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Aviation History
1959
1959 - 1157.PDF
Flight, 24 April 7959 st flight of a Canadian airplane, February 23rd, the Silver Dart, piloted by J. A. D. McCurdy, takes off from the frozen surface of Bad- deck Bay, Nova Scotia. Historic hop marks beginning of a new era of transportation progress in Canada. 1QCQ First delivery in February of a de Havilland \M»JM Canada DHC-4 Caribou at Downsview, Ontario. Fifty years after the Silver Dart, the Caribou — the first STOL aircraft in its weight category (24,000 lbs.) — nshers in a new era of cargo/passenger air service to the remote areas of the world. DE HAVILLAND AIRCRAFT OF CANADA DOWNSVIEW Established in Canada since 1927 ONTARIO
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