Marville, France
445 Squadron Photographs

An Orenda jet engine for the CF-100 all weather fighter was tansported from Trenton to Marville in an exercise to demonstarte the rapidity of the new Yukon Trans Atlantic freight service. The jet engine was unloaded from the Yukon in the early morning hours at Marville. The engine was installed by maintenance men of 445 Squadron in just three hours, including a run-up of fifty minutes to burn out inhibiting oils and greases. The engine had left Trenton some sixteen hours previous aboard an Air Transport Command Yukon turbo-prop transport aircraft.


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  1. The Yukon with the CF-100 jet engine arrives from Trenton - March 1962.
    Courtesy Steve Miller.

  2. The Orenda jet engine is unloaded from the Yukon - March 1962.
    Courtesy Steve Miller.

  3. The jet engine arrives at the 445 Squadron hangar - March 1962.
    Courtesy Steve Miller.

  4. Sgt R Miller (second from left) and his crew prepare to install the engine in a CF-100 - March 1962.
    Courtesy Steve Miller.

  5. A 445 Squadron CF-100 with the new engine takes off from Marville on an engine change test flight - March 1962.
    Pilot of the plane was F/O Leigh Yerxa of New Glasgow. His navigator was F/O Richard Popowich of Winnipeg.
    Courtesy Steve Miller.


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Updated: February 6, 2004