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First Air Boeing 727-100 Combi

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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

 

Here is a nice winter flight by First Air 727-100 Combi from CYQM Greater Moncton International Airport located in the city of Dieppe 4 miles northeast of downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada to CYYZ Toronto Pearson International Airport 14 miles northwest of downtown Toronto.

 

Typical configuration of First Air Boeing 727-100 Combi

 

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Presenting choices of seat arrangement as seen below:

 

129 saleable all economy class seats

77 saleable economy class seats & 2 freight pallets

58 saleable all first class seats

57 saleable all economy class seats & 4 freight pallets

34 saleable all first class seats & 2 freight pallets

31 saleable all economy class seats & 5 freight pallets

20 saleable all first class seats & 4 freight pallets

24 saleable all first class seats & 5 freight pallets

0 saleable seats with 8 freight pallets

 

Starting engines in very early freezing January morning

 

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Taxiing into taxiway 11 for more taxi and backtracking

 

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Backtracking on runway 11

 

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Holding position on runway 11 waiting for take off clearance from CYQM controllers

 

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Still waiting

 

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Finally on airborne on climb to FL320

 

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Starting to make left 180 degree turn toward west heading to HUL

 

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Finishing 180 degree left turn and still on climb to FL320 westward

 

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Gorgeous wing view of sunrise

 

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You can see the airport of departure on ground

 

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Still climbing to FL320 with background view of Petitcodiac River known informally as the Chocolate River

 

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Still climbing

 

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Leaving city of Moncton behind

 

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Cruising at FL32O

 

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Unless I am mistaken, I think I passed city of Fredericton and its CYFC Fredericton International Airport located in Lincoln, New Brunswick, Canada, eight miles southeast of Fredericton.

 

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CONTINUED BELOW to observe new limit of 20 screenshots per post....................

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Intercepting HUL above countryside of Houlton and heading to YUL

 

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Passing CYHU Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport which is Montreal's first international airport is in the Saint-Hubert borough of Longueuil, Quebec ten miles east of downtown Montreal

 

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Amazing wing view of mighty city of Montreal!!!

 

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You can see CYUL Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on ground while intercepting YUL and heading to YOW

 

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Passing CYMX Montréal–Mirabel International Airport which is main cargo airport located in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, 24 miles northwest of Montreal

 

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Cruising past Air Canada MD-11 flight number ACA438 flying southward from Montreal to Baltimore

 

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Intercepting YOW over the city of Ottawa and heading to YSO toward CYYZ via SIMCOE2 arrival

 

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Cruising along with United Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight number UAL743 from Montreal to Toronto

 

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Seconds before touchdown on CYYZ runway 23

 

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TOUCHDOWN

 

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Front landing gear gliding down slowly in most graceful manner

 

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Exiting from runway 23 into taxiway F to head to taxi on taxiway H

 

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Taxiing on taxiway H to gates

 

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Thank you for viewing. Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

 

Regards,

 

Aharon

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Zowen11,

 

Thanks for being loyal fan to my screenshots and please continue enjoying more of my next screenshots.

 

Thanks for kind words. The livery is from HJG who was very kind to paint this livery at my request.

 

Regards,

 

Aharon

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Great shots of a piece of Canadian aviation history, Aharon. Very cool of HJG to do a repaint of it in its last livery before retirement.

John G.

Great shots,Aharon!!

DIMITRI

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Venustus,

 

Welcome back to Avsim forums and thanks for your kind words!!

 

Regards,

 

Aharon

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Thanks for being loyal fan to my screenshots and please continue enjoying more of my next screenshots.

You're welcome! Keep up the great work!

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3J and Verybumpy,

 

Thanks for your kind words.  NO VC for me. Do not want memory resource intensive stuff. I am happy with 2D panels.

 

Aharon

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