Flying Time

The industrious people of this region have created complex and educational rituals to celebrate technology and personal history. The region has many old airstrips which participated in the training of pilots during the war of the 1940s. Almost one quarter million commonwealth pilots were trained in the skies above this land leaving many memories of the old Harvard training aircraft which prepared graduate pilots to step in to planes-of-the-line on the other side of the ocean. The acquisition, restoration, and flying of those old aircraft is now the goal of the Canadian Harvard Association.

Two recently acquired craft are beginning the work of restoration in the airport hangars.

Technical displays show the old training mockups – this one showing the instrumentation systems for the Harvard.

Several of the associations now-flying harvards participated in the air show.



Special guests at the air show included a very rare original flying ME-109, a well engineered compact plane which served German flying crews from the 1930s to 1945.

Also, present – and participating in the “Battle of Britain” flying show was a Hawker Siddeley Hurricane, a contemporary of the ME-109 but slower and less manoeverable – as the flying show demonstrated.