Brand New Bombardier Q400 Passes Through

A brand new Bombardier Q400 (aka de Havilland DHC-8-400 Dash-8) passed through Winnipeg on 1 July, on its way to All Nippon Airways in Japan. The crew was nice enough to let us have a quick look around. The airplane had only six flying hours on it when it landed in Winnipeg. The pilot gave me a quick update on the changes in the cockpit, which otherwise looks pretty similar to the Dash-8-100s I've worked on for twenty years. The pilot also mentioned that he had flown the CT-142s when they were still in primer, in 1989.