de Havilland Canada Farewell Event at Downsview Airport
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Hi everyone! Welcome to the video!
On June 11th, 2022, a private event was organized at Downsview Airport (CYZD) in Toronto, Canada, just a short hop east of Toronto Pearson Int'l (CYYZ). The event marked the farewell of de Havilland Canada's 94 year presence at Downsview Airport as the airport itself is due to be redeveloped for residential land and commercial purposes in the next few years. Employees pastand present as well as close media were invited to attend.
An assortment of de Havilland aircraft were invited for static display. These included the de Havilland Canada Tiger Moth, DHC-1,2,3,4,6,7 and 8 ( no -5 as all of them were retired in early 2022).
After the event ended early Saturday afternoon, a special departure parade of all invited aircraft was organized. The order started with the Tiger Moth and went DHC 1,2,3,4,6,7 and 8. Each aircraft took off, made one pass over the field and continued onwards towards their destination.
Enjoy the video and farewell to de Havilland Canada at Downsview Airport after 94 years.
All the best,
Ernest G.
TIMES:
INTRO: 0:00
FRIDAY ARRIVALS 0:53
de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou 1:05
de Havilland Canada DHC-7 3:32
SATURDAY DEPARTURES 4:53
de Havilland Canada Tiger Moth 5:15
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk 6:24
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver 7:37
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver 8:49
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Turbo Beaver 10:12
de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter 11:23
de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou 13:01
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 14:16
de Havilland Canada DHC-7 15:32
de Havilland Canada DHC-8 16:50
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Date Filmed: 10JUNE2022/11JUNE2022
Times: 1400-1740hrs/1100-1530hrs
© Ernest Gutschik Aviation 2022
My mother was the Chief Weights Engineer for DeHavilland Canada until 1993. I remember open houses as a kid with tours of the engineering offices and production facilities and watching the test pilots demonstrate STOL capabilities for the crowds. My mom worked in a largely CAD CAM free mode and in the early days it was all slide rules, mechanical desktop calculators and blueprints. I was always impressed by the fact that these machines were hand made from the drawings to fabrication.
The Dash 7 was epic 😎
Fantastic video. Loved seeing the variety of De Havillands.
Thanks man!
Wonderful video! Thanks so much for sharing it!
Thanks for watching!
Great video! Such a shame the RCAF couldn’t delay the retirement of the -5 a bit ;) a stop at Downsview on the way to CFB Trenton for its own retirement would have been very memorable.
Thanks Daniel! Yeah, that would’ve been incredible.
Amazing video!
Thank you sir!
Incredible video man!
Thanks Jelmer!
My local airport downview
Nice tribute to de havilland Canada👍🙂
Thanks!
Your very welcome 👍🙂
Great Job Ernest
Thanks David!
Amazing and beautiful tribute!
Thanks!
Nicely done Ernest! 👍
Thanks Ken!
Thanks for getting that great video for us Earnest
Cheers! :)
Props matched the shutter speed on the last 1 👍🏻
Hahah I knew someone would notice!
@@ErnestGutschikAviation i had the same thing happen with Wingfoot 3 ! lol
So nice wow. What camera do you operate?
Thanks! Sony RX 10 MKIV
Thanks for the awesome video Ernest.Good to see some old and new favorites from DH .Too bad they didn't do a cross country tour,It would be worth seeing,
Cheers! That would've been awesome for sure!
Ernest this is a sad day, but a day to rejoice for a new location at Pearson. My uncle was in the liaison and modifications design branch at this plant for 14 years, then he taught high school for the Etobicoke Board of Education as a mechanical drafting teacher. He worked through the time of the Vietnam War for DH, did some design work on the space arm, and
designed a machine to throw birds at flight glass at five hundred miles an hour to seen if the glass would break for a company in California. Ultimately he became an interior design specialist. He designed four planes for the Shah of Iran and his heirium of women. The interior was loved by the guy. He never did take the job but was offered to continue his interior design work at Airbus industries. Too bad the was so good even back in the late 1960's.He was at DH to see the Comet fly in with Douglas Barder, he had lunch and toured the plant and was home in London England for dinner. What a day this is in avaition history Ernest. Have a great week and God Bless mate!
Thanks Chris! Wow, that’s an incredible experience story of your uncle! Yes, but I believe they will move to Calgary. Bombardier shall head to Pearson.
Is DHC opening a facility at Pearson? I read that they want to move operations to a completely new airport outside of Calgary. It's currently in the planning phase.
@@Michael60634 Mike DHC are in fact moving out to the Calgary area at a new site. Alex Praglowski has move detailed information at his CZcams channel just recently. Bombarier are moving to the southwest end of Pearson just the other side of where Bramalea Road comes to the security fence at Pearson. I read sometime ago the new Hanger is one million square feet. They hope to make one hundred Global Express jet per year at the new location. I hope this helps you. God Bless you Michael.
cool vid Ernest! however, i thought that downsview was permanently closed to all traffic? i know that the museum has since closed and the avro arrow was inside, (can't remember the new location). it's been ages since i've gone to downsview (hence the museum note). interesting how they probably still use it in case of an emergency landing that an aircraft cannot arrive to pearson safely. just an educated guess since i really have no idea. let's grab some lunch and beers at Zet's one day! hahaha! would be great to meet you in person. cheers for now and see you in the next vid. also, first again! :-)
The Avro Arrow model is now at Edenvale.
@@danp1975 ah yes! thank you sir!
Thanks! Downsview is not officially closed yet, the airport is still operational with Bombardier as their only tenant right now. It does plan to close down at the end of 2023 from what I’ve heard. I’ll hold you to that Zets offer ;)
@@ErnestGutschikAviation deal buddy!
Well Downsview airport still be there? I don’t want to get tear down
My boyfriend works for Bombardier we were invited we didn't go 😣
Oh sorry to hear that, was an amazing turnout.