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Old 18th Jul 2023, 20:20
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India Four Two
 
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While we are waiting.
one does look at the single engine plane anchored behind it with its cantilever wing.
G-CASK was a very famous Fokker Super Universal:



A beautifully detailed model of a Fokker Super Universal. The real G-CASK was registered to Western Canada Airways Ltd. and flown by famed bush pilots Punch Dickins and Walter Gilbert. The first to fly the entire length of the Mackenzie River and over the north magnetic pole, G-CASK was Canada’s most famous airplane of the 1920s.Regrettably, in 1933, G-CASK perished burned up in a refueling accident at Fort MacMurray, Alberta.
https://royalaviationmuseum.com/arte...irplane-model/

It came to a sad fiery end at Fort McMurray in 1933:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=1330

I'm lucky enough to have seen a Super Universal in the air. Clark Seaborn who rebuilt CF-AAM*, flew it into my gliding club's field for us to look at. Now it is marooned forever in a museum!

​​​​​​​Nearly four decades later, in 1974, the aircraft’s remains were salvaged by the Western Canada Aviation Museum (now the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada) and taken to aircraft restoration expert Clark Seaborn of Calgary, Alberta. Seaborn agreed to restore the aircraft in exchange for the right to fly it for five years. Over the next 18 years, Seaborn and his team used the wreck and those of two other Super Universals found in the Yukon to restore CF-AAM to flying condition. The most painstaking part of the process was building the aircraft’s wings. This involved nailing sheets of plywood over wooden ribs using thousands of closely-spaced nails. The end result was an exacting recreation of CF-AAM as it appeared right before its final flight, down to the wood paneling and mohair seats in the cabin.

In 2001, Clark Seaborn flew the restored CF-AAM along its original airmail route in the Yukon before donating it to the RAMWC.
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https://royalaviationmuseum.com/airc...versal-cf-aam/

* Prior to 1929, Canadian aircraft were registered G-Cxxx. Subsequently, they were registered CF-xxx. Nowadays, we have C-Fxxx and C-Gxxx.

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