What was the first airplane you flew in?

[geodoc]

The first airplane ride I got was with my friend Dave Stanton in his 65 horse J3 Cub out of the Mathis Airport north of Atlanta. I was ~ 25, probably about 1978. Mathis was unusual in that it was built at the site of an old cemetery and not being able to move the graves, they laid them down and paved around them:



Dave "Scumbag" Stanton:

[boogs82]

Mid 90's C172 as part of the Young Eagles program at CYTS.

[FighterPilot]

I wish I knew... It has been driving me nuts for years. I know it was in May 1990 and I was two years old so I don't really remember, but it was from YQT to either YYZ or YHM. My relatives arn't even sure what airline. My mom is pretty sure it was Air Canada to YYZ. That means it could have been a 737-200, 727, or DC-9. If however it was Canadian and possibly to YHM it could have been a 737-200 and if it was Canadian regional it could have been a Fokker 28.
If anyone knows more about what planes were used on those routes, even to just narrow it down. I would be very thankful. It's kind of annoying to me as a pilot and aviation buff to not know what airplane I flew on first.

[Wildbill]

When I was 10 years old in July 1964 my family visited Cape Cod and we went on a short sightseeing flight. I never knew what kind of plane it was until this past July (50 years later) when I did a DVD conversion of a Super 8 movie my Dad took. I was able to see the N number on the tail of the plane (N205W) and, after a quick internet search, identified it as a 1930 Stinson SM-8A.

Second flight was in a Cherokee 140 in May 1970 at St. Hubert right after my 16th birthday and starting my PPL.

Bill

[davecessna]

The amount of ex-Quebecois in this thread is hilarious.

[ehbuddy]

Ercoupe............mid 60's in Penticton.

[Troubleshot]

RCMP Twin Otter from Goose bay to Nain, my Father was in the RCMP in Goose for 6 years and he took me on a "road trip" when I was younger, get memories! (1986?) and went by call sign MPW I believe..

[TG]

Zero memory of it.
1967, few months old, had to be one of the three DC-8 from Air Afrique at the time.

Like this one.

[pdw]

In a dark-green trim Cherokee in 1967 at the age of 8 (St Catharines Flying Club) with my Uncle, and an older German Instructor who was still teaching me groundschool when I started off there six years later ...

[redlaser]

My first flight was in a super club which had a pilot seat up front and two seats side by side in the back, I was ten years old at the time and the year was 1956, the pilot was George Kerr who later went on to flying helicopters in the N.W.T. I remember seeing the fields all in large rectangles and the cottages along the river being so small although we were only a couple of thousand feet above the ground, I kept an eye on George as he piloted the airplane and the airplane dials impressed me, Now with twenty some thousand hours flying under my belt and having flown all over Canada and the U.S.A. and mexico, I still remember my first flight in a yellow super cub out of a grass strip located behind the hospital.O by the way gas was only 35 cents a Canadian gallon back then and a Harvard aircraft from the war in flying condition was $ 500.00 bucks.

[NunavutPA-12]

June 1948, Montreal Dorval to Forestville, Quebec on a TCA DC-3.

I still have the ticket stub for the return flight on CP Airways a few months later (operating as Quebec Airways), saved by my mother ($ 28.75 one-way).

On the first flight I was 6-weeks old and the youngest passenger on Trans Canada Airlines up to that time. That was in June of 1948.

Somewhere I have a picture of a stewardess standing by the door of the DC-3 in Forestville, me in her arms, ready to board for the return to Montreal. That same stewardess was later killed in a bombing of a DC-3 in Quebec in September of 1949.

[PostmasterGeneral]

Delta Airlines 727 in 1988. YYC-SLC. Then an L-1011 to ATL.

First plane I flew was a 172 back in 1999.

[NunavutPA-12]

The amount of ex-Quebecois in this thread is hilarious.

You got that right!

[dogsbodymk1]

In 1980, at age 25, I left Nova Scotia for Alberta. I flew in an Air Canada Boeing 707.

I still live in Alberta.


Chris

[NunavutPA-12]

The flight that got me interested in aviation was much later in life, and around 1978. That was with Perry Linton in Helio Courier C-FSAA. How could that flight not impress a newbie!?

[Liquid Charlie]

Not sure the year but TCA DC-3 YYZ-YOW

[Canoehead]

The first flight I can remember was with my dad in 1976- C172 in YPQ (Trent Air?).

Airline flight was an AC L1011 YYZ-YVR and return, likely in '81 or '82. I remember going to the flightdeck both ways and being awestruck.
That Lockheed is still the coolest airplane in my mind. Not many flying anymore- in fact maybe only the RAF?

Great thread.

[lost in the north]

DHC-2 with Norcanair and first helicopter ride was in a S-58 with Northwesteren Helicopters.

[Moose47]

G'day Chris

"In 1980, at age 25, I left Nova Scotia for Alberta. I flew in an Air Canada Boeing 707"

Are you sure it was not a Douglas DC-8?

Cheers...Chris

[Moose47]

G'day

Indeed C-FMPW was still based on the Goose in 1989. CF-MPW was an RCMP DHC-3 Otter which was written off on the 18th of August 1976 at Ile La Crosse, Saskatchewan.

Did you have a good time while living in Goose Bay?

Cheers...Chris

[Antique Pilot]

In August 1961 My Dad and I made the long 30 mile trek to Stevenson Field in Winnipeg. We went to the Winnipeg Flying Club at the end of Sargent Ave. Dad talked to an instructor there, paid him $5.00 and away I went in the back seat of an Aeronca Champ for my first flight. Second flight was in Oct 1967, again at the WFC with Bill Maraschuck in a C150.

AP

[I_Drive_Planes]

1967 Cessna 172H. When I was 14 or 15 my dad arranged for us to go flying with a friend of his.

[Rookie50]

@1983, YVR- YYZ , think with CP AIR -- not sure what type. DC. 10? Anyone?