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A Few CANADIAN Aviation Facts for April
1978 –The Canadian Snowbirds aerobatic team 1937 – No. 3 Repair Depot authorized to form at
officially becomes the 431 Air Demonstration Vancouver.
Squadron.
1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1924 – Most of the aviation work that had been done
in British Columbia up to 1924 was done in 1917 – The prelude to the battle of Vimy Ridge began
conjunction with the Air Board, then the Canadian Air as the Canadian gunners started pounding the
Force and finally the Royal Canadian Air Force which German defences, from small howitzers to huge naval
came into being. The RCAF withdrew from patrol guns, using a nearly limitless supply of ammunition. It
duties despite its success in this role. A few of the was the largest artillery poundings in history up to
people who had been flying for the military until this that point, using over one million shells. The attack
time decided to strike out on their own. They wanted lasted for seven days, and was loud enough to be
to form independent companies, and still make a heard in London. Germans in the front line trenches
living doing what they enjoyed most – Flying. Don later called it “the week of suffering. ”
McLaren was one such person and he formed a
company called Pacific Airways, in February 1925
