Dave, that certainly brings back some wonderful memories for me and I am quite impressed with the
story of your family history.
You are probably familiar with the CF-TCC, the Lockheed 10-A that Air Canada purchased in 1984.
The attached pic is of me in 1977 stripping all of the paint off of 'er! Of course, that was 40 years ago
and I had a little more hair. What a way to start off in aviation!
I was 17 and you can see the brown spot underneath the wing which was Turco paint stripper. I
stripped the paint off most of the airplane myself and that was not much fun for a 17 yr old, but it
paid off when we later found, etched into the aluminum skin, the letters: CF-TCC.
Bud Clark, who was a former childhood friend of my fathers purchased the airplane from a church
that was using it to do mission work in the Caribbean Islands. Bud had been involved in purchasing
classic aircraft and I spent my early years working on several of them like a FG-1D Corsair, WACO
UPF-7, a Stinson SM-8a and of course N3749 which originally was and is again CF-TCC. We flew the
Lockheed to Harlingen, TX in 1977 to the CAF air show and had a fellow come up & tell us
that he was an employee at Air Canada and that N3749 was once operated by Trans Canada. Long
story short, in 1984 Bud sold the plane to Air Canada as they were preparing for their 50th
anniversary. I corresponded with the pilot's that were flying it, but foolishly I never made to
Winnipeg to see 'er and now I see she's flying again to commemorate the 80th anniversary! I really
would like to go up to CA to see 'er if you have any information about how I can do that, please feel
free to contact me. My contact info is in the directory.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Paul