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The Ellis Collection
The Ellis Collection documents Frank Ellis’s activities
and achievements as an aviation historian of Canada’s
early flying history – his aircraft modeling hobby, his
personal membership affiliations with many aviation clubs
and writers’ associations, his many guest appearances, his
literary pursuits in creative writing, the development of his
ideas, games and inventions and artistic production of
same, and aspects of his personal life and experiences.
The collection mainly consists of correspondence,
author’s drafts, unpublished manuscripts (e.g., Signs are
for Squares), speeches, lecture notes, autobiographies and
interviews, photographs, negatives and slides, cartoons,
clippings, ephemera, publications, sounds recordings, and
various artifacts of his inventions, awards and modeling.
The collections has been organized into six parts: writing
activities; aircraft modeling activities; personal Sole Survivor is a CBS Friday Night Movie directed
membership affiliations; ideas and inventions; private by Paul Stanley and starring Richard Basehart,
papers; and memorabilia.
William Shatner, and Vince Edwards. The film,
written by screenwriter Guerdon Trueblood, was
first aired on television in 1970. While the film
follows the fate of the 6-man crew of a B-25
Mitchell bomber, it is loosely based on the 1958
discovery of the B-24 Liberator bomber Lady Be
Good in the Libyan desert.
The Lady Be Good and her 9-man crew had
disappeared without a trace in 1943, following its
first and only combat mission in World War II.
The bodies of 8 of the crew were found in 1960.
Click on Movie Poster to watch now.
Arrow II Project

From our hangar at Springbank Airport, construction of a
60% scale piloted replica of the Avro Arrow is under way

All are welcome to visit the hangar during one of our
public open houses, held on the second Sunday of each
month between 12pm - 3pm
Next open house - April 8, 2017