Just in time to celebrate Blatchford Field’s 90th Anniversary, we have a new and very significant aircraft on display. G-CYYG is a De Havilland DH60 Cirrus Moth, built in 1928, just one year after the creation of the airfield. It ...
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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 of here (Blatchford) as early as 1919” remembers May’s son ...
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This video will be part of the new Wop May exhibit being installed as part of the 90th Anniversary Celebrations of Blatchford Field. More information about the event can be found here.
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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 the event was a dog, a parachute and a former ...
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In the May/June 2017 edition of In Formation: Three Weeks in December 1928: Canada’s Experimental Prairie Air Mail Service Mitchell Memories Bush Pilots on the Northern Canadian Resource Frontier No.1 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force at RAF Northolt, Part One
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