CP Air replaced an early order for five Boeing 767-200s with 737-300s. The aircraft were delivered in three different color schemes; one in CP Air orange, two in "Attache" colors for full business class service and two in the pictured new Canadian Pacific colors. The type was in service for a year, with C-FCPL sold to Guinness Peat Aviation and delivered to VASP on lease in December 1986 as PP-SNU. After later leases to Markair and Frontier Airlines, it ended up with KDAvia (EI-CHH) by 2005. The airliner was impounded in Paris September 4, 2009, stored at Lasham and broken up there in 2012

With smaller airline logos, C-FCRD was one of CP Air's aircraft that promoted the 1986 World's Fair in Vancouver.

MBB Helicopter Canada Limited was an official corporate sponsor of Expo 86 and provided the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communications in Vancouver, BC with a MBB BK 117A-3, C-GMCL, for VIP use. The helicopter was operated by ALC Airlift Corp. of Pitt Meadows, BC from the Expo 86 heliport on False Creek in downtown Vancouver. After Expo 86, ALC converted the BK117 to an air ambulance for on use on its STARS contract in Alberta.

CP Air's second DC-10 was originally christened "Empress of Sydney". By the time it was painted up to promote Vancouver's 1986 World Fair (Expo 86), the DC-10s were named after Canadian Provinces. Last flying freight with DAS Air Cargo, it was withdrawn from use in late 2007.

Originally the "Empress of Australia" when delivered October 4, 1974, C-FCRD is photographed wearing titles promoting Vancouver's Expo 86 World's Fair. To Pakistan International Airlines in November 1986 which saw CP Air trade their four 747-217s for DC-10-30s. This one was later broken up in Karachi.

C-FCRD promotes Expo 86, which was still two years away.