Thank you so much Tom. Documenting this will be very important for future Edmontonians.

Those images alone are enough to make one very sad indeed. Thanks for the update iSight.

Hi Tom,

It has been awfully quiet since the closure. My morbid curiousity is wondering if the destruction of the City Centre Airport has begun. I haven't heard a peep about runways being ripped up or buildings being demolished. The thought of any of that makes me extremely sad.

Cheers,

Skydrvr7

Outstanding news! I can imagine a great many tears of joy and memory will be shed when she launches into the sky that last time. Congrats to all of you on the hard work and effort to get her out!

Hi Tom, I am hoping you are getting some traction in getting the Boeing flown out of there. Has there been any news coverage of this situation? I wrote to a friend in TV news up there to inquire about it also. I will lend whatever help I can to helping make sure this story gets as much press as poss...

Looks like a merger has been agreed to by Regional 1 and Air Georgian Air Georgian Limited, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, and Regional 1 Airlines, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, sign an MOU to merge under one management team with an anticipated closing date of September 30, 2013 pending...

Beefitarian wrote:I would like more nostalgic ramblings. Please continue.

Yes, please! Keep the stories coming!

G'day Skydrvr7 You may be interested to know I have close to 25,000 R.C.A.F. aircraft accident/incident cards from the Second World War including cards from No. 1 (RCAF) Fighter Squadron during the Battle of Britain. I also have record cards for just about every aircraft the R.C.A.F. ever had up to...

I love the idea of having an RCAF history thread! Please keep the stories coming. We also have a BCATP in Canada group on Facebook with almost 100 members. There are about 1500 photos and maps, ect to check out also. Please come and join the group. http://www.facebook.com/groups/5585509978/ Cheers, ...

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/alcan06-albert ... museum.htm

That link will take you to a photo of the original Lethbridge Air Service Beech 18 CF-RSX. It has been fully reconditioned and is on display at the Alberta Aviation Museum at CYXD in Edmonton.

Here are some more aeronautical charts from WWII that I have collected.
Here is an example of one of the "Night Navigation" maps with the muted colours that are friendly to viewing under a red light.

Cheers!

I will have to check my charts and get back to you. In know that I have some foreign airport charts like London and some Caribbean destinations in there...I may have overlooked scanning all the Canadian ones. I also have some sweet WWII VNC charts including some that were made for night navigation.....

That would seem to be as good an idea as any to me...there are some instrument approaches where you come at the runway on an angle from the navaid also...maybe another contributing factor?

Here is yet another to enjoy....this time the home of the Winnipeg Jets.

Good eye bverwegen!

I have no idea. Anyone want to take a crack at it??

I am glad you are enjoying the approach plates and charts....I will add some more to enjoy.

Here are a couple more for your viewing pleasure....I'll post some eastern Canada ones now.

I posted CYXD on purpose....most people have no idea how grand that airport had once been and how the city failed to protect it from encroachment. I still say it could be a great transportation asset given a city council that has something other than land developers $$$$ in their pockets.

Here are a couple to whet your appetites... from 1949.

Thanks for pointing out the Dieppe Raid's similar date Fog! I think the two together make for an excellent reason to annually remember the sacrifices of our troops over many, many years, conflicts and peace keeping missions.

Thanks again Foggy! The event was something we just felt we had to host. Check out the outstanding photos on our Airdrie Legion Blog here; http://airdrielegion.blogspot.com/2011/08/airdrie-welcomes-home-our-afghanistan.html We plan to honour Afghanistan veterans every year around the 20th of August ...

Hello everyone! We had a fantastic Welcome Home to the Troops at the Airdrie Legion yesterday. We had the perfect weather and more than 600 people in attendance. We had 3 Afghanistan veterans present who we had a tremendous standing ovation for. We also presented the fellows with a very special comm...

Thanks for the kind words Fog! We are modestly hoping for 500-1000 people but would be very happy to have a whole lot more! I think of the kind of turnout that the "Highway of Heroes" manages to attract in Ontario for the repatriation of one of our fallen troops and think Airdrie and Southern Albert...

I concur with the CF-18's and the Airbus 320 engine noises. I always notice that sound the most clearly at Las Vegas as there seems to be so many A319/320/321's operating there...those V2500's have a very distinct whiny sound to them!

Hello all! The Airdrie Legion will be Welcoming Home Our Troops from Afghanistan tomorrow, Saturday August 20th/ 2011 starting at 1PM at the Airdrie Legion. We will have North Caribou Aviation's F-18 BBQ in attendance cooking up some "top flight" hamburgers plus we will also have our our outdoor bee...