RON DUPAS COLLECTION
No. 803. Handley Page H.P.R.7 Dart Herald 206 (CF-EPI c/n 166) Eastern Provincial Airways
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Handley Page H.P.R.7 Dart Herald 206

08/31/2012. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Eastern Provincial Airways (EPA), which provided air communications through Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, from its main operating base at Gander, ordered three Heralds in late 1961. In 1962 EPA arranged to takeover Maritime Central Airways (MCA), including MCA's subsidiary Nordair Ltd of Montreal. This came into force in May 1963.

On February 1, 1961, both Nordair and MCA had ordered two Heralds, those for Nordair were delivered in early 1962. However, pending the merger of the three airlines, those destined for MCA were built, but not delivered, as was the first of the EPA order. Hence in 1963 four aircraft were in operation with EPA:

CF-NAC c/n 159. Built for Nordair, first flown January 15, 1962, delivered, February 12, 1962
CF-NAF c/n 160. Built for Nordair, first flown March 2, 1962, delivered March 13, 1962
CF-EPI c/n 166. Built for EPA, first flown January 27, 1963, delivered, February 13, 1963
CF-EPC c/n 167. Built for EPA, first flown March 8, 1963, delivered March 29, 1963

The pictured CF-EPI served with EPA till 1975, on January 28 the registration was cancelled and two days later it was registered in the UK to the Trans-World Leasing Ltd. (TWL) of Southend as G-BCWE. Subsequently it was leased to British Air Ferries (BAF) and named Jeremy Keegan, it was subleased to Air Anglia in April/May 1975. On January 1, 1979 it was subleased to British Islands Airways, and renamed Caroline Frost; it returned to BAF on October 23, 1979.

TWL sold the aircraft to Chemco Equipment Finance Ltd. of London on November 9, 1983, while the aircraft was transferred to the USA on July 23, 1983, the aircraft was reregistered in the UK to Ronald Cannell of Holbrook on July 30. In March 1988 it was sold to Aerovias SA of Guatemala City, Guatemala, and reregistered TG-ASA, by October 1991 it had been withdrawn from use at Guatemala City, where it was seen ten years later in a deplorable state, its ultimate fate is unknown."


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