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Old Nov 20, 2011 | 2:48 pm
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Wally Bird
 
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Originally Posted by Seat 2A
Wally, you claim there were two North American airlines that operated the Comet. Are we talking about CP? I know they ordered it, and maybe even took delivery of one but I was pretty sure they never flew a revenue service with one.
No they didn't so under the revised category of operated it doesn't count.

They took delivery of two CF-CUM and CUN the second of which crashed at Karachi on delivery. The first one was still in England and was sold to BOAC.
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