This Piper PA-23, C-GHJT of Pacific Pilot Upgrading "landed wheels up on a sand area when the engine lost power" at the southeast end of Vancouver International Airport on August 31, 1975. The aircraft was imported to Canada in 1974 and cancelled from the Canadian registered Sep. 1987 after the company went out of business. The registration C-GHJT has been subsequently allocated to five different Sikorsky S-76s and one Bell 206L-1 LongRanger operated by Helijet International. Today, Helijet's main base at YVR is just north of where this PA-23 crash occurred in August 1975.

Pacific Western Airlines Convair 640, CF-PWY, photographed from the original observation deck unloading passengers in the rain at Vancouver International Airport in September 1973. Many decades would pass before 'jet bridges' were introduced at YVR for turboprop services. PWA repainted this aircraft a few years later in a blue and white colour scheme. After PWA it was operated by Aero Trades Western Ltd., Worldways Canada (1982-1983), Air Niagara (1983-1994) and then leased back and forth between Time Air and North Canada Air at least three times between 1987 to 1993, then retired.

Harrison Airways acquired two Convair 440s from Scandinavia in the mid-1970s. The first, CF-HAF (msn 432), was painted in the airline's blue and white colour scheme. The second, C-GBHA arrived at YVR in Stellair colours with the Canadian registration crudely applied on the rear fuselage with tape. This 440 never entered service with Harrison Airways before bankruptcy. Sold to Aero Dyne Corp of Renton, Washington as N440AD and later flown by Airways Int'l. and Trans Texas Air Freight. Sold to Peru in 1988 and to Bolivia in 1992 as CP-2256. It crashed on Sep. 14, 1993 near Colquemarca, Peru.

The Government of Alberta's new Beech King Air 200, C-GFSB, visited Vancouver Airport on January 17, 1976. The aircraft was first registered in Canada on September 17, 1975. After 22 years of government service, Alberta sold the aircraft to Pentastar Transportation of Spruce Grove, Alberta in November 1997. It was resold to Fast Air Ltd. in May 1998 and flew with this Winnipeg-based charter company until September 2004.

Transferred over from Lufthansa at the start of September. Ground crew preparing the aircraft for taxi out for Frankfurt as 4Y71.

Ferried in last night from Toronto, and seen here departing on its first flight with Sunwing as WG674 to Calgary and Varadero, Cuba. Nice to see some TUI MAX's make their way over here for the Winter season. Previous reg with TUI Belgium was OO-TMZ.

Built in 1957 as HSS-1 Seabat Bu143920. Struck off charge in March 1972 as a UH-34J and sold to civil market as N33EA. Converted to S-58T in 1973, to CF-KGO, OB-T-1041 and N439DS before becoming C-GUSD in 1983. Returned to N439DS in 1987 and cancelled from US register in November 2000.

Helicopters Without Borders (HWB) is a Vancouver based non-profit organization that delivers health, wellness, and critical support to remote communities and population struck by disaster across British Columbia. It was established by Danny Sitnam, the founder of Helijet International and associates on January 12, 2021 during Covid-19. This S-76C++ is the second S-76 to carry a HWB colour scheme. It is leased from Eagle Copters in Calgary, AB, which acquired several S-76C++ from the Bristow Group, including this aircraft, in November 2020. This aircraft was previously N80907 and later N871AL.

Blue Panorama Airlines colour.

Registered as N3263M in 1996, N288CB in 1998 and N283CB then N73WC in 2005.

This 2010 model Sikorsky S-92A, C-GXQI, was seen ground running outside the Heli-One Canada hangar at Vancouver Airport on November 11, 2022. Heli-One is the maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) unit of CHC Helicopters which is based in Dallas, TX. Test flown by Sikorsky as N2133X, it flew with CHC in the UK as G-CHCS, and was exported to the US as N760MR in March 2020. CHC does not fly offshore oil and gas contracts in the US or Canada, its original birthplace. The S-92 was first registered to Heli-One in August 2022 and will probably depart soon for an international CHC contract.

"Ocean (OCN) 71 Heavy" departing back for Frankfurt. Hoping for some more snow on the mountains in the next few weeks.

AF379 departing for Paris CDG. Nice to see these 777-300ERs run the route this Winter on some days.

"Ocean (OCN) 8PG Heavy" on arrival from Frankfurt yesterday afternoon. This livery looks great in the sun!

Originally destined for Russian flag carrier, Aeroflot as VP-BYB, This A350 now flies for Turkish Airlines wearing this hybrid livery. By now, I am sure we all know why they never took delivery of this aircraft... Arriving from Istanbul as "Turkish (THY) 75D Heavy".