The Fairview Aircraft Restoration Society members, left to right, Don Wieben, John Campbell, Jim Allan and Doug Roy with one of the engines they will be taking to Newfoundland.The Fairview Aircraft Restoration Society (FARS) has gotten the green light on a pair of low-hour engines for the CANSO project.
The towns of Stephenville and St. Anthony in Newfoundland have a Canso aircraft on display with a pair of good engines but as the aircraft there is for display purposes only, they are willing to trade them for a pair on non-running examples.
The FARS group has found a pair of engines, one with just a few hours life left in it, the other with internal damage and will be transporting them to Newfoundland to install on the Canso there after removing the good engines from it.
Canso CFIZU in St. Anthony was on reserve as a waterbomber for the Newfoundland government until about three years ago when it was given to Stephenville for display purposes. Stephenville agreed to let It pass on to St. Anthony as that town had an extensive history with the Canso aircraft – a mission operating out of St. Anthony had used a Canso for emergency flights up and down the coast and a local pilot had died while flying one of them.
Roger Penney, a pilot with 30 odd years flying the Canso on waterbomber duty flew IZU to St. Anthony.
Before the engine exchange could happen, the town councils of both Stephenville and St. Anthony had to agree to it and Don Wieben of FARS said the two councils are thrilled the engines will be flying once again. They attached only two conditions to the exchange, one being if the engines and propellers were sold instead of being used the money from the sale would revert to the towns of Stephenville and St. Anthony. The second is that once the aircraft is flying the Canso group make Stephenville and St. Anthony a part of the airplane’s itinerary so the citizens of Newfoundland can see what they contributed to.
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