CF-AIG
Fokker F.14
(c/n 1401)
The F.14 was the last Fokker
design to be built in the United states. Designed primarily as a
mail
plane, the aircraft above was the prototype and was originally
registered in the US as (NC)150H.
It went to
Western Canada Airways in 1929 and was then absorbed into the Canadian
Airways
fleet
when that company was founded a year later. It was written
off in
an emergency landing at
in
January 1931 at the
aptly named Pilot Butte, which Canadian Historian Will Chabun tells me
is
located
about 20 km east of Regina, on a direct line between Regina and
Winnipeg. At the time
of this
well-known accident, this aircraft was being used on Western Canada
Airways' Prairie
airmail service
between the two cities. The airmail service started on an
experimental basis in late
1928, was made permanent the next year and then canceled in 1932 as a
result of cutbacks caused
by
hard economic times.