Over by the hangars are a pair of British Airtours Boeing 707-436's. Delivered new to CP Air as CF-CPQ on 30 Dec 1968. To Worldways Airlines on 01 Mar 1883. To Aerolease Finance Group as N780AL on 28 Dec 1990 and leased to Airborne Express on 21 Jun 1991. Reregistered to N817AX in Nov 1991. Noted stored at Wilmington in Oct 2003. Noted at Lake Charles CWF 27 Dec 2006 minus parts. Broken up and cancelled on 15 May 2008.

This aircraft was involved in an incident on the runway involving a just airborne TAA, Boeing 727,VH-TJA striking the tail on 29/01/71. The 727 landed safely.

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CF-CPQ, by then C-FCPQ, was sold to Canada's Worldways Airlines in 1983.

CF-CPQ and TAA Boeing 727 VH-TJA collided at Sydney airport on the night of January 29, 1971. There were 240 people on the two aircraft. The report found the CP Air crew had backtracked instead of exiting while the crew of the 727 was criticised for failing to see the DC-8 when they had time to stop and not adopting a steeper climb-out when they did. The controller was largely exonerated because from his position at night it was difficult to see if the DC-8 was on the runway or the taxiway. The 727 safely landed despite losing hydraulics from a large hole in the belly. No injuries.