Mike, Sounds like a blast -- do take your camera, I'd love to see some pix. Do you know why this particular bird was selected to become a museum piece? I don't think it was the first of their order (didn't their deliveries start sooner?), so what's the significance? Or did they just pick one at random? Evan McElravy evan.mcelravy@mail.mcgill.ca on 9/16/02 1:25 PM, Mike Gammon at jmgammon@sympatico.ca wrote: > This coming Saturday, at 08h30 local, Air Canada will deliver by air, a > 1967-vintage DC9-32 to the Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa. CF-TLL hit the > registry on July 11 1967. Now, 35 years later, restored to its original > livery, it will make its last flight. No doubt I've flown on this bird at > some time in my past. > > Here's the kicker though. The airfield at Rockliffe Airport, where it will > land, is only 3000 ft long! Weather and schedule permitting, I might make the > hop up there in the Cherokee to witness this historic event, and mark the > passing of my favourite all-time airliner. > > Mike Gammon >