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The Story of Sid Bregman 80 Glorious Years JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM 80 GLORIOUS YEARS Canadian Warplane Heritage’s DC-3 THE STORY OF SID BREGMAN And Spitfire MJ627 President & Chief Executive Officer David G. Rohrer Vice President – External Client Services Manager Controller Operations Cathy Dowd Brenda Shelley Sandra Price Curator Education Services Vice President – Finance Erin Napier Manager Ernie Doyle Howard McLean Flight Coordinator Chief Engineer Laura Hassard-Moran Donor Services Jim Van Dyk Manager Retail Manager Sally Melnyk Marketing Manager Shawn Perras Al Mickeloff Building Maintenance Volunteer Services Manager Food & Beverage Manager Administrator Jason Pascoe Anas Hasan Toni McFarlane Board of Directors Christopher Freeman, Chair David Ippolito Robert Fenn Sandy Thomson, Ex Officio John O’Dwyer Patrick Farrell Bruce MacRitchie, Ex Officio David G. Rohrer Art McCabe Nestor Yakimik, Ex Officio Barbara Maisonneuve David Williams Stay Connected Subscribe to our eFlyer Canadian Warplane warplane.com/mailing-list-signup.aspx Heritage Museum 9280 Airport Road Read Flightlines online warplane.com/about/flightlines.aspx Mount Hope, Ontario L0R 1W0 Like us on Facebook facebook.com/Canadian Phone 905-679-4183 WarplaneHeritageMuseum Toll free 1-877-347-3359 (FIREFLY) Fax 905-679-4186 Follow us on Twitter Email [email protected] @CWHM Web warplane.com Watch videos on YouTube youtube.com/CWHMuseum JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 Shop our Gift Shop warplane.com/gift-shop.aspx CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM Follow Us on Instagram instagram.com/ canadianwarplaneheritagemuseum Volunteer Editor: Bill Cumming Flightlines is the official publication of the Canadian 80 GLORIOUS YEARS Canadian Warplane Heritage’s DC-3 Warplane Heritage Museum. It is a benefit of membership THE STORY OF SID BREGMAN And Spitfire MJ627 and is published six times per year (Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr, May/June, July/Aug, Sept/Oct, Nov/Dec). Cover: Our DC-3 painted as Readers are encouraged to submit articles and photos. All “Canucks Unlimited”. KOOL SHOTS contributions published with the author’s name is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinions and policies of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Printed in Canada by Responsibility for accuracy rests solely with the author. ©2019 Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. All rights reserved. News Welcome to 2019 NEW ARCHIVES As we move into 2019, the 47th year of Canadian Warplane SHELVING Heritage’s existence, planning is well underway for After a week of installation, the museum’s archives is being celebrations of our Golden anniversary in 2022. Reflecting remapped and reorganized with a brand-new shelving back on my 45-year association with the museum, I have system. The system is museum-standard for preserving been fortunate to witness its growth from early beginnings and storing artifacts and increases storage capacity in the old wartime hangars to the world-class museum it is by 50 percent! today. As mentioned in the last issue of Flightlines, we will be producing a book to document our history from day one. An exciting project, but we need input from the membership and volunteers to provide your first-hand accounts of those early days. If you have an anecdote or story or memory from the early days, please feel free to contact us. 2019 will be another exciting year to be part of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Another busy flying program is planned for the coming year, and along with the other regular flying aircraft, we expect to see the Firefly, Harvard and Avenger return to the air. In this issue of Flightlines, we tell the story of the Museum’s MILLAR EMILY DC-3 “Canucks Unlimited,” one of the oldest DC-3 aircraft still operational in the world. The article highlights the colourful career of the aircraft. Although the museum’s HARVARD UPDATE DC-3 is 80 years old this year, the DC-3 and its variants The Museum’s Harvard Mk. IV, RCAF #20213 (CF-UUU) will always be known as the “Queen of the Skies.” was built by Canadian Car & Foundry, Thunder Bay, Ontario in late 1951. The aircraft saw service at four RCAF flying Following on from the Spitfire theme as presented in the schools across the nation until it was sold to a civilian owner previous issue of Flightlines, we feature the story about RCAF in 1965. It was the third aircraft to join the Museum after pilot Sid Bregman of 441 Squadron, and his Spitfire MJ627. Dennis Bradley, Alan Ness and John Weir donated it in 1973. Spitfire MJ627 is still operational today, and CWH member In 2019, #20213 is scheduled into the paint shop to be Peter Allam relates his experience of flying in this classic repainted exactly how it would have looked at RCAF Station fighter. Centralia, circa 