Alberta Aviation Museum's Boeing 737 200 series Ferry Flight

Nice to see a little pocket rocket back in the air!

It’s nice they took the trouble to make her airworthy for the ferry flight. A lot of other places would have scrapped it and just found another 737…there are plenty around.
There can’t be many 737s on display, I know the Museum of Flight in Seattle has the prototype….

Sorry everyone for not replying sooner but it has been a very hectic time.

J Boyle

The reason it was so important to save this aircraft is the specific historic provenance.

It is an original PWA aircraft having come into service at the Edmonton Downtown airport in 1979, it’s history from there to it’s retirement is really the story of Alberta and the Jet Age.

It was far too valuable, historically, to lose.

As far as 737s on display there are not many…that I know of:
– Seattle Museum of Flights as you mentioned
– The Alaskan Aviation Museum in Anchorage
– Ours

and ours as evidenced is the only one that was maintained and kept operational (more or less) and running.

Ours has been an important part of Education and trades programs as well as toured by tens of thousands.

Thanks for the kind words all.

Tom

Very nice to see Pacific Western in the air again. Always enjoyed flying with them.

12 minutes..

RAW cockpit video of the takeoff and landing….

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Must have been an incredibly short flight!

It’s nice they took the trouble to make her airworthy for the ferry flight. A lot of other places would have scrapped it and just found another 737…there are plenty around.
There can’t be many 737s on display, I know the Museum of Flight in Seattle has the prototype….