by funp4 | Jun 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Updates on Project November 2020: Help us preserve the memory of F/O Raymond Gran DFC and Saskatchewan Conversation officer Harold Thompson. Help us tell the story of their downed Cessna 180 CF-JDO, which was recovered after 59 years in Peter Pond Lake, which awaits a...
by funp4 | Jun 11, 2020 | History
Cherry Red Airline, also known as the Cherry Air Service, was the first airline in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The company founded by Norman Cherry and H. Holroyde in 1928. Cherry had noticed an unmet demand for transportation services by mines in Saskatchewan...
by funp4 | Jun 11, 2020 | Aircraft
The one plane the Learning Centre Children can climb into, all at once. It’s a Play Center! The Cessna Skymaster is a United States twin-engine civil utility aircraft built in a push-pull configuration. Its engines are mounted in the nose and rear of its pod-style...
by funp4 | Jun 11, 2020 | Artifacts
The grid steering compasses (Type P8 to Type P11) were fitted in World War II era aircraft. They were used for course setting and reading, and as a check compass on aircraft fitted with a remote indicating compass. The compass body rests in an alcohol liquid and rests...
by funp4 | Jun 11, 2020 | History
The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War (WWI) to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed. The plaque 4.75 inches (120 mm) in diameter, were cast in bronze and came to be known as the “Dead Man’s Penny”,...
