A look at some of our creative Canada Day Greetings from past years…

A look at some of our creative Special Day Greetings from past years…

A look at some of our creative Pearl Harbor Day Greetings from past years…

A look at some of our creative Remembrance Day Greetings from past years…

A look at some of our creative Christmas greeting from past years…

As I stepped off the B-767 in Auckland, I was aware of two feelings: a deep fatigue generated by 3 days travel from Canada, and a mounting excitement rising from the understanding that I was very close to the…

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…

The Spitfire has a form so achingly beautiful that it can reduce grown men to tears. Its iconic, graceful wing and purposeful silhouette are recognized to this day by not only the “greatest generation”, but by their children and grandchildren the world over. It embodied a Saxon fighting spirit,…

he year was 1962. The month was June. The day was “Air Force Day” in the Nation’s Capital - a hot and muggy day with a thin layer of high grEy cloud obscuring the shape of the sun but blocking none of its blistering heat….

Vintage Wings aircraft maintainer, phantom bucket man and boulevardier Marty Periard shows us he is a true renaissance man with these …

Dave Hadfield takes the Vintage Wings of Canada Fox Moth down to New York state tis weekend and met up with….

Since being acquired by Vintage Wings of Canada from Pacific Fighters of Idaho Falls, Idaho back before Christmas of last year, our Vought F4U-4 Corsair has spent the winter months in more pleasant skies than available to her in Ottawa…

Late last week, New Zealand photographer Gavin Conroy took to the clear Kiwi air over Ardmore near Auckland and shot some immaculate images of the Stocky Edwards P-40 Kittyhawk….

It is a Monday and late in the afternoon out on the ramp at Vintage Wings of Canada’s hangar along the Ottawa River. It is one of only a handful of glorious afternoons we have been granted this summer. ..

After publishing the initial historical research results into the records acquired with the purchase of the Vintage Wings of Canada Mustang IV (9575) and after exhausting all other information sources it looked as if we…

Over the years, the mission of Vintage Wings of Canada has become more defined as the collection has grown from 5 aiplanes to 19. Our focus has clearly become the telling of stories about Canada's aviation heroes, aircraft designs and history….

Last week was an exciting time at Vintage Wings of Canada and at Cold Lake Alberta. Paul Kissmann flew Hawk One out to the frozen sweep of Cold Lake and the vast Primrose range trailing a U-Haul full of hope and excitement. He was met there by his old friends from the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment,…

Why celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Powered Flight in Canada? This is a question I have been asking myself quite often as of late. ..

Paul Kissmann, test pilot for the Hawk One Sabre program took our baby into the skies this past weekend - one year after she landed…

If you want to be part of one of the most exciting things to happen to Ottawa/Gatineau in decades, but can only devote a couple of days each summer, have we got a job for you! …