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by harvard4
Sat May 14, 2022 5:02 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Barkley-Grow
Replies: 159
Views: 141153

Re: Barkley-Grow

Another photo from the Museum files BMW. In same Pacific Western color scheme as BQM above. Also looks like the same location - Fraser River in Richmond, BC?
by harvard4
Sun Apr 03, 2022 5:41 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Barkley-Grow
Replies: 159
Views: 141153

Re: Barkley-Grow

Here's another stray photo from off the internet. This time from; https://archives.rcaf.museum with credits to Ronald Knight. This is the only B-G photo but lots of Canadian historical aircraft photos. This photo is of BMG with its original registration in three-dimensional lettering (that upset D0T...
by harvard4
Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:51 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Barkley-Grow
Replies: 159
Views: 141153

Re: Barkley-Grow

Have been browsing some of the photos at Canadian Museum of Flight and came across some interesting shots of the Barkley-Grow that I haven't seen before. Barkley-Grow-931-658a.jpg One of these clearly shows the Canadian Pacific logo. Another one is labeled on the photo as, 'Peace River airport. phot...
by harvard4
Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:18 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Barkley-Grow
Replies: 159
Views: 141153

Re: Barkley-Grow

I have prepared a booklet on the Barkley-Grow that is available on request from the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, BC. Send an email to: info@canadianflight.org It covers most of the significant history of the T8P-1 - as accurate as 80 year old history can be! A small donation would be apprec...
by harvard4
Tue Jan 25, 2022 2:43 pm
Forum: Bush Flying & Specialty Air Service
Topic: Barkley-Grow
Replies: 159
Views: 141153

Re: Barkley-Grow

I am a volunteer at the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, BC. I have been going through the photo files looking for buried treasure! Sure enough there are some Barkley-Grow photos that I have never seen online. One is of -BQM being lifted by a crane at a dock - obviously been submerged. This is ...
by harvard4
Mon Jan 03, 2022 3:40 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: C46's Pacific Western Airlines
Replies: 34
Views: 17323

Re: C46's Pacific Western Airlines

Pacific Western Airlines 1961/62, Granduc copper mine, Northern BC (YouTube video) Time: 1:54 Avro Anson V. Note round windows in plywood fuselage. P&W R-985 engines. 2:06 Bell 47J 3:57 Avro Anson V CF-INT 4:36 Photo from Anson. Note straight wing leading edge and smooth engine cowl. 6:54 DHC-3 Otte...
by harvard4
Mon Jan 03, 2022 3:14 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: C46's Pacific Western Airlines
Replies: 34
Views: 17323

Re: C46's Pacific Western Airlines

I am new to this amazing forum. Hope you have seen the YouTube about the C-46s flying to Granduc; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JoWFQ0MdoQ I joined PWA in the mid-60s in Edmonton in Maintenance then transferred to Flight Ops. About summer of 68 they were mothballing the C-46, DC-3 and DC-4 and ge...

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