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Dash service: Air Ontario president William Deluce displays a Dash 8 on the tarmac at Toronto Island Airport. The airline intends to use the plane for daily trips from the airport to Montreal and Ottawa by April.
Dash service: Air Ontario president William Deluce displays a Dash 8 on the tarmac at Toronto Island Airport. The airline intends to use the plane for daily trips from the airport to Montreal and Ottawa by April.

Dash service: Air Ontario president William Deluce displays a Dash 8 on the tarmac at Toronto Island Airport. The airline intends to use the plane for daily trips from the airport to Montreal and Ottawa by April.

Date11/16/1989
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126581F
His weapon's the Dash-8: Air Atonabee president Joe Csumrik of Peterborough is staking $30 million on the 2-engined, 36-passenger de Havilland Dash 8, to gain the lion's share of the Toronto Ottawa-Montreal business passenger trade. John Gilmore of Montreal is betting $35 million on the Dash 7. It'll be no contest, says Csumrik, above, in the cockpit of his firm's plane.
His weapon's the Dash-8: Air Atonabee president Joe Csumrik of Peterborough is staking $30 million on the 2-engined, 36-passenger de Havilland Dash 8, to gain the lion's share of the Toronto Ottawa-Montreal business passenger trade. John Gilmore of Montreal is betting $35 million on the Dash 7. It'll be no contest, says Csumrik, above, in the cockpit of his firm's plane.
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