CF-BZM Noorduyn
Norseman IV
(c/n 5)
This Norseman was owned by Johannesson Flying
Service when this shot from the Leo J. John
collection was made at Winnipeg in the late
1940s. It was a formerly CF-BAM, a pre-war
Norseman III which had been fitted with a more powerful Pratt &
Whitney Wasp S3H-1 in 1937
making it a Mark IV. Impressed during the war as RCAF 694, it was
civilianized in 1946 as
CF-BZM. It
was purchased by Parson’s Airways of Kenora,
Ontario in 1952. It crashed in
1958 as a result of a mid-air collision with Ontario Central Airlines
Norseman CF-IRH. It seems
both aircraft were approaching to land when one descended onto the
other. CF-BZM was written
off
although CF-IRH was later repaired.