Early morning scene at what in March 1983 was known as Jan Smuts International Airport in Johannesburg. Note the various liveries on the South African Airways aircraft. The early 1980s marked the introduction of the third orange tail livery as seen on the second A300. In the background is an Air Botswana and two Comair Friendships as well as a Comair DC-3.

Wartime strip built by the US Navy and used by USN and RNZAF units. Abandoned at the end of World War II and now reclaimed by jungle. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Malden Island airstrip was built in 1956-57 to support British nuclear weapons tests at Christmas Island (now Kiritmati). The uninhabited island was a site for test instrumentation and three bombs were detonated a short distance off the island in 1957. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

The museum carrier USS Hornet is on the left in the picture

Hobsonville was an RNZAF seaplane and landplane base. At the bottom of the photo is the arched roofed Sunderland hangar and to its right the Catalina hangar. Both still exist. The two saw-tooth-roofed hangars further to the right also still exist. The hangar above and to the right of them is gone. Wartime steps have been taken to camouflage the base with roads across runways, painted hangars and concealed hardstanding. The seaplane base closed in 1967 when Sunderlands were withdrawn and helicopter operations ended in 2002. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

A wartime airstrip built by the French and greatly expanded by the Americans. A base in 1942-43 for USAAF B-17s, B-25s and B-26 and RNZAF Hudsons. Main role appears to have been as a staging post for aircraft heading to Australia or to the frontline in New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Disused in peacetime and overgrown with vegetation. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

In 2008, ExelTech Aerospace built this built this 150,000 sq ft. hangar and office building southeast of the button of Runway 24E at Montréal - Trudeau Airport (YUL) for its aircraft maintenance business. A unique aspect of the design is that it was the largest wooden hangar constructed in Canada in decades, featuring glued-laminated timber beams and columns and underlying glued-laminated timber beams. ExelTech went bankrupt in 2010 and in June of that year Bombardier bought the facility to increase its completion center capabilities for its Global 5000 and Global Express XRS business jets.

Kolkata's new Terminal at NSCBIA a few months after its inauguration by President Pranab Mukherjee in January 2013. Bengali alphabets and words are depicted on the ceiling.

Associated Aircraft Group (AAG) was founded in 1989 by Ray Altieri, John Agor and another partner to provide corporate and VIP helicopter charter services to clients in the New York City area from a base in Danbury, CT. In 1998, Sikorsky Aircraft purchased AAG to enter the fractional ownership business and established a new base at Dutchess County Airport which became a hub for S-76 ops and maintenance in the NE USA. In May 2021, Directional Aviation's OneSky Flight bought AAG from Sikorsky to add to its business aircraft portfolio which includes Flexjet, PrivateFly, FXAIR and Halo Aviation.

The Vancouver Harbour Heliport as seen looking east from the Canada Place cruise ship terminal. The heliport was floated into position on October 10, 1986 and is anchored to the shore by two footbridges, with a couple small buildings onshore serving at a passenger terminal and office. On this day, a Helijet S-76C+ was practicing Cat A vertical takeoffs from the heliport, which was very unusual to see. This was during a flurry of activity when Transport Canada told Helijet to stop landing a seven H1 hospital helipads in urban areas because of a preceived safety issue, which was soon resolved.

With the closure of the Bomarc missile base in 1971, RCAF La Macaza became the site of a prison in 1978 and the adjacent airport opened for civilian use. Growth of the Mont-Tremblant resort (40-60 minutes away by road) saw customs facilities added in 2000 and Porter Airlines introduce seasonal Dash 8-400 service from Toronto (YTZ). The airport has a small chalet-style terminal building along the east side of the airport, south of the prison. The La Macaza airport is home for a small number of light aircraft and hosts a large number of business aircraft during the winter and summer.

In 1962, the Royal Canadian Air Force opened at airport near the town of La Macaza, 110 miles north of Montreal, Quebec. The 6,000 ft runway was constructed as an emergency landing field and to provide access to a base next to the airport which became home for 447 Squadron armed with 29 nuclear tipped CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missiles which were part of NORAD defences (the other Bomarc unit was at RCAF North Bay, ON). The Bomarc was retired in 1971, the missile base turned into a prison in 1978, and the airport upgraded in 2000 to serve the nearby Mont-Tremblant ski resort.

