RCAF Transports load men and supplies for ferry trip to Ascension Island 7,000 miles away. Ascension will be home to 28 RCAF men and 4 DRB Scientists for 1960 during an anti-missile research project. DND photo.

Draft of UNEF veterans boarding RCAF North Star at El Arish airstrip. DND photo.

DND photo.

Former Royal Canadian Air Force North Star 17502 was struck off strength in 1966 and sold to Trans Florida Aviation. Registered CF-UXA to Canadian subsidiary Cavalier Aviation, the aircraft was one of two North Stars (CF-UXB the other) operated by Air Caicos on freight services from Florida to the Turks and Caicos Islands. Later with Air Turks, it flew the last North Star commercial flight when time ran out on the engines June 19, 1975 and the aircraft was scrapped in Sarasota, FL .

DND photo.

DND photo.

DND photo

DND photo.

DND photo. Location could be Comox, but unconfirmed.

DND photo.

North Star 17515 shows it is in urgent need of some TLC outside the Canada Aviation Museum at Rockcliffe in 2005.

Taken on strength in 1948 and the flag on the tail indicates it was carrying UN troops and supplies to the Belgian Congo. Struck off strength at CFB Mountainview in 1964 and scrapped.

Taken on strength in 1948 and the flag on the tail indicates it was carrying UN troops and supplies to the Belgian Congo. Struck off strength in 1966 and registered CF-UXB. Damaged beyond repair landing at Sarasota/FL on 17 September 1971.

Canadian AF 17514 was transferred to the Aeronautical Establishment as CF-SVP-X in 1965. Fitted with tailboom for magnetic survey gear, for mapping of the earth's magnetic field, and to develop submarine detection gear. Last operational flight as such on 8 May 1975. Offered for sale in November 1978, and sold to Aircraft Salvage of Dallas Inc. in February 1979. Became N8022L in August 1979 (registration in very small print on the tail in this photo). Alledgedly used for smuggling in the Caribbean during the early 1980s. Stored (possibly seized) at Great Inagua, Bahamas, and broken up there in the early 1980s.

Delivered to the RCAF as 17515 in 1948. Retired at Rockcliffe by 1971 and preserved. The only survivor of the type.

17501 was destroyed by a fire that started in the cargo hold while the aircraft was being loaded. Photo taken the day after. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Used for ice research. Returned to transport configuration c.1951. Lost in a hangar fire at Dorval, Quebec, on March 19, 1956. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

The aircraft was wrecked at Hall Beach/NU (CYUX) on 1 February 1962 when three engines failed after take-off due loss of oil pressure. It had been left outside for about 90 minutes in -37 deg temperature with 15 mph wind and the oil had started to congeal resulting in blown gaskets and oil coolers etc.

Built in 1947 and struck off charge in 1966 to become CF-VLY. Scrapped at Sarasota/FL.

Transport Command aircraft