Aircraft Photo of CF-MAL | Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Srs2/222 | Midwest Aviation | AirHistory.net #264989
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:CF-MAL
Aircraft Original Type:Avro 748
Aircraft Generic Type:Hawker Siddeley HS-748 (Andover)
Aircraft Version:Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Srs2/222
C/n (msn):1587
Operator Titles:Midwest Aviation
Location
City / Airport:Winnipeg - James Armstrong Richardson InternationalMap
Region / Country:Manitoba, Canada
Airport Codes:ICAO: CYWG   IATA: YWG   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:9 August 1968
Photo by:Tim Martin
Photo ID: 264989
Photo Comment

This was the first 748 on the Canadian register having been bought from Channel Airways (G-ATEJ) and delivered in December 1967. In the 1980s, when the used prices came down, Canadian operators went for them in a big way as they were ideal for northern service, being ruggedly built and certified for gravel runways. Nothing could touch them until the ATR became affordable, so operators flew them unpressurized to compensate for locally designed large freight doors and to stretch out the airframe fatigue life. The thing that finally did them in was the Dart engines.

This photo is copyright © Tim Martin, and may not be used or published in any way without permission.

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