G-CAHI Fokker
Universal
(c/n 412)
G-CAHI was one
of six Universals delivered to the Canadian Department of Marine and
Fisheries
in 1927 - G-CAHJ next
to it was another one. (Image from a pre WW II Fokker
brochure). This
aircraft was used on the
Hudson Strait Expedition in 1928. When Canada was allocated
the prefix
CF- in 1931, it appears that
few (if any) of the previously registered G-C series aircraft were
actually
repainted (unlike in
Australia where all the extant G-AUs became VH-). It appears that
the Canadian
machines remained G-C until stricken from the
register. (Confirmation of this by a Canadian aviation
historian would be welcomed).