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Monday, August 10, 2015

Aero Club Of BC 100 Year Celebration.




The Aero Club of BC/COPA Flight 16 is celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Aero Club of BC.   

The club was originally formed in 1915,  (Only six years after the first flight in the then British Empire, at Baddeck N.S. in 1909 in Alexander Graham Bell’s Silver Dart.)    This club lays claim to being the oldest flying club in Canada and possibly in the British Commonwealth!    Aero Club members were instrumental in the founding of YVR on Sea Island, and they also played a prominent role in the British Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP) during WW II. 

Please come out and celebrate this historic milestone with the Aero Club members, at the Pitt Meadows Airport on Saturday,  August 29th. 

A poster and list of the FREE all day activities is attached.      

The day time fly-in and events will be followed by a banquet in the beautiful new Sky Helicopters hangar and the entertainment will be provided by a 1940s swing type band.       In order to allow for the catering requirements it is necessary that the banquet tickets ($45.00) be purchased no later than Tuesday, August 18th.      Tickets can be purchased from Claudine Romani at :  claudine-romani@shaw.ca  or by calling her a 604-612-1774​ c or 604-425-1117​ h. 

For more information, see their web site at:  www.aeroclubofbc.ca/

Let’s all show our support for this historic BC Flying Club and make their day a resounding success.    You will enjoy the historic vignettes that will be presented in the club house throughout the day.     Many of you learned to fly at through the ACBC and is so their will be open microphone sessions to tell your stories.  


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Aero Club of BC
Blue Skies
Phone 604-465-0446




2 comments:

Unknown said...

Note the Claudine phone number is 604-612-1774 not 604-612-2774
The date id August 29th not July 29th

Pacific Pilot said...

Thanks Unknown. I will make the changes.
James.