Original postcard caption: DC-8 Jet Empress Canadian Pacific - the only Canadian airline serving five continents.

03/31/2011. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "The DC-8-41 was intended for intercontinental operations and was powered by four 17,500 lb (7,938 kg) st Rolls-Royce Conway R.Co. 12 bypass engines. Fuel capacity was 17,500 gal (66,245 l) and the maximum take off weight (MTOW) was 276,000 lb (125 192 kg).

(N6577C) (Ron Dupas Collection)

This was the ninth DC-8 built and it made its first flight on July 23, 1959 registered N6577C to Douglas Aircraft.

(CF-TJA) (Johan Visschedijk Collection)

It was delivered to Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA) of Montreal, Quebec on September 25, 1960, registered CF-TJA with fleet number 801, the first of four DC-8-41s purchased by this airline. TCA was renamed Air Canada on June 1, 1964. It was later converted to a DC-8-43 with a fuel capacity of 23,400 gal (88,579 l) and a MTOW of 315,000 lb (142,882 kg).

The aircraft was leased to the Jamaican airline Air Jamaica of Kingston from July 28, 1977 to March 15, 1980, registered 6Y-JME. On July 28, 1980, it was sold to the Peruvian airline Aeronaves del Perú of Lima, registered OB-R1205 and scrapped in January 1986 in Lima after having been withdrawn from use and stored."