Boeing 737-200Combi, ready to depart from the main terminal at Montreal Dorval. the side cargo door in the front of the fuselage can clearly be seen. The airplane was originally delivered to Air Gabon as TR-LXL in 1979 ! It was already a Combi aircraft back then. Air Inuit now has 4 B737-200 aircraft and use them mainly on routes to remote destinations in the extreme north of Canada.

Highlight of our day, a Boeing 737-200 blasting off from the runway in Montreal. C-FFAL was build in 1979 for Air Tanzania. First serving as 5H-MRK. Later it was flying for Nationwide with a South African Registration ZS-OWM. Since 2005 it operates here in Canada as C-FFAL. Now serving the Raglan Mine. Raglan is owned by the Glencore corporation. The Raglan mine sits upon one of the world's finest sulphide nickel deposits in the vast Ungava Peninsula, in Nunavik, some 1800 km north of Montréal. They produce not only nickel but also in smaller quantities copper and cobalt.

Arriving for static display at the 85' March show was "GATOR 93" T-43A from Mather AFB

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ex SAA ZS-SII (photographer not known)

D-ABCE was hijacked on 13th October 1977 by four militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine while en route from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt am Main. The hijackers diverted the flight to several locations before ending in Mogadishu, Somalia, where the crisis concluded in the early morning of 18th October 1977 when West German counter-terrorism unit GSG 9 and the Somali Armed Forces stormed the aircraft, rescuing all 87 passengers and four crew members. The captain was killed by the hijackers. To N302XV, F-GFVJ, 9M-PMQ, PT-MTB. Preserved Dornier Museum, Friedrichshafen.

Delivered to Britannia Airways as G-AVRN in 1969. Leased to Transavia as PH-TVG from 12/74 to 03/75 and returned as G-AVRN. To Viscount Air Service as N173PL in 1993. Reregistered as N313VA in 1994. To Grand International Airways as RP-C8890 in 1997. Withdrawn from use at Manila in 1998. Preserved at King Bridge Hotel in Taichung, Taiwan from 2016. Still there in 11/19. Gone by 07/20.

Delivered to Braathens as LN-SUD April 1973. Sold and leased back as N197SS August 1988 as part of Braathens' financing deal for 737-400s and -500s. To Time Air Sweden as SE-DLD April 1991, leased to Sudan Airways September 1992-March 1993, to Air One December 1993. To Magnicharters as XA-SWL December 1994 and Aero Continente January 2002 as OB-1751. To Air Guinea as 3C-LQA December 2004, lastly to LAC-Lignes Aériennes Congolaises as 9Q-CSV September 2006. Withdrawn from use at Kinshasa-N'Djili in 2015 and broken up. Seen here in the second livery carried on the 737-200s with the red and blue stripes below the windows.

India's only active B737-200 aircraft restaurant preserved in Rajasthan's Khatoo. VT-EGG was once the lifeline of Indian Airlines and Alliance Air fleet from early 1980s till 2007, post that it was converted to cargo and served till 2014 before retiring. In 2019, it found its new home in Khatoo and as of, EGG is doing its post-retirement duty by serving the devotees of Khatu Shyam Ji as the famous restaurant of the small city.

Delivered to Braathens as LN-SUD April 1973. Sold and leased back as N197SS August 1988 as part of Braathens' financing deal for 737-400s and -500s. To Time Air Sweden as SE-DLD April 1991, leased to Sudan Airways September 1992-March 1993, to Air One December 1993. To Magnicharters as XA-SWL December 1994 and Aero Continente January 2002 as OB-1751. To Air Guinea as 3C-LQA December 2004, lastly to LAC-Lignes Aériennes Congolaises as 9Q-CSV September 2006. Withdrawn from use at Kinshasa-N'Djili in 2015 and broken up. Seen here in the first livery carried on the 737-200s with the red and blue stripes over the windows. Photographer unknown

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Delivered to Sabena as OO-SDJ in 1975. To European Aviation as G-BZKP in 2000 then to Kenya Airways as 5Y-KQN in 2003, Delta Connection as 5Y-JAP in 2007 and to Vision Air Pakistan as AP-BKE in 2014. Withdrawn from use at Johannesburg in 2016 and scrapped in 2019.

Small Comair titles n the nose. Unknown photographer

Small Regional Air (Kenya) logo on the nose. Unknown photographer