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The southern portion flew west to east from Comox,

B.C. starting on 23 May and end at Yarmouth, Nova
Scotia September 12.

This cross Canada flight will stop at all each provincial

capital as well as in Ottawa. On board the aircraft will
be the "baton" (actually a black briefcase) which will

De Havilland Canada Chipmunk DHC-1 contain special mint coins issued by the Royal Canadian
G-AKDN — 2016 United Kingdom Tour Mint and commemorative stamps issued by Canada
Pt. 13 Post, cancelled in Baddeck on the Anniversary date,
By Dave Gillespie affixed to a specifically designed envelope. These will

be presented to the provincial Premiers and the
KDN with James, Saskatchewan Governor General of Canada.
MLA Laura Ross, Dave, Terry
Lyons, handing over the
"batton" to be delivered to KDN was chosen to pick up the baton from an F-18
Brandon Manitoba. from Cold Lakeland fly the leg from Regina to Brandon

Manitoba, and hand it off to a Harvard. James and I
Lights camera action! Besides being a centerfold in arrived and departed on time from Regina, to arrive in
EAA Vintage Aircraft magazine, KDN has also been time to hand off the bag to the Harvard, which
featured in a TV commercial advertising high speed departed quickly as a monster thunderstorm hit the
Internet for the provincial telecommunications airport as we pushed KDN into the BCATP Museum.

company SaskTel. With a 35mm camera in the front
Soaked to the skin we spent the night and got to know
seat, I flew formation and aerobatics from the back
the people at this incredible museum. Since then we
seat. KDN is unique in that it can be soloed from
have become pilot volunteers for the museum, flying
either seat. Another indication of the lightweight and
their Tiger Moth, Cornell, and Harvard. A few years
different handling quality compared to the
later, this museum flying experience would be key to
production models. We continued to fly and display
allowing me to fly another very exciting aircraft…the
the airplane at events all over Western Canada.
Spitfire!
Graham Fox would arrive each fall and do the annual

inspections, while our local AME Doug Tomlinson

would guide us in the day-to-day maintenance. We
to be continued...
continued to fly it during summers and stored it over

the winters.

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One the 100 anniversary of flight in Canada we
contributed to the celebrations and flew a leg in the
Back to Beddeck program. This was a coast to coast
rally flown by vintage aircraft. The northern portion
of the relay started in Greenwood, Nova Scotia on 5
March 2009 going west across the Canadian north to
end up in Comox, B.C. by May.