Tag: Moving Day

  • Vimy Flight

    Vimy Flight

    Don’t forget to check out the Vimy Flight website www.vimyflight.ca Vimy Flight  The seven Vimy Flight aircraft have arrived at the Lille Airport in France via RCAF C-17 transport. The Pups are unloaded in France from the C-17 for transport to Lens airport… …followed by the Nieuports. Update from the Snowie family; The past few…

  • Relocation of storage containers.

    Relocation of storage containers.

    To assist the Museum with its critical shortage of storage space, some of the shipping containers were rearranged for better access and more efficient utilization. An existing container was relocated a few metres… …while a third container used to store mundane articles,such as tables and chairs, was brought within the perimeter fence. All this done…

  • Low-flying DC-3

    Low-flying DC-3

    The Museum’s DC-3 took to the air twice on a soggy spring day in March. To assist the airport with future plans, the aircraft was moved to the new site of the Museum, to the west of the north-south runway adjacent to Fraser Highway. This entailed lifting the aircraft (weighing in at 17,500 lbs) over…