In 1962, the Royal Canadian Air Force opened at airport near the town of La Macaza, 110 miles north of Montreal, Quebec. The 6,000 ft runway was constructed as an emergency landing field and to provide access to a base next to the airport which became home for 447 Squadron armed with 29 nuclear tipped CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missiles which were part of NORAD defences (the other Bomarc unit was at RCAF North Bay, ON). The Bomarc was retired in 1971, the missile base turned into a prison in 1978, and the airport upgraded in 2000 to serve the nearby Mont-Tremblant ski resort.

In 1951, Okanagan Helicopters of British Columbia started offering mountain flying training to helicopter pilots from its base at Vancouver Airport. In the mid-1950s the school moved to Penticton in the Okanagan Valley (which had better weather) when it won significant pilot training contracts from the RCAF, US Army and French military, followed by many other nations. This is the entrance to the school's $5 million, state-of-the-art building 20,000 sq ft facility which opened in 2012 which it was also rebranded "HNZ Topflight" by owner Canadian Helicopters. The HNZ name was later dropped.

In 1951, Okanagan Helicopters of British Columbia started offering mountain flying training to helicopter pilots from its base at Vancouver Airport. In the mid-1950s the school moved to Penticton in the Okanagan Valley (which had better weather) when it won significant pilot training contracts from the RCAF, US Army and French military, followed by many other nations. This is the school's 2,500-square-foot cramped quarters in August 2008. In 2012, Canadian Helicopters reined the school "Topflight" and moved into a new $5 million, state-of-the-art building 20,000 sq ft facility next door.

The Lake St. John Aerodrome was established more than 60 years ago by RCAF veterans as a combined airport and seaplane base 12.0 km; (7.5 mi) northeast of Orillia, Ontario. It's still one of the few combined land & seaplane facilities in southern Ontario.Current owner Clayton Smith has investing $2 million in airport improvements and built several new hangars. The photo shows the Orillia Aviation offices and maintenance hangar in December 2015 prior to a major renovation that added a restaurant. It's now known as the Orillia Rama Regional Airport (CNJ4/CNV6). https://flyorillia.ca/the-airport/

PH-BTH was delivered to KLM in October 1997. To Kenya Airways in July 2010 as 5Y-KYM. To Jambojet in March 2014. To Mid Africa Aviation in October 2015 as C5-MAE, immediately leased to Tarco Air.

This hangar was constructed by Canadian Pacific Air Lines in the late 1950s to maintain its fleet of Bristol Britannia airliners. It was later used by Pacific Western Airlines, AirBC and the aviation campus of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, which was the tenant when this photo was taken in August 2008. The wartime Boeing Aircraft of Canada PBY Catalina factory was once located to the south (left) of this hangar until demolished in the mid-1970s. Boeing's wartime PBY flight test hangar located to the east is still used by companies like Pacific Coastal and Aeroflite/Harbour Air.

Construction of the Trans-Canada Airway system commended in 1933 as an unemployment relief scheme during the Depression that employed 6,000 men building a coast-to-coast network of airports in Canada to facilitate air services. Most of the airports were constructed at 50 mile intervals with Emsdale airport(CNA4) constructed on the airway between Toronto and North Bay, Ontario. The airport and hangar date from 1935. The Royal Norwegian Air Force used Emsdale as a relief airport when it moved its flight training school from Toronto Island Airport to Muskoka Airport (YQA) in 1942.

Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has operated aircraft in Algonquin Park since the 1920s. The hangar at the Smoke Lake Airbase on the south side of Highway 60 was constructed in 1939. It has been the home of a DHC-2 Beaver or DHC-2 Mk III Turbo Beaver since the Ontario Provincial Air Service (OPAS) - the launch customer for both - took deliver of its first Beaver in 1948. Turbo Beaver C-FOEH has been based here for 20+ years, but is maintained at Muskoka Airport. With the introduction of amphibious floats in the 1990s, the docks at the air base were removed.