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Halifax: Halifax Stanfield International Airport: Focus city [9] Sydney: JA Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport [10] Canada : Hamilton: John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport: Terminated: London: London International Airport: Terminated: Ottawa: Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport: Focus city [11] Toronto: Toronto Pearson ...
Flight 314 departed Calgary at 12:32 on an estimated 23-minute flight to Cranbrook. This estimate was passed to Cranbrook by Calgary Air Traffic Control. [6] Cranbrook was not a controlled airport, and while it had an "aero-radio" station to provide weather and advisory information to aircraft, it had no control tower or air traffic controllers.
[7] [10] At 4:50 am on August 1, 1960 the first airplane landed there, a Vickers Viscount running the Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 400 between Montreal and Newfoundland. It was piloted by Halifax native W.E. Barnes. The first overseas flight arrived an hour later, travelling from London en route to Montreal. [11]
On February 11, 1978 Flight 314, a Pacific Western Airlines 737-200 on a scheduled flight from Edmonton, via Calgary and Cranbrook, to Castlegar Airport crashed at Cranbrook Airport. The aircraft crashed after thrust reversers did not fully stow following a rejected landing that was executed in order to avoid a snowplow. The crash killed 42 of ...
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The September 1947 ABC Guide shows 27 passenger flights a week west across the North Atlantic to the US and Canada on BOAC and other European airlines and 151 flights every two weeks on Pan Am, AOA, TWA, and TCA, 15 flights a week to the Caribbean and South America, plus three a month on Iberia and a Latécoère 631 six-engine flying boat every ...
Approximately 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) north [32] is the Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, which has recently completed its 12.5 million dollar expansion including the lengthening of its runway from 6,000 to 8,000 ft (1,800 to 2,400 m) [32] feet in order to accommodate a limited number of international flights and an ...
Newlyweds leaving for their honeymoon boarding a Trans-Canada Air Lines' plane, Montreal, 1946 Trans-Canada Air Lines Canadair North Star at London Heathrow in 1951 Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed Super Constellation arriving at London (Heathrow) in 1954 Lockheed Super Constellation showing colour of TCA markings; 1956, Montreal TCA Douglas DC ...