it the largest airline company in the world.
Photo taken at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris. I’m onboard an Air France A340 as another one waits.
A Canadair Sabre-5 flies 2,740 miles in five hours and thirty seconds (Vancouver-Gimli-Halifax).
Photo is of the restored Sabre-5 from Vintage Wings of Canada taken at CFB Trenton.
The first ambulance flight in Northern Canada takes place when W.R. Maxwell in a Curtis HS-2L flew J.W. Thompson from Moose Factory to Remi Lake (near Cochrane) Ontario.
Photo taken at Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa showing G-CAAC, which flew the first ever “bush flight” in 1919.
First flight of the Boeing Vertol CH-46C Labrador helicopter.
This aircraft is a twin-engine, tandem-rotor search and rescue (SAR) helicopter used by the Canadian Forces from 1963 until 2004. It was a variant of the Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight designed and built in the United States. A search and rescue version was purchased by the Royal Canadian Air Force in the early 1960s and became known as the Labrador. Soon after, the Canadian Army acquired a troop and cargo version known as the Voyageur. In the mid-1970s, these army machines were replaced by CH-147 Chinook heavy lift and transport helicopters and the Voyageurs were transferred to the air force when Air Command was formed in 1975. They joined the Labradors on search and rescue duties and all were modified to a common search and rescue standard.
Picture above was taken at the Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa. From their website :
Labrador #301, the first to enter service with the Canadian Forces and the last to retire, was delivered to the Canada Aviation Museum in July, 2004 and marked the retirement from active service of the illustrious Labrador fleet. Its place in Canada’s national aeronautical collection is a tribute to the men and women of the Search and Rescue community who risk their lives on a daily basis to save others.
The Anik D1 satellite is launched by Telesat Canada to provide television signals across the country. A Hughes Aircraft HS376, Anik (which means “little brother” in Inuktitut) D1 was retired in 1991.
Telesat Canada launched a number of Anik models between 1972 and 2007 with 3 still in operation. Launch vehicles included Delta, Ariane and Proton/Breeze-M rockets and 4 were launched from the Space Shuttles – Discovery, Challenger and Columbia.
A Ford Trimotor (similar to the one above) crashes into the Pacific near Port Townsend, Washington. The airliner was operated by British Columbia Airways and flew the Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle run. The service had only started 9 days earlier.
Amelia Earhart begins the first solo, nonstop flight by a woman across the United States from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey. The flight took 19 hours and 5 minutes, setting a women’s distance record of 2,447 miles.
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