BUSH TO BOARDROOM

by

DUNCAN D McLAREN

A Personal View Of

Five Decades of Aviation History

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A History Book

of

Early Canadian Aviation / Bush Pilot History

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1993

294 Page

Paper Back Book

Good morning, today we have another AVIATION HISTORY BOOK up for sale. 

It is called BUSH TO BOARDROOM by DUNCAN D McLAREN. A PERSONAL VIEW OF FIVE DECADES OF AVIATION HISTORY

This 280 page hard bound book was published in 1992 by Watson & Dwyer of Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

From the dust jacket -----

For five decades, beginning in 1933, Duncan McLaren has been dedicated to planes. He serviced them, flew them, tested them and later in his career, he leased, traded and bought them. Now, from the resources of his life-long experience, he is writing, again about planes.

Duncan Mclaren flew the Canadian Arctic, the uncharted Labrador and the bush country of the northern Canadian provinces for the Hudson's Bay Company. In the years of World War II he was a civilian pilot doing the priority work of testing military aircraft.

In 1953 he went to work for Russ Baker and Central British Columbia Airways Ltd, soon to be re-named Pacific Western Airlines Ltd. His story includes the development of Pacific Western Airlines from its beginnings as a bush line, its corporate acquisitions and the part it played in the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line in the 1950s.

In 1962 his aviation interests expanded with a move to the United States and the worldwide leasing of transport aircraft, including the conversion of the fleet to jet aircraft. Eight years later McLaren was assigned, as president and chief executive officer, to the financially troubled Interior Airways Inc., of Alaska. He describes the State of Alaska's first bankruptcy and how he salvaged the airline. He relates international business dealings that took him to the Philippines, Japan, Australia, South Africa and Europe; his assignments were complicated, sometimes dangerous, and seldom routine.

Author McLaren tells a remarkable story with humour, and in meticulous detail that will satisfy the most demanding aviation, arctic and business specialist.

The contents include -----

1. 1933 - The Beginning

2. Canadian Airways

3. Flying Down North

4. Bridge Employment

5. Company of Adventurers

6. A Licensed Pilot

7. Post Inspection Trips

8. The CF-BVM Story

9. Noorduyn Aviation

10. Flight Testing the Harvard

11. Various Assignments

12. Return to the Hudson's Bay Company

13. Hudson's Bay Company 1946-1951

14. The Winnipeg Flying Club

15. Queen Charlotte Airlines

16. Pacific Western Airlines

17. Resupply DEW Line Contract

18. After Pacific Western

19. California: 1962

20. The Philippines

21. Transfer to Miami
22. Alaska

23. National Aircraft Leasing

24. A Management Consultant

This book is in a very good condition with edge wear to the cover of the book and to the upper and lower edges of the dust jacket

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