130. CF-PWF Douglas DC-6B Pacific Western Airlines YYC 01JUN67
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 23-Mar-15, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 09-May-23
Taken at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Not a pair of jeans or a baseball cap in sight!
Fleet No: "602".
This aircraft was originally delivered to PANAGRA Pan-American Grace Airways as N6537C in May-52. It was sold to Eagle Aircraft Inc in Jun-62 and leased to Standard Airways in Jun-63.
On return from lease in Feb-65, it was sold to Pacific Western Airlines as CF-PWF. It was leased to Golden Voyagers, a 'common interest' travel club, in Nov-71. In 1973 it was sold to Conair Aviation and converted to a fire-fighting tanker ('Tanker 42').
At the end of May-74 Canada introduced the C-Gxxx registration series and CF-PWF became C-FPWF. It operated with Conair in this role until it was retired at Abbotsford, BC, Canada, in 1983 and was broken up in 1986.
Caz Cazwell has a great photo of it with Conair Aviation dropping a load of fire retardant... see it at
130. CF-PWF Douglas DC-6B Pacific Western Airlines YYC 01JUN67
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 23-Mar-15, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 09-May-23
Taken at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Not a pair of jeans or a baseball cap in sight!
Fleet No: "602".
This aircraft was originally delivered to PANAGRA Pan-American Grace Airways as N6537C in May-52. It was sold to Eagle Aircraft Inc in Jun-62 and leased to Standard Airways in Jun-63.
On return from lease in Feb-65, it was sold to Pacific Western Airlines as CF-PWF. It was leased to Golden Voyagers, a 'common interest' travel club, in Nov-71. In 1973 it was sold to Conair Aviation and converted to a fire-fighting tanker ('Tanker 42').
At the end of May-74 Canada introduced the C-Gxxx registration series and CF-PWF became C-FPWF. It operated with Conair in this role until it was retired at Abbotsford, BC, Canada, in 1983 and was broken up in 1986.
Caz Cazwell has a great photo of it with Conair Aviation dropping a load of fire retardant... see it at