Starratt Airways
| Starratt Airways | |
|---|---|
| IATA code : | - |
| ICAO code : | - |
| Call sign : | - |
| Founding: | 1932 |
| Operation stopped: | 1942 |
| Seat: |
Hudson , Ontario , Canada
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| Management: | Robert Starratt |
| Passenger volume: | 12,600 per year |
| Freight volume: | 2980 t per year |
| Fleet size: | 19th |
| Aims: | |
| Starratt Airways ceased operations in 1942. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Starratt Airways was a Canadian airline based in Hudson , Ontario .
history
In 1926, the Hudson Bay Company commissioned Robert Starratt to set up a transportation network in northwestern Ontario to move equipment and other goods to the gold prospecting areas near Red Lake and Uchi Lake . Therefore, Starratt bought Hudson Bay Transport in 1928 and Red Lake Transport in 1929 and founded the Northern Transportation Company in Hudson . To research transport routes and to support repair work, Starratt bought a De Havilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth . A short time later, the fleet had grown to fifteen aircraft and Starratt founded Starratt Airways in 1932. Starratt Airways was the largest airline in the world at the time, with up to 12,600 passengers and almost 3,000 tons of cargo per year. Due to Starratt's interest in technical developments, he only bought the most modern aircraft of his time. These included machines from Fokker , Stinson , Travel Air and Fairchild as well as aircraft of the types De Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth , Beech 17 Staggerwing and Noorduyn Norseman . In 1937, the company was the first to buy a Beechcraft 18 in Canada and fitted it with both runners and floats .
In addition to the commercial flights, the company also went on charity flights, for example to bring Christmas gifts that Starratt had procured at its own expense to remote settlements. It was also the first airline to fly ice hockey teams to remote games at a fraction of the cost.
With the start of World War II , Starratt was forced to sell the majority of its aircraft to the Canadian military . In 1941 he finally sold the company to the Canadian Pacific Railway , which in 1942 ran it with the other regional airlines Canadian Airways , Ginger Coote Airways , Southern Air Transport (Canada) , Wings , Prairie Airways , Mackenzie Air Service , Arrow Airways , Quebec Airways , Montreal & Dominion Skyways and Yukon Southern Air Transport merged to form Canadian Pacific Air Lines . In 1987 the Canadian Pacific Air Lines went together with Eastern Provincial Airways , Pacific Western Airlines and Nordair in the Canadian Airlines , which in turn was bought by Air Canada in 2001 .
fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
- Beech C17R (CF-BIF)
- De Havilland DH.60M Moth (CF-AGX), preserved to this day, on display at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum , Wetaskiwin , Alberta
- Fairchild 82 A (CF-AXG3)
- Travel Air SA-6000-A (CF-AEJ), received to date, new registration number (N4942V), based at Valle Airport in Williams , Arizona
Previously deployed aircraft
- Beech 18A (CF-BGY), destroyed in an accident
- Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker (CF-AEC)
- Curtiss C-1 Robin (CF-AHH)
- De Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth (CF-APO)
- Fairchild 71 C (CF-AWW), destroyed in an accident
- Fairchild 82 A (CF-AXD)
- Fairchild 82A (CF-AXL), preserved to this day, on display at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Fokker Super Universal (CF-AJA), destroyed in an accident
- Fokker Super Universal (CF-AJB)
- Noorduyn Norseman Mk.II (CF-AZS), destroyed in an accident
- Noorduyn Norseman Mk.IV (CF-BDE), sold to the Canadian Royal Airforce
- Stinson SM-1D-300 (CF-AUH), destroyed in an accident
- Stinson SR-5A Reliant (CF-ANW)
- Stinson SR-9F Reliant (CF-BGJ)
- Travel Air B-6000 (CF-ABF), destroyed in an accident
Incidents
- On 24 October 1935, the Travel Air had B-6000 with the license plate CF ABF near the Lindbergh Lake Ontario due to technical problems make an emergency landing . Nobody was injured in the accident, but the machine burned out completely.
- On April 8, 1936, the Fairchild 71C with the license plate CF-AWW crashed at Savant Lake in Ontario and was destroyed.
- On March 2, 1937, the Stinson SM-1D-300 with the registration CF-AUH was destroyed in a fire in a hangar in Hudson.
- On 16 June 1937 the Noorduyn Norseman Mk.II with the indicator fell CF AZS when landing on Red Lake in Ontario and was destroyed.
- On February 9, 1938, the Fokker Super Universal with the registration number CF-AJA was destroyed in a fire in a hangar in Hudson during maintenance.
- On January 7, 1941, the Beechcraft 18A with the registration number CF-BGY crashed on a cargo flight near Bruce Lake in Ontario and was destroyed, the pilot was fatally injured.
See also
Web links
- Photos from Starratt Airways on Airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Starratt Airways. Canadian Bushplane Heritage Center, accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ^ Four Airlines Pass to Canadian Pacific . In: The New York Times . May 8, 1941, p. 35 ( nytimes.com ).
- ↑ Starratt Airways. Airline History, July 9, 2018, accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Johan Visschedijk: Starratt Airways & Transportation. 1000 Aircraftphotos, July 31, 2014, accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ^ Crash of a Travel Air B-6000 in Lindbergh Lake. Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives, accessed January 31, 2020 (rundi).
- ^ Civil Aircraft Register - Canada. Airhistory.org.uk, accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ^ Civil Aircraft Register - Canada. Airhistory.org.uk, accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ↑ ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 196876. Aviation Safety Network, July 26, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
- ↑ ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 90440. Aviation Safety Network, February 22, 2011, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
- ↑ ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 29223. Aviation Safety Network, January 31, 2014, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
