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Trans-Canada Air Lines (also known as TCA in English, and Air Canada in French) was a Canadian airline and operated as the country's flag carrier. Its corporate headquarters were in Montreal, Quebec. Its first president was Gordon Roy McGregor.

The airline operated under its original name from 1937 to 1965, when it was officially renamed Air Canada.

Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 861 Video

www.henrytenby.com In the early 1960s, the world's airlines were transitioning from piston and turboprop aircraft to jet-powered aircraft. The dawn of the golden age of jet travel had arrived and global travel was becoming a mass, worldwide phenomena. Everyone wanted to travel by jet, and the world's airlines promoted their jet services by every means possible, including promotional cine films. This DVD takes the viewer back to that magic age with three period films featuring the three golden jets of the era, the Boeing 707, the Douglas DC-8, and the Convair 880. Chapter 1) This early 1960s film follows a Trans-Canada Air Lines DC-8-42 and her flighdeck crew operating TCA flight 884 from snowy Montreal down to Montego Bay, Jamaica. This film features exterior footage of the DC-8 as well as live flightdeck footage including engine starts, taxi, take-off, inflight, and landing. (Colour restored as best as possible - 16 minutes) Chapter 2) In the early 1960s, the DC-8 and the Convair 880 were Japan Air Lines' front line long-range aircraft. This early 1960s film opens with busy jet scenes at Haneda Airport. When night falls, the JAL DC-8-50 is towed into the hangar for her routine inspection. With the first light of morning, the JAL maintenance crew perform an engine run on the DC-8. After more Haneda jet action, the film takes us for an up close visit to a heavy maintenance overhaul on a JAL Convair 880, which is followed by a test flight. (Black and white - 24 minutes <b>...</b>
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Trans-Canada Air Lines Fleet
Aircraft In Service Passengers Years in service
Vickers Viscount 48 1955 � 1974
Vickers Vanguard 108 1961 � 1972
Canadair North Star DC-4M-2 20 44 1946 � 1961
Douglas DC-8-40, 50, 8 176 (economy), 124 (mixed) 1960 � 1983
Lockheed 10A Electra 5 10 1937 � 1941
Lockheed L-1049C/E/G/H Super Constellation 14 53-75 1954 � 1963
Bristol Freighter 3 freight only; 2 crew 1953 � 1955
Douglas DC-3 27 21 1945 � 1963
Avro Lancastrian - for freight/mail service and priority passengers 9 10 1943 � 1947
Lockheed 18-08 Lodestar 15 14 1941 � 1949
Lockheed Super Electra 14H2 (14-08) 16; 12 as 14-08 after conversion 10 1938 � 1949
Boeing-Stearman Model 75 - as trainer only 3 2 1937 � 1939

Defunct airlines of Canada

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