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About Eric Blackwood
- Eric Blackwood (aviator) (born December 7, 1921) aviator, born Brookfield, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland.
- A noted navigator, during World War II, serving in both the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force, Blackwood is the founder of Eastern Provincial Airways.
- In the early days of EPA, Blackwood acted as pilot, operations manager and director.Blackwood, educated at Wesleyville and then onto Prince of Wales College at St.
- John's, joined the Royal Canadian Airforce in 1942 where he served as navigator.
- In 1945 he formed Newfoundland Aero Sales and Services Inc.
- with James McLoughlin and Ren Goobie.
- Newfoundland Aero Sales and Service was eventually sold to Maritime Central Airways in 1949.
- Then on March 10, 1949 Blackwood founded Eastern Provincial Airways with a single plane, a Twin 50 Cessna.Timeline for EPA 1949: Eastern Provincial Airways (charters), St John's Newfoundland 1961: Scheduled flights to Greenland begun. 1963: Acquired Maritime Central Airways. 1982: Subsidiary Air Maritime. 1983: Headquarter operations moved from Gander to Halifax. 1984: Merged with Canadian Pacific Air Lines.
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