February 19, 2021
In 2005, after a 30-year search, the remains of an aircraft that had become known as “The Ghost of Charron Lake” were spotted at the bottom of the northeastern Manitoba lake on a sonar scan. The complete skeleton was intact, it was still upright on the wooden skis (which were perfectly preserved), the engine still turned over, and the prop looked like new. The discovery received global media attention. In 2010 the “Ghost” was retrieved and delivered to the museum.
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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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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