CF-RNR continued…
Open for business circa 1999 as the “Super Connie” bar/sandwich shop; those glazed two-storey lobbies mar the port side view just a bit…
Cockpit of CF-RNR, looking quite decent…
Cabin, fitted out like a railway dining car; a nice oaken bar was at the other end; note the period Connie-related magazine ads…
View over the port wing, note the former Millardair base in the background, complete with one of the grounded C-54s.
Stay tuned for more “Supers”…
S.
Here’s a sort of timeline of Canada’s last Super Connie, CF-RNR ex-World Wide Airways, previously TCA’s CF-TGE…
Back in the day at the Musee des Retrouvailles in rural Quebec; try and spot the replica engine cowlings…:rolleyes:
A few years later (circa 1996), as an offbeat conference room at the Regal Constellation Hotel (how apt) near Toronto’s Pearson airport…
Canada Day 1998, another move saw CF-RNR take up residence at the Pearson airport GA entrance; only briefly could one get an unobstructed port side view like this…
Next chapter to follow…
S.
A Few Good Connies…
Got those propliner/skytruck pix onto P’bucket…here are a few examples of the sleek and graceful Connie.
St-Jean, Quebec, September 1983; Conifair’s C-121A budworm sprayer C-GXKO…surely the best-looking bug-spray can ever made! This later became the celebrated “MATS Connie”, of which more momentarily…
Conifair’s other C-121A, C-GXKR. (Three DC-6s and two C-54s were there as well but those are beyond the scope of a Connie thread)…
Former C-GXKO, C-121A 48-609, in her later guise as Vern Raburn’s superb MATS Connie N494TW. Seen at Geneseo NY, 1993…yes it is possible to fly a Connie off grass…
Here’s N494TW rolling-out on landing at Elmira, NY, in the late 90s.
Up where she belonged…N494TW in her element…what a shame this is a sight that will not be seen again now that this Connie is static.
More a bit later…
S.
June 2006, Aeroport Jean-Lesage, Quebec City, Quebec…
Northern Lights Ltd. Hunter F.58, C-GZIC
Two of NL’s spares ships, stored in bits in the open; bit wrenching to see the ex-CWH F.58, Swiss AF J-4006, on the left…anyone know which Hunter the red and grey one is?
S.
Here’s the ex-Swiss AF FB.6 “beaknose” (J-1145?? I forget) that masquerades as a 400 (Aux) Sqn RCAF F.3 at CWH. Usually she’s indoors, but this was taken during FlyFest week last June, most of the jets were out in the sun…
…CWH used to have a genuine ex-RCAF F.3 (17020) but it went out west in an exchange many moons ago. It was pretty ratty by the time CWH obtained it, whereas the Swiss one was very presentable even before gaining glossy new pseudo-RCAF paintwork. Occasionally the idea gets floated of making the FB.6 taxiable, but the museum has many other potential projects to tackle before that…
S.
Here we are…three angles on the frail-looking Silver Dart replica, seen at CWH a couple weeks ago the day after its first test flight.
S.
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