CF-AQB
Junkers
W.33f
(c/n 2586)
The rare shot above is from the Myles McLaughlin
collection. The person on the left is Arnold
Eady, Myles' great-uncle,
who was at one time the chief of police of Sioux Lookout, Ontario,
where this
photograph was probably taken At that time it
was operated by Pacific Western
Airlines. First registered
in March of 1931, it initially went to Silverton Airways
The sho
below, showing- AQB on floats was gleaned from an album of James
Connor. Date and venue
unknown. It is possible that craft was with Silverton at the time
and that the photo was taken at
Quebec in the early 1930s. The W33 had the engine changed
(by, I
believe Arthur Fecteau
when he owned it) from the original Junkers
L-5 as seen above to a Pratt & Whitney Wasp,
shown in the two
images below from the Al Nelson
collection. Looked like a really
neat
installation too. It was
owned by
Riverton
Airways at that time. Also, at some point in its
career it
was upgraded to W.34f standard. This ancient Junkers was
withdrawn from use in 1959.