I love it when new model acquisitions give me the opportunity to update old avhistory blogposts at the site. This week I picked up the 2024 Aeroclassics C3 A319 from ARD for just £23. C3 actually only took delivery of a single A319, C-GKZA, but several others were ready for delivery in Hamburg when the airline collapsed including C-GKZC here. So it's a rather obscure reg to choose, but there is a very good photo of the frame online, which probably is the reason for its selection:
Throughout aviation history there have been many airlines that have flown too close to the sun and got their wings burned. Canada 3000 is a classic tale of hubris and bad timing. I've written about C3 at the blog twice before, in 2016 and 2023. This new model addition is the impetus to update both of those posts, with new photos so check them out here.
First there's:
Secondly there's:
Throughout aviation history there have been many airlines that have flown too close to the sun and got their wings burned. Canada 3000 is a classic tale of hubris and bad timing. I've written about C3 at the blog twice before, in 2016 and 2023. This new model addition is the impetus to update both of those posts, with new photos so check them out here.
First there's:
C3 to India: The Rise & Fall of Canada 3000
Canada 3000 took its chance towards the end of the 90s to become Canada's 2nd airline but its reign was short.
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Secondly there's:
Royal Regret: Canada 3000's Calamity
Following Canadian's takeover of Wardair in 1989 Canada 3000 would quickly grow to become Canada's largest charter airline and one that was consistently profitable too. At the turn of the century the massive changes wrought by the takeover of Canadian Air
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