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High-flying salesman Mike Kilburn, who helped beat a sales deadline for the Dash 7 Short-takeoff-and-landing airplane by selling five of tghe craft to Ethopian Airlines, strolls back home in North York with wife Pat and daughter Erika
High-flying salesman Mike Kilburn, who helped beat a sales deadline for the Dash 7 Short-takeoff-and-landing airplane by selling five of tghe craft to Ethopian Airlines, strolls back home in North York with wife Pat and daughter Erika

High-flying salesman Mike Kilburn, who helped beat a sales deadline for the Dash 7 Short-takeoff-and-landing airplane by selling five of tghe craft to Ethopian Airlines, strolls back home in North York with wife Pat and daughter Erika

Date6/27/1975
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0128950F
      Up in the air, but still very much in the stage of development and discussion, this DHC-7 plane, a short-takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft, built by(...)
      Up in the air, but still very much in the stage of development and discussion, this DHC-7 plane, a short-takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft, built by(...)
      Otter (Transport plane)
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      Maiden flight of the Dash 7. Soaring over a test area near Markham, 50-passenger STOL (for short take-off and landing) Dash 7 make its first flight Th(...)
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      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      3/27/1975
      Selling airline: Wardair Inc. chairman Max Ward, 66, announced yesterday that he is selling the carrier to PWA Corp., owner of Canadian Airlines International
      Selling airline: Wardair Inc. chairman Max Ward, 66, announced yesterday that he is selling the carrier to PWA Corp., owner of Canadian Airlines International
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      1/20/1989
      De Havilland Dash 8 Bob Rae presides as Great China Airlines Chairman S
      De Havilland Dash 8 Bob Rae presides as Great China Airlines Chairman S
      Stuparyk, Michael
      6/8/1994
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      1/19/1989
      Flying high: Curtis Begg, above, president of Skywalker Airlines, and partner Albert Friedberg, both football fans, started up the Toronto Island based airline as a faster way to get to Buffalo Bills games.
      Flying high: Curtis Begg, above, president of Skywalker Airlines, and partner Albert Friedberg, both football fans, started up the Toronto Island based airline as a faster way to get to Buffalo Bills games.
      Mahler, John
      4/28/1987
      High-flying antics. Workers finish installing a billboard for Canadian Airlines yesterday along the Gardiner Expressway west of Strachan Ave. and appe(...)
      High-flying antics. Workers finish installing a billboard for Canadian Airlines yesterday along the Gardiner Expressway west of Strachan Ave. and appe(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      11/3/1992
      Stuck in the mud: It's so bad on the construction site that even backhoes are getting stuck says Mendy Finkelstein of the home builders' sales and marketing council. Builders want Ottawa to extend the deadline on $3,000 grants for new homes because of the
      Stuck in the mud: It's so bad on the construction site that even backhoes are getting stuck says Mendy Finkelstein of the home builders' sales and marketing council. Builders want Ottawa to extend the deadline on $3,000 grants for new homes because of the
      Beaty, Keith
      4/11/1983
      Airlines crowd Canadian skies. Expansion plans of foreign carriers, year-to-date. Delta Airlines: Delta pays $10 million (U.S.) in February to buy Tor(...)
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      Stuparyk, Michael
      6/23/1991
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      The big airplane needs private and public money to achieve takeoff speed, say promoters of a proposed aerial ferry service to bring natural gas south (...)
      Atrill, Verne
      5/2/1973
      Flying low. City Express' Dash-7's are carrying the load after its Dash-8s, above, were seized by creditors. Air Ontario, which also flies to Montreal(...)
      Flying low. City Express' Dash-7's are carrying the load after its Dash-8s, above, were seized by creditors. Air Ontario, which also flies to Montreal(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      8/2/1990
      Hung up: Canadian Airlines International executives Rhys Eyton, right, and Kevin Jenkins say the airline is losing money because of overcrowding at Terminal 1
      Hung up: Canadian Airlines International executives Rhys Eyton, right, and Kevin Jenkins say the airline is losing money because of overcrowding at Terminal 1
      Canadian Airlines International
      5/17/1990