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Paul Seguna : Paul is a founding member of the CAAA who has served as Alberta and BC
Regional Coordinator and CAAA Vice-President.

He retired from the Canadian Armed Forces in September of 2017 after a career spanning
forty-two years in the Canadian Naval Reserve (as a Radar Plotter), Regular Navy (as a Ship’s
Officer and Shipborne Air Controller) and Canadian Forces Public Affairs Branch (as a Public
Affairs Officer).

Born in Australia, he has had a lifelong interest in art and aviation and resides in Victoria,
British Columbia.

Created in tribute to the 75th Anniversary of the
Canadian Air Force, this painting symbolizes one of
the truly outstanding contributions made by Canada
to the allied victory in WW II. The British
Commonwealth Air Training Program (BCATP) was
of such importance to the war effort that US
President Roosevelt was moved to call Canada the
"Aerodrome of democracy". In a very short time
BCATP airfields sprang up at over 100 locations
across Canada with the skies reverberating with the
sound of aero engines propelling yellow trainers. The
aircraft depicted in the painting is an AVRO Anson
returning to its airfield in the Canadian hinterland
from one of the thousands of flights conducted in the
training of over 100,000 airmen from the many
countries in the allied cause. The farming machinery
in the foreground is a symbolic counterbalance to the
airplane and represents Canada's rapid transition in
these years from an agricultural society to an
aviation powerhouse of first order.

Ground Support Aviano

Canadian CF-18 fighter-bombers from 441 Squadron based in Cold
Lake, Alberta, were deployed to the NATO airbase in Aviano, Italy
during the Kosovo air campaign. The CF-18s were worked on by
their ground crews in all weather conditions in support of air
operations. This painting, commissioned by 441 Squadron, was
one of eight created by several artists under special commission
documenting the squadron's operations during that air campaign.