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United States Air Force: 233 747-200F (Freighter) March 10, 1972 Lufthansa: November 19, 1991 Nippon Cargo Airlines 73 747-200C (Convertble) April 30, 1973 World Airways: September 26, 1988 Martinair: 13 747-200M (Combi) March 7, 1975 Air Canada: April 5, 1988 Iberia Airlines: 74 Total 747-200 Series: 393 747SP March 5, 1976 Pan American World ...
Air Canada's Douglas DC-8-63 fleet was withdrawn from passenger service in 1983. Six of these were converted to DC-8-73 with new CFM engines and converted to freighters (DC-8-73F) in 1984 and retained for use by Air Canada Cargo eventually being sold off to DHL between 1990 and 1994. Air Canada's Douglas DC-9-15s were used up to 1968. One DC-9 ...
MK Airlines Flight 1602 was an MK Airlines Boeing 747-200F cargo flight on a flight from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Nova Scotia, Canada, to Zaragoza Airport, Spain. It crashed on take-off in 2004, killing the crew of 7. It was the fourth accident for MK Airlines, as well as the deadliest. [1]
An Air Canada 747-200M combi aircraft. Some now defunct airlines from embattled nations flew combi aircraft. Air Rhodesia had a Boeing 720 combi that it operated when Rhodesia was a nation, acquired in 1967 and flown till shortly after the dissolution of the nation and state airline.
Boeing 747-200 Jetliner New York–JFK: 10,854 km (6,744 mi; 5,861 nmi) 13:50 ... Air Canada Express (op by Jazz Aviation) AC 8103: Bombardier CRJ-700 Jetliner
The same kind of bomb, which CP Air staff had improperly allowed to be loaded on domestic flight CP Air 60 to Toronto and there transferred onto Air India Flight 182, exploded one hour after the Narita explosion, killing everyone onboard AI182, with the 747-200 crashing into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland.
Air Canada's predecessor, Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA), was created by federal legislation as a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway (CNR) on 11 April 1937. [16] [17] The newly created Department of Transport under Minister C. D. Howe desired an airline under government control to link cities on the Atlantic coast to those on the Pacific coast.
A Nationair Canada Boeing 747-200 at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in April 1990 in the new livery.. Nationair Canada operated charter as well as scheduled passenger services in the late 1980s and early 1990s from bases in Montreal and Toronto, with seasonal bases in Quebec City as well as flights out of Hamilton, Ontario to London, England.