WARDAIR CANADA
(Canada)
The first DC-10 operator in Canada was Wardair Canada, a charter airline which was at that time Canada’s third largest carrier. In the late 1970s, two DC-10-30 aircraft were ordered to replace two Boeing 707s. They were introduced in 1978 and later joined by an ex-Singapore aircraft in 1981. The DC-10s were used on charter flights to several destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico and US - holiday destinations like Hawaii and Florida. The DC-10s used on these charter flights had an all-economy configuration for 341 passengers, but some aircraft were also used on the first scheduled flights over the North Atlantic, which started on May 1st 1986, in a lower density C/Y configuration. The airline’s drop in passenger numbers in the 1980s forced the airline to replace all DC-10s and A300s with smaller A310s, so that the last DC-10 left the fleet in 1989. In the same year, Wardair was taken over by another DC-10 - operator, Canadian Airlines International. None of Wardairs aircraft, which included 747, A310 and DHC-6 aircraft, was operated over a longer period.
Following aircraft were operated by or for Wardair Canada:
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| Registration | Aircraft | Fleetnr./Name | Operated from - to | Where is it now? |
| C-GFXH | 46990/ 260 | Sir Stan MacMillan | 18.09.1981 - 28.04.1988 | SCRAPPED |
| C-GXRB | 46976/ 254 | CH Punch Dickens, 101 | 14.12.1978 - 19.04.1989 | -stored- |
| C-GXRB | 46978/ 256 | WR Wop May, 102 | 03.11.1978 - 26.09.1988 | -stored- |
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| Previous airline: VIASA |
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Next airline: Western Air Lines |