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1964
1964 - 2239.PDF
fa " /m no 13 G-ASS/, the eighth Hawker Siddeley 125, has now begun a three-month sales and demonstration tour of Canada and the USA. The aircraft was flown out to Canada on ]uly 30 via Prestwick, Iceland, Greenland and Labrador by a crew comprising (below, from the left) William Morrison, engineer; Michael Kilburn, tour manager and second pilot; Michael Maina, first pilot for the tour; and Geoffrey Pike, who shared the piloting on the ferry flight from the UK. During its tour the machine will be demonstrated in collaboration with Atlantic Aircraft Sales Corp, AiResearch Aviation Company and Timmins Aviation, the three North American distributors for the 125 SPORT WBmmmBBBmBmAN P ••• B U SI N ESS Lear Jet Certification Mr William P. Lear, president of the Lear Jet Corporation, stated on July 31 that the US Federal Aviation Agency had issued an approved type certificate for the Lear Jet Model 23 twin-jet business aircraft. Completion of flight testing came during the 253rd flight of the second production Lear Jet, which had logged 333 flying hours. First deliveries are scheduled to begin this month, with production expanding to eight aircraft per month by March 1965. Thirteen deliveries are to be made during 1964. Twenty Lear Jets had been sold up to July 31, with an additional 30 reserved on "a priority delivery position basis." Lear Jet is represented in Europe, the Near East, Middle East and Africa by Executive Aviation of Geneva, who have sold two Lear Jet aircraft in Europe for delivery this year. Mr William P. Lear Jr, president of Executive Aviation, is planning a European demonstration tour of the Lear Jet in September. Osbawa's Fly-in Three hundred aircraft and about 1,000 people attended the Oshawa (Ontario) Flying Club's annual breakfast flight and fly-in recently, in spite of threatening weather. First organized in 1955, the fly-in has grown to be the largest civil aviation event in Canada. Visitors came from 70 locations in Ontario, Quebec and the United States. In other years, aircraft have come from as far away as the Maritime Provinces. Many find it remarkable that a club with only 250 members can put on such a large and well-organized event. Volunteers lined the runway directing aircraft, parked two planes a minute, and cooked 1501b of bacon, 250 dozen eggs and 90gal of coffee. Local firms loaned open cars in which attractive girls drove visitors to a reception area. Flying club and Chamber of Commerce officials were on hand to greet them. A local radio society supplied 16 men with walkie-talkie radios for crowd control. The Oshawa Air Rangers provided girls who noted pilots' petrol requirements. Two non-denominational church services were put on by the Christian Airmen, and local air cadets also helped. The event has become so widely known in Canada that one pilot, Bruce Dunn of Goodwood, Ontario, reserved a rented plane for the occasion six months in advance. He arrived at 5 a.m. sharp, thus winning the first-arrival prize for the second successive year.
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