Queen Charlotte Airlines
| Queen Charlotte Airlines | |
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| Founding: | 1943 |
| Operation stopped: | 1955 |
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| Management: | Jim Spilsbury |
| Number of employees: | 285, including 35 pilots |
| Fleet size: | 30th |
| Aims: | u. a. Vancouver , Comox , Queen Charlotte Islands and Moresby Island Water Airport |
| Queen Charlotte Airlines ceased operations in 1955. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
The Queen Charlotte Airlines (short: QCA ) was a Canadian airline company in British Columbia , Canada . It was founded in 1943 by Jim Spilsbury, owner of Spilsbury Communications Ltd. (Radio and two-way radio manufacturer) on Savary Island , an island in the northern part of the Strait of Georgia .
history
After the war Spilsbury acquired 14 machines of the type Supermarine Stranraer from the inventory of the Royal Air Force and used them as civil aircraft for Queen Charlotte Airlines . The QCA's first flight destinations were Vancouver Seaports , Comox , Queen Charlotte Islands and Moresby Island . Other smaller islands for passenger and freight service followed later.
QCA only operated seaplanes in the early years and quickly became the third largest airline in Canada at the time. In 1952, QCA had 30 aircraft, employed 35 pilots and 250 people.
In 1955 Spilsbury sold the company to Pacific Western Airlines .
fleet
The following aircraft types were operated by QCA (without claiming to be exhaustive):
- Avro Anson
- Cessna Crane
- Consolidated PBY Canso
- De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver
- Douglas DC-3
- Noorduyn Norseman
- Supermarine Stranraer
See also
literature
- The Accidental Airline Spilsbury's QCA. Harbor Pub., Maderira Park 1998, ISBN 1-55017-097-X .
