Thanks to all of you!!!

A huge amount of information about the long nose Superfreighters life span.

In the day I had no idea that I was crewing on the last one flying!! It is also possible that I am the last person alive to have handled the controls of this aircraft as well.

It is a sad chapter that the end of the aircraft took 2 lives with it. They were both very much family men and I am sure it left a big hole for those who loved them.

Regards,

Truc

Hi Truc,

I flew ‘QWJ as Don Boone’s co-pilot a few times. The first time was on the fourth and fifth of March 1974. We did 2 trips to God’s Narrows on the 4th and one more on the 5th. I forget what we were hauling.
After that Brian Anderson split his time between flying as Don’s co-pilot and flying the Aztec, CF-SAD.
Don checked me out on the 180 with wheels/skis and I flew it for the rest of the month. When Bud got back from North Carolina he put me in the right seat of the DC-3 (again).

The last time I flew with Don on ‘QWJ was on the 17th of May 1974 – two weeks before the crash. We flew out of Churchill up to a couple of frozen lakes – Virginia Lake and Munro Lake – and then back to Churchill.

I got to fly it in cruise and taxi it a bit but never got to do a takeoff or landing. I also never got the endorsement on my license which bugged me at the time.

I stumbled on to this thread when I `Googled’ CF-QWJ. Great information on the Mk 32.