CAPA News Archive 2008 - 2009

Canadian Premier September 13th, 2009

The Alberta Aviation Museum was proud to host the Canadian Premier of this very special production that aired across Canada the following night on the History Channel.

Several hundred attended this event which was introduced by the Producer/Director Michael Jorgensen of Myth Merchant films. Mr. Jorgensen has produced many great features including such aviation productions as Battle of the X Planes and the Lost Nuke.

Hitler's Stealth Fighter is an in depth look at both the history and the modern creation and testing of a full scale model to determine if it was truly a stealth aircraft. As typical of a Myth Merchant production it was both extremely educational and immensely entertaining.

Michael Jorgensen introducing the production and answering questions after made the whole event that much more personal.

Those attending were also able to partake of the Alberta Aviation Museum and our unique simulators that featured special allied and Axis aircraft for this evening.

The feature was presented on the "Cadet Side" of our facility using our "in house" projection and sound systems allowing for a special "Museum and a Movie" evening like no other.

A special thanks to the volunteers and staff that made this evening so wonderful and of course to Mr. Jorgensen, Myth Merchant Films and History Channel for allowing it to happen.

Thomas Hinderks
Executive Director
Alberta Aviation Museum
Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society

 
The Kelly-D biplane of the Alberta Aviation Museum. Photo by Ken Katarynchuk.

ALBERTA AVIATION MUSEUM -- ANNIVERSARY CAKE AND HALF-PRICE ADMISSION ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

Celebrations continue at the Alberta Aviation Museum in Canada's Centennial Year of Aviation in 2009. On Sunday, September 6 at the Alberta Aviation Museum, one hundred years of powered flight will be marked with half-price admission and serving of anniversary cake -- while the cake lasts! But admission is half-price all day on Sunday.

Over 40 aircraft are on display at the museum, including the museum's open-cockpit 1920s-style biplane, shown above. In celebrating 100 years of flight, this little aircraft has made four re-enactment flights of historic events in recent months, winter and summer, and has appeared at the Peace River air show. 

Other aircraft on display include a 1931 Cranwell biplane, the first home-built aircraft in Edmonton and a restored Mosquito fighter-bomber, the type of aircraft flown by City of Edmonton 418 RCAF Squadron during the Second World War. Other wartime aircraft include a Tiger Moth biplane used for elementary pilot training, and a twin-engine Anson, the type flown from the museum's hangar to train navigators. A C-47 aircraft on display was used to carry paratroopers on D-Day during the war.

Visitors are alway welcome to visit the restoration area, where volunteer craftsmen are presently restoring a B-25 Mitchell two-engine bomber, the type flown by 418 Squadron after the war, from the very hangar which is now home to the museum. Several bush planes are also on display, the type of aircraft that earned Edmonton the moniker of "Gateway to the North," in serving northern Canada by air before systems of roads and rails were built.

As visitors enter the museum, the first aircraft they will see is the exact replica of the one-of-a-kind 1917 Curtiss Special biplane. The original was flown by Katherine Stinson in 1918 from Calgary to Edmonton in western Canada's first air mail delivery. The beautiful biplane is the only one lke it in the world, and was built by volunteers at the museum's shop.

The Alberta Aviation Museum is located at 11410 Kingsway in Edmonton, in the last double-wide double-long hangar built during the Second Word War for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

For further information, contact executive director Tom Hinderks, cell 780-907-8455.

Thank you for your interest,

John Chalmers
Board of Directors, Alberta Aviation Museum
Res. 780-435-8194
Cell  780-953-8194

Cell  780-953-8194

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B25D Grumpy will be arriving Monday August 31, 7:30pm,
all other information remains the same…come join us to welcome "Grumpy".

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The Museum's simulators will be the centre of interactive displays in Alberta House, and Dave Heathcoat (Education Director) will be making a number of presentations on both the simulators and simulator training abilities.

The Alberta Aviation Museum is proud to have been invited to be the centrepiece of Alberta House demonstrating our educational and technological capabilities.

Thomas Hinderks
Executive Director
Alberta Aviation Museum
Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society

Eahs.execdirector@shawbiz.ca 

780-907-8455