Wing and a Prayer

In conjunction with the Canadian Aviation Historical Society, we're presenting two nights of Canadian aviation history on film. Doors open at 6:30 pm and films start at 7:00 pm. Admission is just $5 per person to cover a full evening.

Difficult to fly, easy to ground-loop – an entire generation of pilots earned their wings on the Boeing Stearman. It was an aircraft adopted by the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943 as a supplemental trainer for the Tiger Moth. Prized for its advanced performance capabilities, it was soon rejected be

Tom Lamb once shuttled 16 beavers as part of a program to restock beavers into lakes around The Pas. It was the 1940s and, hard as it is to believe today, beavers had become almost extinct across Manitoba. As he tells the tale, at 6,000 feet, the critters started escaping from their gunnysacks. The

The angled blades you see on the front of many helicopters are not radio antennas or hood ornaments as many might believe. They are the components that make up the Wire Strike Protection System (WSPS). Developed between 1977-1979 – in response to a request from the Canadian Forces – Bristol Aerospa

Family memberships are an important source of revenue for our museum as we receive only 10% of our annual funding from government sources. Here’s the Top Ten Reasons why a membership in the Western Canada Aviation Museum – only $50 a year – is the best value in town for family entertainment:

ORIGINAL ARTICLE BY ED UNRAU In the 1962 cartoon, “The Jetsons”, George Jetson commutes to work in an aerocar that resembles a flying saucer with a transparent bubble top.  And just a few short years later, in September 1969, National Geographic published an article titled, “The Coming Revolution in

If you ‘re like most business travellers, you’ll recognize that the golden era of business travel has come and gone.  Today’s security procedures, delays, line-ups and documentation have made it more of an endurance test than a perk of the job. But in 1920, Frank Stanley took a ‘flyer’ on how he cou

  It was a tough year for our renowned restoration team. We lost five of our volunteers this year — a great loss, not only of good friends and co-workers but also, the loss of their particular technical expertise will have a great effect on our future restoration efforts. This year’s honour roll inc

In early December 1935, two men flew over the last unexplored area on earth – the Antarctic. One of them was the American world-famous explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and the other was Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, a Canadian Airways Ltd. pilot based in Winnipeg.  Among his qualifications, Hollick-Kenyon had e

January 24, 2012 The Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg Airports Authority, and Exchange Income Corporation announced today plans for building infrastructure to forever connect Manitoba to its aviation roots, provide new connections with the North and a state of the art vision for the future.