The Air Canada Vanguard Passes Into History

Air Canada Vanguard last flight October 31 1971

FLASHBACK 1971: AIR CANADA CAPTAIN J. R. DESMARIAS, WHO HAS 1,000 HOURS ON VANGUARDS, MOURNS THE PASSING OF THIS BEAUTIFUL BIRD CLICK HERE to read about the Air Canada Viscount Last Flight   It was 0134 hours, Sunday, October 31, 1971. At Montreal International Airport, the brightly lit ramp was quiet. Because of the 11 […]

Big “Chip Off A Popular Block” – Trans Canada Airlines New Vickers Vanguard

TCA Vanguard inflight 1960

(CLICK HERE for Air Canada Vanguard retirement report October 31, 1971) The following article appeared in the June 1959 issue of In Flight, by Trans Canada Air Lines The small boy in the back row of the schoolroom, carefully folding a page from his scribbler into a paper airplane, may be following in his father’s […]