n the mid 1930s, National Steel Car of Canada, a major builder of rolling stock for Canadian railways, based in Hamilton, Ontario decided to venture into the aviation business as well. For their new aircraft division, they kept their iron horse company name but…

There have been many big developments at Vintage Wings of Canada over the past few months. From a new membership drive and members ride program to ground school education events,…

Last week at Vintage Wings of Canada, the hangar door klaxons sounded their incessant blare, the massive steel doors cracked open and the thin, cold light of an early spring day on the Ottawa River split the hangar like an axe…

After many technical and administrative flaming hoops were jumped through and after a prodigious amount of last minute assistance from the Vintage Wings maintenance team, it was finally time to light…

I know of no other pilot’s seat in all of aviation like the one in a Lysander. It’s a throne. It’s way up high, and climbing up there is like ascending the ratlines of a square-rigged ship…

When the Westland Lysander was first conceived, it offered on paper an exceptional flying platform for reconnaissance, artillery spotting and general liaison duties. Despite its rather strange and perhaps ungainly appearance, the Lysander was…