Pictured taxying out from the South Terminal.

CP Air's fourth DC-8-63, delivered June 16, 1968 and leased right away to Flying Tigers for a year (N624FT). Skybus service was a part of the 1970s fare wars with Air Canada on weekly flights from Toronto to Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary. The aircraft was stored is Las Vegas in late 1982 until sold to Worldways Canada in early 1983. Registered to Aerolease Financial Group as N782AL December 28, 1990 and converted to a freighter. Leased to Air Transport International, the freighter crashed on a second take-off attempting a three engine ferry flight on February 16, 1995.

This 727 is back in familiar territory as it was delivered to CP Air as CF-CUR on March 10, 1971. Traded back to Boeing in March 1977, it was leased for a time to Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano as CP-1339. Returned, the airliner became a biz jet for cosmetics giant Revlon as N767RV in October 1978. At the time of uploading, the aircraft is flying with winglets owned by American businessman and classical music composer Gordon Getty and his wife Ann.

Just one of many seaplanes to be seen on the South side of YVR.

This 737 was delivered December 12, 2011. It was painted in American's new livery April 8, 2016.

Pictured taxying to stand after landing on rw08L.

Struck off strength April 86; to Turkey for spare parts but later returned to flight status as 62-737.

Lovely scheme on this visitor from the San Juan Islands (WA not PR!).

Getting a touch up on the door stripe.

Terr-Air Rotary was also known as Territorial Airways. This Model 500D was sold to Rilpa Enterprises in 1986 and it moved on to the USA in 2010. It's still current as N519PA at the time of uploading.

Horizon was a launch customer for the Dornier 328 with this being one twelve delivered between 1993 and 1995. All were returned to Dornier by 1997.

New type in Vancouver being demonstrated to local helicopter operators. It was later delivered to Quasar Helicopters, subsequently re-imported into the USA and finally written off in Afganistan (2010).

Being prepared for delivery to Brazil only days after arriving in Vancouver as C-GCPC from McDonnell Douglas.

The Doobie Liner visits Vancouver. Originally delivered to Eastern Airlines in 1952, it went on to fly with Mohawk, Ozark and Piedmont before becoming the Doobie Brothers Band touring aircraft.

Flying first with New York Airways from 1968 - 1977, this S-61 moved to Canada around 1979 for Okanagan. Later flying with Canadian Helicopters, Coulson Aircrane and Sunwest Helicopters, there was also a 2 year stint with the State of Utah (N614RM) from March 1994 - 1996 . After returning from the USA the helicopter received the HeliPro Shortsky conversion which shortened the fuselage by 50 inches and improved the lifting capability by 1,000 lbs. Sold to Carson Helicopters as N448JS in 2011.

Delivered to Pacific Western on September 5, 1979 and stayed through the mergers with CP Air and Air Canada. Stored at Mojave in 2003 and re-registered as N290TR.

Delivered new to Canadian in 1990 and would be the first aircraft to wear Air Canada's new frosted leaf color scheme in 2004.

Starting out as a 1953 440 for United Airlines, this Convair was with Lake Central Airlines when it was converted to a 580 in December 1966. Merged with Allegheny Airlines in 1968, it was withdrawn and stored at Marana, AZ in the mid 70s until sold to Great Lakes in August 1976. Renamed Air Ontario in 1981, the Convair left Canada in 1988. Written off during a maintenance ground run when the main undercarriage collapsed and the propeller damaged the fuselage at Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport, Tx January 18, 2018. It was registered XA-TRB with Air Tribe.

After rolled out in early 1969, several sales of this Twin Otter to the USA fell through and the aircraft was delivered to Aeronaves de Mayab as XA-BOL December 19, 1969. West Coast Air Services bought it in September 1979, but it never entered service. It was sold to Contact Airways in April 1980 and photographed just before the titles were painted out and the tail logo became a red circle. While flying on floats with Maldivian Air Taxi as 8Q-MAG, the aircraft was written off (with no injuries) when it struck the water after a photo shoot at the Halaveli Island Resort, Maldives June 2, 2009.

This former Air Ontario Dash 8 would be sold in August 2004 to Type 72 Aviation. Since 2006, it's been with Aircraft Leasing Services working for the United Nations as 5Y-STN.