It was a tough year for our renowned restoration team. We lost five of our volunteers this year — a great loss, not only of good friends and co-workers but also, the loss of their particular technical expertise will have a great effect on our future restoration efforts. This year’s honour roll includes: Mike [...]
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In early December 1935, two men flew over the last unexplored area on earth – the Antarctic. One of them was the American world-famous explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and the other was Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, a Canadian Airways Ltd. pilot based in Winnipeg. Among his qualifications, Hollick-Kenyon had experience in the ‘specialized art’ of starting airplane engines [...]
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Tom Lamb once shuttled 16 beavers as part of a program to restock beavers into lakes around The Pas. It was the 1940s and, hard as it is to believe today, beavers had become almost extinct across Manitoba. As he tells the tale, at 6,000 feet, the critters started escaping from their gunnysacks. The cabin was soon filled with curious beavers. They clambered over Lamb’s feet, stood on hind legs to inspect the control panels, and hopped onto seats for a better view—while Lamb tried to navigate his five-seater Stinson.
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January 24, 2012 The Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg Airports Authority, and Exchange Income Corporation announced today plans for building infrastructure to forever connect Manitoba to its aviation roots, provide new connections with the North and a state of the art vision for the future. The joint announcement sees the creation of a new facility [...]
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Tommy Siers – The Man Who Solved the Cold Thomas (Tommy) Siers was born on May 13, 1896 in Yorkshire, England. He started his career overhauling and servicing aircraft with the Canadian Air Force in January 1922. After a brief stint with Huff-Daland Aero Corporation in Ogdensburg, NY, he returned to Canada to work for the [...]
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