Bill Devine

Bill Devine: pilot, air transport section Bill Devine joined Avro in December 1954, and was assigned by Don Rogers to captain Avro's DC-3, CF-DJT. Bill was fresh out of a career in the RCAF Air Transport Command where he flew DC-3s and C-119s. Along with Denny Young his very able co-pilot/engineer and Paddy Ferguson his second AME, ran the "Air Transport Service for Avro until October 1959. The carried passengers such as Avro's James C. Floyd and Ernie Alderton, Air Marshall Curtis and Air Vice Marshall Plant to name a few. On February 2, 1959 Bill and Don Rogers went in Avro's DC-3 to Trenton to pickup Peter Cope and return him to Toronto after the Arrow had landed there because of the TCA Viscount folded its undercarriage and slid to a stop at Malton. The following day they returned to Trenton with Spud Potocki on board so he could bring RL-204 home. After Avro he filled the job of Chief Pilot at the now defunct Sarnia Airlines, Chief Pilot of Domtar in Montreal on Hawker Siddely 125 jet type and finally as Captain on Lockheed Jetstar, Vickers Viscount and Beech Kingair with Transport Canada Executive flight. He transported the Prime Minister Cabinet Ministers until his retirement in 1986. Now resides in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.