Hello, welcome to the Home of the CL44

On November 15th of this year, it will be exactly 50 Years ago since the first airframe took the skies.
Please bookmark this site now and visit www.cl44.com regulary to see the new updates.
Or better yet, send me an E-mail at peter@cl44.com and if you want, you will receive an announcement when interesting changes are made.

STOP PRESS STOP PRESS - - - SEE SURVIVORS PAGE - - - STOP PRESS STOP PRESS - - - SAD NEWS, LAST CL-44D4's GONE !!

About the author of these pages

My name is Peter van Leeuwen-Casell and the Canadair CL-44 has been my, by far, favourite airliner since 1980 when I started to collect slides, photographs and informations around this swingtail freighter. Since then my archives have expanded beyond photographic and video records to models, drawings and I have even an inventory of over 600.000 pieces of spare parts for the CL-44. If you want to see the list download HERE. I am curently scrapping all 44- and 28- pieces, so if you want nice piece as "press papier", drop me a line.

Early 1999, during a sponsored trip to Greensboro, NC - Thanks to UNITED AIRLINES - I was even donated a real CL-44D4 c/n 18 (see above) ex N448T, G-AXAA, N122AE by the Piedmont Triad Airport Authorities, but unfortunately the airplane was re-posessed after 3 months and scrapped due to Airport development plans.

She was in the way...What a Tragedy !