1960. You will notice that in this issue of Flightlines we have slightly modified the layout and design of the magazine, to bring it up to a new presentation level. We welcome your comments about Flightlines, its articles, format and contents. Enjoy this issue! Bill Cumming, Volunteer Editor [email protected] AL MICKELOFF AL MICKELOFF STARFIGHTER REPAINTING Following final stripping and prep work by volunteers, our CF-104D Starfighter, RCAF #12641, is scheduled to be repainted in early 2019. The RCAF era scheme markings are to be applied, then it will finally be remounted outside at the front of the museum. Watch for an article on #12641 in a future issue of Flightlines. VOICES FROM THE PAST Burma Memories Since 2001, museum volunteers have been diligently video recording the World War II memories of air force personnel from World War II. To date, these Voices From the Past volunteers have recorded over 400 interviews. With editing assistance from Felipe Belalcazar, their latest finished production,Burma Memories, premieres in January on the Museum’s YouTube page at www.youtube.com/user/CWHMuseum. Burma Memories features first hand experiences of Canadians flying Dakotas in Burma during World War II. GREY CUP FLIES ON LANCASTER Lancaster VR-A had a special guest on board for its Remembrance Day service flight – the Grey Cup! We couldn’t resist adding our own touch and “zapping” it with our logo on its way into the aircraft. DAVID BLAIS DAVID 5 News REMEMBRANCE DAY FLIGHT Letter from Vince Jones, Lancaster Passenger BOLINGBROKE Flying in the Lancaster, especially on the 11th day at the 11th hour of the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI RESTORATION UPDATE was unique in so many ways. What I didn’t realize is how much my experience meant to everyone else around me. The Bristol Bolingbroke restoration has been the longest and more complicated aircraft restoration projects undertaken My family came to attend and support the Remembrance by the museum. For over 30 years, a dedicated and talented Service and also to see one of my dreams unfold. I have team has been working with several discarded and scattered a great uncle who was lost at the Somme in 1916, an uncle Bolingbroke aircraft and parts in the hope of restoring one who was a sapper/paratrooper downed in a Stirling on airworthy Bolingbroke aircraft for the museum collection. D-Day, and a grandfather who survived WWI and WWII and was rescued off the beaches at Dunkirk, so family lore At a recent team meeting with senior museum staff and this goes. My son was in the 2010 Canadian Battle Group for very dedicated and industrious volunteer restoration team, a tour of duty in Afghanistan. He is home and doing well. the status and scope of the project were reviewed at length. I know everyone has reasons for wanting to do this. These After a very thoughtful and open group discussion and are just some of mine. in consideration of the real world challenges involved in restoring and then safely operating an airworthy Bolingbroke, I’m still trying to process everything that transpired. The it was decided by the team to continue to restore this Hercules and B-25 escort was just another layer of WOW! Bolingbroke aircraft for ground operations. For years I have been looking up whenever I hear the Lancaster coming… there is no mistaking the roar of those The project team now has a new and achievable mandate Merlins. My wife realized that this was important to me and so and a plan to dedicate and welcome this completed it became important to her. And it was amazing. I just wanted Bolingbroke aircraft into the collection in honour of 119 to share how special it was for us for different reasons. It could “Tiger” Squadron during the museum’s 50th Anniversary have been even colder and I don’t think that I would have celebrations in 2022. noticed. I certainly would never have complained. How could you, when you get just a small sense of what these young men We are excited about this new and achievable vision for the went through for their families and for all of us. project and know that a complete Bolingbroke aircraft will be fitting tribute to all those staff and volunteers who have worked so hard over the last 30 years to complete this important restoration. CANSO FLIGHTS A full season of flying is planned for the Museum’s PBY Canso this year. Timing for passenger rides has been extended to 60 minutes so that the Canso flies over Niagara Falls. Flight experience costs $650 (plus membership) and a total of 4 seats are available per flight. Nothing beats the view from the side blister – great for photographers! BLAIS DAVID FIREFLY WINGS The Engineering Department are in the process of replacing the Fairey Firefly’s internal wing folding mechanism parts with custom made replacements. These parts will allow the wings to be re-attached in the near future.
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