WW2 Cdn Army Repatriation

[David Dunlop]

Hello Grant.

I had thought of those sites but not got around to having a look. Turns out Colonial Airlines was a Canadian operation initially, flying Fairchilds in Canada, but very quickly in the 1930's built up a fleet of DC-3's routing between Montreal, Ottawa, New York La Guardia and Washington DC. By war's end, they had added the Douglas C54 to their fleet. All these aircraft were registered in the USA for some reason. By 1946, Bermuda was added to their routes and shortly thereafter, they were merged with Eastern Airlines.

The only registration I could trace was for NC-88887. This was a Douglas C54E-DC Serial # 27289. The registration was cancelled 17 Jan. 1990.

David

[Wayne McGee]

My father returned in six days aboard the Aquitania on 04 (or 05?) JUN 1946 to Halifax under far superior conditions than his sixteen day trip over on the SS Volendam. The Aquitania had many war brides and their children on board