The Goodyear FG-1D Corsair presently owned and operated by Vintage Wings of Canada was acquired for only one reason - to tell the story of Canada's naval fighter pilots from the Second World War….

At approximately 1015 local time, January 14th, Hawk One arrived from Cold Lake, Alberta overhead Gatineau airport. The temperatures were, well... brutally cold. The sky was without cloud,…

ome time well before May of 1943, a young James Francis "Stocky" Edwards shut down P-40 HS-B, serial number FR350, and walked away from it for the last time. In May of 43, he finished a year-long and stunningly successful tour with 260 Squadron of the RAF - with 13 confirmed kills, a DFM and a DFC. …

After a slow trans-Canada crossing through murk and clag and garbage weather, Tim Leslie flying Hawk One burst into sunlight somewhere east of the West Coast and dropped down through 34,000 feet of sparkling sunlight …

It’s New Year’s Eve 2015. It is a time for reflection and gratitude. For men and women of my parents’ generation, New Year’s Eve holds a special meaning. As they worked their way through the deprivations of the …

When reading or researching history, it is easy to be drawn to the brightest lights, to be mesmerized by and enamoured of uncomplicated storylines, to wish for heroes and villains, to see only the deepest of blacks or the most…

Whenever I picture in my mind the great coming of age of the aircraft carrier, I think of the gargantuan fleet carriers of the US Navy in the Second World War—rust streaked, heaving in cold grey seas, driving through heavy swells under…

On the island of Malta in the endless, hot and dusty summer of 1942, fighter pilots from the British Commonwealth fought and died to prevent the Nazis from bombing the Maltese into submission and to break a crippling siege blockade…

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…

Canada is a country of extreme distances and scattered population. To say that the flying machine has greatly and positively affected our lives is an understatement. To say that most Canadians have never taken the time to fully understand …

This morning, a cold and damp Ottawa April day, our spirits were warmed by the arrival of a sea container full of future dreams and inspiration. Inside the steel grey box from the Aircraft Restoration Company in Duxford…

When Vintage Wings of Canada first opened its doors, it was to a new world of vintage aircraft operation and restoration. Prior to this, Ottawa and Gatineau were ostensibly barrenlands…

Isn't she lovely... Isn't she beautiful... Isn't she precious?” So goes the happy and proud lyrics of Stevie Wonder's song about his new born baby girl. Well, we feel the same way about …

Once again, Gatineau Executive Airport in beautiful Québec, Canada was the site of an historic flight. After nearly five years in the overhaul abyss, the hearty Bristol Pegasus engine powering the Vintage Wings of Canada Fairey Swordfish…

To the west went the Discovery Air Hawk One Sabre, the Robillard Brothers Mustang IV and the Warrant Officer Harry Hannah Stearman. To the east went the four Yellow Wings aircraft – the Finch, Tiger Moth,…

One of the great joys of being part of Vintage Wings of Canada, the foundation created by Michael Potter, is the chance to share its beauty and its mission with friends and strangers alike. There is no better way to do this, to express the passion…

It’s morning on the day of Vintage Wings of Canada’s open house. The early summer sun is now well up into the West Quebec sky, but the shadows are long, the light is sharp and yellow hued and the moisture is still on the ground and not in the air….