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India Four Two
I’m visiting my son in Comox BC and I popped down to Courteney Airpark (CAH3) to see what was going on.
Nothing happening, but “Aaaah de Havilland!”
Courteney Airpark is the epitome of a “downtown airport”. The runway is 100 metres from Courteney’s main street.
The old sewage lagoon in Courtney next to the runway looks a lot cleaner than it used to. When the Runway was gravel and some logging company would take their King Air in their 1800 feet of gravel . Not for the feint of heart . Minimum ground run take offs into ground effect over the water below Vmc will turn your hair as grey as the guy who flew out of there . The Duke was his nom de plume on some pilot sites .
Saw a Cessna 172 up side down in that pond after a brain fart by the guy flying it . It was C-FLAY one of the nicest planes at the Comox flying club .
Landed there when Comox Cape Lazo was calling seventy knots . Good times .