About me Saturday, 09 November 2024 @ 00:23:00
Hi, and welcome to my website.

My name is John and I was born in Bermuda in 1956.

In 1958 we moved to Curaçao, then to Aruba in 1960, and back to Curaçao in 1961 until 1968.

In early 1968 we moved to Canada, and I grew up in Toronto (Etobicoke) & Sudbury, both in Ontario.

When I left school, I got a job as an aircraft mechanic for a small commuter airline in northern Ontario called norOntair (see pictures) which flew Twin Otters, initially operating out of Sudbury and then Timmins... and no, I never met Shania.

During my above time as an aircraft mechanic, although the Twin Otter was my main responsibility as an aircraft mechanic, the following are also aircraft that we had, and that I was an aircraft mechanic on:
  ● Beechcraft   Beech 18
  ● Cessna   Cessna 310  
  Cessna 337 Skymaster
  Cessna 402
  ● Consolidated   PBY-5A Canso (Catalina)
  ● De Havilland Canada   DHC-2 Beaver  
  DHC-3 Otter
  DHC-6 Twin Otter
  ● Douglas   DC-3 Dakota


In 1974 I joined the Canadian Armed Forces (also referred to as the Canadian Forces, but what is now the Royal Canadian Air Force), and the following are places where I was stationed at:

 1974-1975   Various training bases in Canada 
 1975-1979      Canadian Forces Base CFB Shearwater, Nova Scotia, Canada 
 1979-1983     Canadian Forces Base CFB Baden-Söllingen, West Germany with NATO 
 1983-1984     Canadian Forces Base CFB Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba, Canada 
 1984-1984     Canadian Forces Base CFB Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada 
 1984-1985     Canadian Forces Base CFB Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada 
 1985-1989     Canadian Forces Base CFB Comox, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada 
 1989-1990     Canadian Forces Base CFB Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada 

Canadian Armed Forces bases undergoing training:
Deployments in Canada:
Deployments in the USA:
Deployments worldwide:
Attachments in Europe (while stationed for 4 years in West Germany with NATO):
  • 1982 Canadian Starfighters Air Demonstration Team
Deployments and Air Shows flown in Europe (while stationed for 4 years in West Germany with NATO):
I retired early from the Canadian Armed Forces & moved back to Bermuda in 1990, to start a second career in IT... as there's not much call for hunting Soviet submarines on civvie street.

I was in Bermuda for more than 31 years, working in IT for various companies, including 13 years with IBM Bermuda (a division of IBM Canada) servicing (repairing) ATM cash machines.

Although in the 1990s I had a part-time job flying a local Bell JetRanger, taking people on helicopter tours around Bermuda. But the helicopter was sold in 1998 due to no business, and I spent the remaining decades in Bermuda flying a desk .

I retired in August 2021, having reached age 65, and as it was too expensive to retire in Bermuda (according to some sources, Bermuda is the most-expensive place in the world to live), I relocated back to Canada, and am living now in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

That's me in the left pic at the top in the 1990s... Captain John - Bermuda Helicopters Ltd. (in civilian flightsuit, NOT military flightsuit), and me today.

That's about it for me...

Canadian Decoration
medal

NATO Special Service
medal


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