February 19, 2021
In 2003, the 30-year, 40,000 hour restoration of the prototype Fairchild Super 71, CF-AUJ, was completed. AUJ had crashed at Lost Lake, near Sioux Lookout, Ontario in 1940, and was recovered by museum volunteers in 1978.
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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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Tannis M. Richardson, a lifelong Winnipegger, philanthropist, and dedicated community leader, has passed away at the age of 99. Born in Winnipeg in 1926, she later served as a Voluntary Aid Nurse during the Second World War—an early reflection of …
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