By Neil Taylor Editor’s note: Ninety years ago this month, the Mercy Flight by Wop May and Vic Horner, was a pivotal moment for aviation in Edmonton. It proved that aircraft and bush pilots could play a key role in ...
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Twenty-eight years ago airline captain Terry Champion walked into a meeting of aviation groups working to save Edmonton’s Hangar 14, the Second World War building now home to the Alberta Aviation Museum. He had no intentions of getting involved. “Bruce ...
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all their efforts throughout the year. Over this past year there have been many changes to the museum not only internally but externally. We’ve come through a year that ...
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Wop May’s son, Denny, was guest of honour this past weekend at a meeting of two other First World War avation legends. Denny May, along with 250 others, attended the performance of Roy Versus the Red Baron, the work of ...
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Museum volunteers attending our annual Christmas Lunch were treated to a special guest this week. Bill Cottrell, was president of the Alberta Aviation Museum almost 30 years ago, before it occupied Hangar 14. He was a leader of the movement ...
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