Warbird Information Exchange

Bought a old photo album off of E-Bay around Xmas, thought you might enjoy a few of the images.

Aerodrome




Planes














Best Hitler award



The fella in the middle is Bert Howe, a replica of his Spitfire is on a pole in Windsor Ont.



cheers Dave C

Great find Dave. Some very nice images.

Eric

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

Nice stuff! Like the Hitler.

You may know this already, but - The twins are Avro Ansons (cockpits too) and the singles Fairchild Cornells (PT-19, well, PT-26, technically, in US use).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_PT-19

Be interesting to id the airfield. Anyone?

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

Morning

31 EFTS was located in DeWinton Alberta
It was established in 1940 as a RAF Station as such it originally operated using the Canadian version of the Tiger Moth.


Tom H

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Alberta Aviation Museum
Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society

Thanks for the info Tom, would you happen to know if they have a museum of some sort their? ( if it is still their ).

I purchased this album just for one to get it back to Canada ans two to donate it to a museum if wanted.

Cheers Dave C

Did a little search on google earth and looks as if the strip is still their, very cool.



Cheers Dave C

The Nanton Lancaster Society is just down the road - an outstanding museum.

http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/

Great find and save, Dave!

I'm extremely happy you rescued that album and have seen fit to share it with us. And from someone who spends most of his free time researching training and training stations, THANK YOU for preserving the album for posterity.

Scott

Hi Dave Cheeseman

What a great rescue and an admirable goal to get it to an appropriate museum.

I would recommend (2) that would be really appreciative to receive an album like this one.

1) Nanton Lancaster Museum in Nanton Alberta, Bob Evans is the curator and they have a series of displays on both Bomber Command (and a great Lancaster) as well as a wonderful series of displays on the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, including DeWinton.

You can contact Bob through www.lancastermuseum.ca they have a contact link.

2) Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum in Brandon Manitoba. They are dedicated to preserving the history of the BCATP program and air bases.

You can contact them at www.airmuseum.ca

These (2) museums would be most appropriate, but if they don't step up please contact me at
eahs.execdirector@shawbiz.ca

As we have one of the largest photo archives and libraries in Canada when it comes to aviation museums.

Nanton and Brandon should really get first shot though as it is more appropriate to their collections.

A quick check of my CFS shows 2 runways at De Winton 10/28 and 16/34 active but deteriorating, the field is now privately operated.

Hope that helps

Tom

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Alberta Aviation Museum
Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society