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"Finished Crew" - photo from Pat Adams, daughter of Crew Member, Bev Glover, 2nd from right
Writing on the back of the "Finished Crew" photo with first name being H. Burns (Hal), Pilot in Command, from Edmonton, AB, who has become a good friend and supporter of the SavetheCanso project.
Fairview Aircraft Restoration Society would like to extend a very Happy Birthday greeting to one of our "Honourary Flight Crew" for the June 2007, First Flight of the Canso Event.
Mr. Herb Chanin of Winnipeg, travelled to Fairview that weekend to watch the first flight and take part in the festivities.
Herb turns 100 year old on August 5, 2023 and we wish him a Happy Birthday and a day full of friends, family and wonderful memories. We thank him for his service.
Herb is a Veteran of WWII as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) and served in Iceland with 162 Squadron, at a time when our Canso was stationed there and on active patrol duty in 1943-44.
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One of the highlights of the tour will be to reunite the Canso with two veterans who flew and maintained the aircraft while serving with 162 Squadron RCAF in Iceland during the war. They are Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) Herb Chanin who resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, now 100 years old and Flight Officer James McRae of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, who is amazingly now 106 years old. After the successful restoration of the Canso in 2017, both gentlemen travelled to Fairview, Alberta, to be part of our “First Flight” Honourary Flight Crew.
FARS has another exciting plan - an Epic Journey!
During the summer of 2024, FARS is looking into the possibility of a cross-country tour from Fairview to our turn-around point of the tour will be St. Anthony, Newfoundland, where we want to show our deep appreciation for the generosity of their town that allowed us to exchange two timed-out engines for two very serviceable Pratt & Whitney engines that hung on their display Canso in the town center. Their decommissioned aircraft had been gifted to St. Anthony by the Province in memory of two local pilots killed while fighting wildfires.
One of the highlights of the tour will be to reunite the Canso with two veterans who flew and maintained the aircraft while serving with 162 Squadron RCAF in Iceland during the war. They are Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) Herb Chanin who resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, now 100 years old and Flight Officer James McRae of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, who is amazingly now 106 years old. After the successful restoration of the Canso in 2017, both gentlemen travelled to Fairview, Alberta, to be part of our “First Flight” Honourary Flight Crew.
