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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One hundred years after the the Red Baron, the most feared and famous German fighter pilot ever was shot down over France, he is being brought back to life. With him, man the man credited with ending Baron von Richthofen’s ...
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By Neil Taylor (Editor’s note: With Jack Johnson’s recent donation of his rare Curtiss JN-4 to the museum, we wanted to provide some background about the importance of these aircraft to the early years of aviation. For more on the ...
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Jack Johnston’s generous donation of his precious Curtiss JN-4D (Jenny) is one of the largest donations ever made to the museum. It was also a complicated job to dismantle the 100-year-old airplane and move it to the museum. The team ...
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One hundred years after it was built, and almost nine years exactly since it was last flown, a rare Curtiss JN-4D has landed for the final time at the Alberta Aviation Museum. The historic aircraft made its last trip ...
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