CATP MUSEUM NEWS EVENTS FOR 2016
www.airmuseum.ca/news/2016


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Read the Brandon Sun Coverage of this event reprinted in October's
AS YOU WERE. . . Monthly Military Tribute Webzine
www.hillmanweb.com/war/2016/1610.html


 
 
Her Honour, The Honourable Janice C.  Filmon, C.M., O.M.,
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba 
will be laying a wreath at the 
“They Grew’ Not Old” Memorial Monument 
at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon MB.
The Tribute will take place on 
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 at 2 PM

2016 is the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Women’s Division of the RCAF. 
The RCAF was the first of the armed services to invite women into their ranks and not just as an auxiliary but as a division of their own. The Museum will be paying tribute to the 31 RCAF Women’s Division Personnel who died during the Second World War and are listed on the Monument.

Brigadier General Kenny of RCAF 1 Canadian Air Division and RCAF 17 Wing C/O Col. Cook will also be in attendance. 

2016 is also the 75th anniversary of the official opening of Service Flying Training School #12 where the Museum is now housed and this is the year the RCAF has chosen to commemorate the Commonwealth Air Training Plan.  Winston Churchill declared the plan to be: “Canada’s greatest contribution to the Allied Victory”.

Coffee will be served after the service.
The public is encouraged to attend.

WWII veterans are asked to contact the Museum at
204-727-2444 about seating.

For more information, please contact:
Judith Grierson at 
jkgmyvw@gmail.com or 204-724-0802

or 
Stephen Hayter at 
airmuseum@inetlink.ca
or 204-727-2444
Prairie Author to Speak at Museum Luncheon
Anne Gafiuk has a close relationship with the Bomber Command Museum in Nanton, Alberta. They have published two of her books and she is working on a third. 

All three of her books centre on the how the people of the prairies ‘did their bit’ during the Second World War. Anne will be speaking to the 

Women of the War Years Luncheon on 
Wednesday, October 5th
in the Museum’s historic Canteen. 

Her topic will be her second book “She Made Them Family”. The Women of the War Years Committee is raising funds for their travelling display.  The Display tells the story of how the Women of World War II took on roles that opened the door for future generations.

Tickets may still be available for the luncheon;  please call 204-728-4616.

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
At The
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE AIR SHOW

The CATPM made its presence known at the Air Show in Portage La Prairie June 4, 2016. 
We took a well-stocked trailer of items from the Museums Gift Shop and 
set up shop on the "cold ramp" beside
the 1940 Harvard MKIIa, 1943 Cornell and the 1940 Stinson HW75. 
Grant Shaw brought the 1940 Chevy Staff car on display and 
we used it to shuttle our volunteers to and from the gate. 
~ John McNarry


 Souvenir Shop

John and Janice Ukrainec and Angus and Lorrie Sneesby helped Jan with the store.


CATPM display


CATPM display


CATPM display

 After the flying demonstrations we parked the Museum's aircraft around
the CF-18 from 3Wing Bagotville that has been painted to honour the BCATP.


Our "rigger" Alan McNarry 
dressed in his "ground crew" whites 
in honour of
the ground crew staff of WWII

"Look, there is a Fleet Finch!" 
 

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John McNarry our "fitter" 
standing below the CF-18's right hand tail fin 
with a Harvard, Anson and WWII crews 
depicted on well painted aircraft. 



 Our Cornell with a pilot and WD standing beside the fitter.



Here is the "rigger" ready to show air show patrons the cockpits of the Harvard.
Who knows, maybe one of the many young people he helped to sit in the aircraft may go on to join our modern forces. . .



Jan McNarry  ready for the crowd with her well displayed wares.



Mark, our newest Aircrew member, flying home after the show.



Where to tomorrow?
 
 


MUSEUM PHOTO ALBUM
A few more vintage WWII Aircraft in the CATPM Fleet


Bolingbrooke



Beech 18



 
 
 

MANITOBA’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED WITH AIR MUSEUM
FREE OPEN HOUSE

In honour of Manitoba’s 146th birthday, 
the Commonwealth Air Training Plan (CATP) Museum 
is hosting a free Open House on May 12th from 10 a.m. to 
4 p.m. at the Brandon Municipal Airport. 
Travel back to the 1940s as you wander through a WWII vintage hangar 
serving as a display area for aircraft, vehicles and hundreds of artifacts from that era.

May 1st begins our new summer hours, 10 am to 4 pm, seven days a week until the end of September.

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is Canada’s only air museum 
solely dedicated to the preservation of those who trained and fought for the British Commonwealth during WWII. 

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is proud to be one of the six Manitoba Signature Museums, 
a Manitoba Star Attraction and a National Historic Site. 
Visit the CATP Museum located at Brandon Municipal Airport, on HW #10, 1.6 km north of the City of Brandon.

For more information about the CATPM’s Manitoba Day Open House, please contact:

Stephen Hayter, Executive Director
Ph: 727-2444  Fax:725-2334  Email: airmuseum@inetlink.ca


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