Canadian Lancaster Update

A special thanks go out to Mike Mcanany for sending along this special link from the air demonstration of the only two Lancaster’s capable of flying, in the world, over England during the last few days. This scene of the British and Canadian Lancasters flying in formation later accompanied with a Spitfire and Hurricane fighter is something to see. This is a flash back to the past.

Stuart McLean Revisited

I am sure many of our reader have listened to Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe on CBC Radio. Likewise many of our readers are new to the Coffee Shop, not reading some of our past publications. We thought with all the airport’s terminal controversy going on it would be worth while to revisit the Vinyl Cafe’s past live performance in Gander and listen once more to his views on the history of Gander Airport. Just goes to show why we here at GAHS feel it is so important to not forget what Gander’s role was to world aviation. Sort of stimulates the pride we once had and should keep it alive.

Happy Gander Day 2014

Gander Day will be be celebrated  on Aug 1-4 and we are expecting it be the normal success as we have become accustomed. In preparation we here at GAHS will be adding a new section on our website in the War era to commemorate the event. Thanks to the Gander Beacon and Frank Tibbo, the new added section will be dedicated to the Sir Frederick Banting aircraft accident in 1941 . This long forgotten item in Canada's history has been neglected for too long. It is our intent to readdress this event of it's importance to the history of Gander Airport.

Airport in the News Again

This week’s Beacon announced that the GIA International Lounge is on Canada’s Top Ten list of endangered places by Heritage Canada’s National Trust. The GIAA is not replacing the present terminal because it wants a new terminal so let’s address the elephant in the living room. The present place is too expensive to maintain, realizing present income. The solution is simple. In order to keep the present terminal they need more money. So you either increase the taxes (not a good idea), or somehow give them more money to offset the high maintenance costs. The problem is now in the hands of the Municipal, Provincial and Federal governments. The choices are, an airport that is financially viable without change or an airport financially viable by destroying a heritage treasure.

Website Alteration

For those of you who are frequent visitors to our mothership http://www.ganderairporthistoricalsociety.org , you may have noticed we have discontinued the 'Guest Book' from the home page. It was felt there are adequate avenues to communicate via this blog or through our web-mail. If this brings about problems that might arise, we will put it back up again.