This page shows my collection of postcards from Canadian Pacific Airlines.

Quoted from Wikipedia:

Canadian Pacific Air Lines was a Canadian airline that operated from 1942 to 1987. It operated under the name CP Air from 1968 to 1986. Based at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia, it served Canadian and international routes until it was purchased and absorbed into Canadian Airlines.

In the early 1940s, Canadian Pacific purchased ten bush airlines in a short time span, finishing with the purchase of Canadian Airways in 1942, to form Canadian Pacific Air Lines. CP Air battled with the government owned Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) for international and trans-continental routes for much of its history. Despite early attempts to merge into one national carrier, CP Air continued to operate routes based on its previous bush flying heritage.

The development of the great circle or polar route to the Far East from its Vancouver base would become one of the cornerstones of the airline. The airline was flying DC-4s and DC-6s internationally in the 1950s, introducing turboprop Bristol Britannia Aircraft from 1958. DC-8s began to replace them from 1961, but the Britannias continued on routes that were unsuitable for the new jets well into the 1960s.

As for all my airlines pages it's structured in five areas:

Airplanes in flight (0) | Airplanes on the ground (0)

Crews & Passengers (1) | Destinations (2) | Miscellaneous (1)

Current number of postcards on this page:
4

This page was last updated on November 14, 2010