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Waco AQC-6
Waco AQC-6 The Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio was a major manufacturer of aircraft in the U. S. from 1928 – 1935. Beginning in 1921 as the Weaver Aircraft Company they moved to Troy in 1924 and became the Advance Aircraft Company keeping the Waco logo. From 1929 they changed the name to the…
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Out in the cold…
Recently, an event necessitated the removal of some of the fleet that were snugly housed in the hangar. Here they are with brave smiles on their faces, waiting for their turn to come inside again. The Waco AQC-6 in the chill December air. The SE5a keeps company with the Museum’s Harvard II on the rainy…
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Chilliwack Flight Fest 2019
The Museum participated in the Flight Fest on August 25 with a sales team and aircraft display. The sales crew had an early start to get the Museum’s trailer, packed with material, on the road. Other volunteers took to the highway to support the effort. Sales at airshows are part of the constant effort to…
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Abbotsford Airshow 2019
The Museum was active at the Abbotsford Airshow. Now we are back home at Langley Airport. Come and visit our displays and Gift Shop. Scenes at Abbotsford Airshow: Look for the colorful Museum trailer. The Waco AQC-6 cabin biplane rests as the sun sets. One of the Museum’s Pup aircraft bears the name, ‘Happy’ and…
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Father’s Day 2019 at the Museum
The glorious early summer weather continued for Father’s Day. The set-up crew arrived early and cleared aircraft out of the hangar then set up tables, chairs and games. Coffee pots and snacks were arranged. Museum aircraft were artistically arranged on the adjacent hangar taxiway. These were soon joined by more aircraft and classic vehicles from the…
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Pitt Meadows Airport Day
June 1st was Pitt Meadows Airport Day and the Museum took three of its flying collection to the event. Flawless weather and a good crowd made the show a success for our staff and volunteers in the sales booth. As well, the three aircraft, the Waco Cabin biplane, the Fleet Canuck and the Sopwith Pup…
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Spring Training Camp
As the Museum prepares for the summer flying season there are lots of activities going on under the glorious spring skies. Brenda has ordered the latest in aviation memorabilia for the summer. The engine for one of the Sopwith Pups is nearing completion from a strip and rebuild program by Ray, that will see both…
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Out of the Hangar
The maintenance of the flying fleet at the Museum includes running the engines to check the performance, functioning of fuel and ignition systems and operation of the propeller mechanism. Advantage is taken of a break in the weather to bring the radial engines to life with a bark from the engine and a puff from…
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Doctor Jack Pickup
Doctor Jack Pickup, British Columbia’s “Flying Doctor” Story by Jack Meadows Originally published March 1997 in Aeroplane Monthly Much is known about those enterprising doctors who, in the 1930s, used aircraft, originally a variety of de Havilland Moths, to provide a medical service to the vast Australian outback. However, hardly know outside British Columbia, Canada,…
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TechTalk: Waco AQC-6
The Museum’s Waco Custom Cabin biplane in its element over the Fraser Valley. (Photo by Mike Luedey) First, the Waco name WACO (referring to the aircraft) is usually pronounced “wah-co” (the first syllable pronounced as in “water”), not “way-co” like Waco, Texas, whose name is entirely unrelated. The name comes from a field near Troy,…