"The Toronto Aerospace Museum has been trying to acquire this aircraft for several years", says Manager / curator Paul Cabot.  "We've been rebuffed at every turn."

"Canadian aviation heritage advocates, ....... want this rare airliner, widely known as the "Super Connie", preserved and display (sic) in Toronto as an important part of Canada's aviation heritage."  
TAM Press Release 27 Feb 2006

As the Toronto Summers faded into Winters, and the years rolled so swiftly by .......
"Oh, where have you been, all of my life......."

 August 1998
 No Petitions, No Letters, No TAM,  .........  No Interest.........
Gary Watt Photo

 June 1999  
 No Petitions, No Letters, No TAM,  .........  No Interest.........
Rob Bristol photo

   December 2002
 No Petitions, No Letters, No TAM,  .........  No Interest.........
Paul Bulas photo

  April 2004  
 No Petitions, No Letters, No TAM,  .........  No Interest.........
Steve Hall photo

   February 2005   
 No Petitions, No Letters, No TAM,  .........  No Interest.........
Michael Ivanin photo

  February 2006
 John Arnold photo

"The Toronto Aerospace Museum at Downsview Park announced today that it is vigorously opposed to efforts to export the last postwar, trans-Atlantic, piston-engine airliner remaining in Canada."


Pardon me, methinks the Lady doth protest too much..................and, much too late!



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