Airliner Classics - July 2018

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T : The Britten Norman Trislander recently bowed out of UK service after more than 40 years in operation. To mark the occ ...

24 Contents 6 Wa rd a i r From Fox Moth to Airbus A 16 West African Airways Commercial links with the colonies 24 Trislander BN’ ...

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Wa r d a i r In 1953 Max Ward formed his own airline with a float-equipped Fox Moth. It soon expanded and would serve 26 destina ...

In March 1981 an order was placed for six A310s but the recession meant the order was cancelled. Max Ward later said of Airbus, ...

noticed that Max had Polaris Air Charter written on the side of the Fox Moth, but under the revised regulations, a charter licen ...

A replacement DC-6 was sourced from KLM (PH-DFN became CF-CPI) with a three-year conditional sales agreement costing $300,000, w ...

In 1967 the airline took a loan from the Industrial Development Bank to fund a Boeing 707 with two spare JT3D turbofan engines. ...

In October 1978, Wardair maintenance moved from its birthplace, Edmonton, Alberta to Toronto, Ontario. There were many reasons t ...

Wardair was hit hard but on June 30 the Canadian government gave it the OK to resume flights. In February 1980, the government a ...

Wardair’s second 747 was added in December It took on the 727’s old CF-FUN registration and was named after the ATB’s Romeo Vac ...

scheduled routes between Canada and the UK. By the end of 1985 Wardair had carried its most ever passengers (1,567,000) all thi ...

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A s soon as World War Two ended in Europe the British Government moved to restore aviation links throughout the empire. Just a w ...

DH Dove VR-NIB in f light. Before entering service the f irst WAAC Does spent a month on proving f lights and charters, includi ...

DH Dove VR-NAG sports its Skypower logo before wearing the full WAAC livery. Tragically, this aircraft would be lost in a crash ...

Doe VR-NEW at rest on one of the many stop-offs on a typical WAAC route. This aircraft suffered a wheels-up landing at Lagos on ...

as agent for BOAC in West Africa, its Traffic Department handling BOAC’s aircraft and passengers at Lagos, Kano and Accra as wel ...