Photo highlights from Open Cockpit Day: Visiting Aircraft Edition

September 21, 2023

This past weekend we had the privilege of hosting aircraft and pilots from the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum in Brandon, Manitoba.

We were joined by: Mark Odegard, Chief Pilot at the CATPM: Jeff Bell, Harvard Mark II pilot; Nick Reeder, Stinson HW75 pilot; Peter Moody, Fairchild Cornell pilot; John McNarry, mechanic and CATPM president; Robert Glover, Tiger Moth pilot.

Nearly 500 of you came out to see our visiting aircraft—thank you for making the day such a success!

Check out our next visiting aircraft event, taking place on October 7.

Voices from the Hangar

A 2016 walk through northern aviation memory with Gord Emberley and Keith Olson In 2016, inside an off-site storage facility of the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, two of the museum’s founding figures walked slowly between aircraft components, salvaged …

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the Hudon's Bay Building in downtown Winnipeg

Boulders and Beacons: One Way to Stay on Course

Please enjoy this article reproduced from a past issue of the Museum’s former Altitude publication with updates. In the 21st century, when the global positioning system takes all of the guesswork out of navigation, there was a time when pilots relied on …

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The Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada seeks to honour and commemorate the history of Indigenous Peoples and aviation in Western Canada while engaging with the complex history of travel, trade, and relationships in this place. We are committed to facilitating a safe space for reconciliation to occur.

The new home of the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada is located on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional territory of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, Lakota, and Dene Peoples, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.

We respect the Treaties that were made on these territories, we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and we dedicate ourselves to move forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.

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