Interesting Stories, Notes and Historical information about Windsor Airport (CYQG).
Many of you may be surprised to learn that Wardair flew Boeing 747 aircraft out of Windsor in the ’70’s. The Boeing 747 first flew in 1968 and really ushered in the era of the ‘Jumbo Jet’ and revolutionized the…
The great circle distance from CYQG to London Gatwick is 3768 sm, the normal range of a Boeing 727-100 is 2590 sm. The record flight was 3930 sm. How was that possible? The article below has the answer. To correct…
Officer in Middle East Sends Plea O.C. of 417 Squadron Says Members Want People Here to Help Them During WWII, the vast majority of Canadian Air Force squadrons were based in Great Britain and many were ‘adopted‘ by various cities…
On 18 December 2000, an Antonov 124 (AN124) aircraft, call sign ADB505F, departed on an instrument flight rules flight from Montréal (Mirabel), Quebec, to Windsor, Ontario, to pick up 40 tonnes of auto parts for delivery to Oostende, Belgium. The…
Bob Wong trained pilots at Elementary Flying Traning School No. 7 here in Windsor Ontario as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) during WW II. Bob Wong also founded Central Airways in Toronto, which became one of…
Years ago I was in London (UK) with my family and we just exited Hatton Cross underground station at Heathrow when we witnessed one of the BA Concorde aircraft taking off. The thunderous noise of the aircraft in the climb…