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Qb001 From Canada, joined Apr 2000, 2053 posts, RR: 4
Posted (9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago) and read 1268 times:

I was a great fan of Wardair and I was very sad when it disappeared.

Anyway, I saw this photo and was surprised. The photo claims this is a A-300. Did Wardair really operated A-300? I thought they only operated A-310, which are now being flown by the CAF.

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CKT789 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago) and read 1252 times:

This is an A310, isn't it? The nose is too raked back to be the A300 (?).

Jamie.

MD80Nut From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 870 posts, RR: 10
Reply 2, posted (9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago) and read 1237 times:

To my knowledge, Wardair operated the A300B4 and the A310-300.
cheers, Ralph

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AirCanadaMan From Canada, joined Feb 2000, 465 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago) and read 1216 times:

Wardair flew at least 3 A300's, all of which came from South African back in (I think) 1986, and stayed till around 1988, 1989 at the latest. They aquired the A300's before the A310's and kept the A300's up until the A310's began to show up, all of which were new builds.

Klik From Canada, joined Oct 2000, 152 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago) and read 1187 times:

The A310 only has one door forward of the wing... So it's an A300...

klik

Bromma1968 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (9 years 6 months 3 weeks ago) and read 1159 times:

Qb001 if you click on:View Large and then at the underlined registration you
get all photos available of that registration in the data base. Under
the last photo it says A300 on lease from South African Airlines. Please use
the data base!

Kind regards

Anders Nilsson

Mats From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 585 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (9 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1023 times:

I think I actually flew on a Wardair A310. It was leased to the failed Australian startup Compass Airlines. I flew from Melbourne to Sydney in 1991.

Awschucksflyer From Canada, joined Nov 2003, 150 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (9 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 999 times:

I loved flying Wardair. I flew the YOW-LGW route many times in the late 80's early 90's. It WAS a disappointment to see them dissolve into Canadian Airlines Int'l. The A310 was consistently used on this particular route. A comfortable aircraft and the in-flight service has been the best I have EVER experienced, right down the dessert trolley featuring black forest cake. Mmmmm...

Captaingomes From Canada, joined Feb 2001, 6413 posts, RR: 58
Reply 8, posted (9 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 982 times:

One of the Wardair A310's went to Royal Airlines, as C-GRYA, and that aircraft now flies for Sata International. The good thing about that is it frequently flies to Toronto, so it comes back home once in a while. Smile

"it's kind of like an Airbus, it's an engineering marvel, but there's no sense of passion" -- J. Clarkson re: Coxster

Cessnapimp From Canada, joined Oct 2001, 1320 posts, RR: 23
Reply 9, posted (9 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 904 times:

Awschucksflyer,

Remember the strawberry mousse in the chocolate "cupcake" shaped mould? Had that in a Wardair 747 YYZ-CDG in '86. The "Doc" Oaks I flew on the outbound. Inbound, can't remember... I was very young. I remember listening for the first time to Eurythmics and the Parachute Club (don't particularily like that music now, but it was my first exposure to anything outside my father's Tchaikovsky) from the tube phones... Wardair is the reason I am so nuts today about aviation. The two flights I had on them to CDG on 747's as a kid hit me harder than a Tyson blow.

Much harder.

May it be the discovering of new music genres from the IFE, the awesome service, or the multi coloured wallpaper on every bulkhead/galley/lav.

Welcome to the forums and awesome website I should say!

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