Hello. I know something.
Fidel Castro visited Asia and stopped in Japan for
a few days. He left Tokyo for his country with 3
Cubana aircrafts on March 4th. They were
CU-T1282, CU-T1283 and CU-T1284.
Apparently, he cannot enter in the United States,
so these Cubanas landed at YVR.
regards,
Shingo Kawase
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Montano" <mmontano@direct.ca>
To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:40 PM
Subject: YVR - Cubana?
> Do Cubana IL-76s (is that what they are?) make regular visits to
> Vancouver?
>
> Where I usually see a surplus CP/AC 737 about to be 'painted' into the
> latest Zip/Tango/AC scheme there was a (rather beautiful) Cubana jet.
>
> If these have been regular visits as of late, that would explain the
> extremely noisy departures I've heard while standing in the parking lot
> of Lansdowne Mall a mile or two away.
>
> Any insight?
>
> Matthew
>