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A Few CANADIAN Aviation Facts for January
1894 – Birth of Hiram Franklin Davison, Canadian 1960 – First flight of the Canadair CT-114 Tutor
WWI flying ace.
1962 – RCAF Piasecki H-21 helicopter 9611, from 121
1889 – Birth of Ross Morrison MacDonald, Canadian (CU) Comox rescue 22 seamen from SS Glafkos.
WWI flying ace.
1962 – Death of Herbert Howard Snowden Fowler,
1891 – Birth of Reginald George Malcolm, Canadian Canadian WWI flying ace.
WWI flying ace.
1970 – The last Canadian Forces Sabre flight 23102.
1897 – Birth of John Elmer "Jack" Drummond, It was ferried Canadair-Trenton by pilot Bob Ayers.
Canadian WWI flying ace.
1972 – Ottawa banned the use of aircraft and large
1920 – Canada established a set of regulations that ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence seal hunt.
required all Pilots, Air Engineers and Aircraft to be
1977 – Death of Ernest Archibald "Ernie" McNab,
licensed by the Air Board.
Canadian WWII fighter pilot, first scoring pilot for the
1920 – First Canadian private pilot’s license was RCAF in WWII.
issued to James Stanley Scott, Ottawa, Ontario.
1977 – Air Canada suspended all regular flights to
1944 – The RCAF accepted the first of 229 Avro Moscow, Prague, and Brussels, and cut the domestic
Lancaster bombers schedule; to offset the 1976 operating losses.
1944 – Six RCAF Handly Page Halifax II’s carried out 1982 – Death of Albert Earl Godfrey, Canadian World
the Bomber Commands first high-level mine-laying War I flying ace.
operation.
1989 – A RCAF Lockheed CC-130E Hercules, 130318,
1948 – First Vampires were taken on strength by formerly 10318, c/n 4124, of 43 Squadron,
RCAF. participating in annual Brim Frost exercises hits
runway lights and a river bank short of the runway
1949 – First non-stop trans-Canada flight conducted
by EP&E North Star commanded by F/O J. A. F. and crashes onto the runway at Wainwright AAF,
Alaska at -46 degrees Fahrenheit. Eleven of the
Jolicouer. Vancouver to Halifax: 8 hours 32 min.
eighteen occupants are killed.
1950 – A North Star aircraft of No. 412 Sqron made
the first Royal Canadian Air Force round-the-world 1991 – CF-18's flew their first mission over Iraq.
flight in a flying time of 125.2 hours. The flight was 2000 – A numbered company, owned in part by Air
carrying Hon. Lester Pearson to Commonwealth Canada, scoops up 82% of Canadian Airline's shares.
foreign ministers conference in Ceylon. When the merger is complete, Air Canada will be the
country's only national airline.
1951 – The first post-war RCAF squadron, No. 421(F)
Squadron, was transferred overseas to Odiham. They
were flying RAF de Havilland Vampires.
