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I built this model
for my wife who was an employee of Nordair from 1976 until it's takeover by CP
Air in the mid 1980's. It is OOB except for scratch built red beacon on tail and
Whiskey Jack decals. Although the decal sheet supplies the blue tail and
fuselage strips I found these too dark , so I airbrushed a mix of Tamiya acrylics.
The red
markings (possibly Day-Glo)
were a safety measure used to aid S/R operations in
the event of an accident, as these aircraft flew into remote Eastern Canadian
arctic airfields where the landscape was snow covered for most of the year.
Rumours have it that this aircraft was written off due to an accident with a
ground service vehicle.
Ed
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