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Museum staff map decades-old crash site
Forty-five years after a Pacific Western Airlines cargo jet crashed on approach to Edmonton’s International Airport, pieces of the Boeing 707 are still scattered among the trees in a wooded
Haunted Halloween a Hoot
The Alberta Aviation Museum’s first-ever Haunted Hangar 14 event was great fun, both for the staff and visitors. Our curator, Lech Lebiedowski dressed up as a northern bush pilot, complete
Open Cockpit Day 2017 a record-breaker
Open Cockpit Day was a big hit with Edmontonians. We were delighted to have more than 750 people come through our doors during the four hours of the event. That
Wop May’s son to help museum celebrate Blatchford 90th
Blatchford Field would likely never have come to be had it not for legenday bush pilot, Wilfred “Wop” May. “My dad was flying out of Mayfield, about a mile west
Linus and Al steal the show at 418 gallery reopening
The storied history of Edmonton’s 418 Squadron was on display last Tuesday as the history gallery detailing the unit’s achievements reopened after a year of renovations. But the star of
Blatchford Tales Oral History Project collecting new stories
Aviation pioneers Rae Churchill and Chris Falconer both had an early brush with aeronautical history. Both men told their stories to our Blatchford Tales Oral History Project, which resumed in
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