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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Updated: February 6, 2004