The Regina Chapter (Roland Groome) of the CAHS meets on the 2nd Thursday of every month, except for July and August, at 1930 hrs in the clubhouse of the historic Regina Flying Club at the Regina International Airport. This is the blue/white one-story building south of the club's hangar (it sits only 50 feet from a 1930-vintage hangar that was on the Prairie airmail route during the early 1930's).

Thursday, December 9, 2004

And now for something completely different...

The next meeting of our chapter of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society will be a joint venture with the local wing (or chapter) of the Air Force Association of Canada (formerly the RCAF Association). Our two groups, which have a lot of overlapping interests and membership, have held joint Christmas banquets in the past, always as the Regina Flying Club.

This year, we're joining the AFAC 600 Wing and its members for a Christmas supper at the Royal United Services Institute, which is at 1660 Elphinstone St. -- the RUSI is the white one-story building south of the Regina Armory.

This supper takes place on the evening of Thursday, Dec.9, drinks at 6 p.m. and supper at 7 p.m. The AFAC needs a "head count", so it asks those attending to R.S.V.P. to the AFAC's Lyn Chamberlain at 949-4491 NO LATER THAN Dec. 5.

Cost: $20 per person.

Dress: semi-formal.

(Say, did we mention that you have to R.S.V.P. NO LATER THAN DEC. 5?)

Among the events that evening will be CAHS member Geoff Hillier's talk on the flying gauntlets left to him by his late father, a member of the RAF killed in action in 1944.

This is probably as good a place as any to mention the future speakers we're arranged:

January: Dave Wilson, whose father worked for the famous Orenda engine works in the 1950s;

February: Col. Alain Boyer, wing commander of 15 Wing, Moose Jaw, on his own career and on recent developments at the training base.

March: Harold Eley, on the renowned Regina Gliding & Soaring Club, which was the talk of the town in the 1950s and '60s.

We apologize for any cross-postings. We just wanna get the word out!

(Oh, yeah ... for the supper, you have to R.S.V.P. NO LATER THAN DEC. 5)

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Speaker: Gerry Carline will show slides of Britain's Newark Air Museum.
For more information, call Will Chabun at 306-586-7091 or e-mail us at cahsregina@hotmail.com.

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Thursday, June 10, 2004

Speaker: Reginan John Kurtz, a civilian employee at 15 EFTS in Regina during the Second World War.
For more information, call Will Chabun at 306-586-7091 or e-mail us at cahsregina@hotmail.com.

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Speaker: Moose Jaw's Al Seward, wartime Canso patrol pilot and postwar RCAF search-and-rescue (SAR) pilot.
For more information, call Will Chabun at 306-586-7091 or e-mail us at cahsregina@hotmail.com.

Pat Bay hangar Talk

New at Victoria Air Maint.
2 YAK18T's arrived from Bulgaria in a container.
A Ryan ST is in for major overhaul and restoration of the cockpit opening to the original size . A Turbo Mallard is in for minor work. In progress is an Italian Army SM 1019 (L-19 with an Allison turboprop) for a customer. There is one flying already and it reportedly climbs like the proverbial "homesick angel ".Harvard and Texan progressing.
Apparently the Harvard 4 is going to be a Reno Racer. A Maule is nearing completion. They sold an Ercoupe sight unseen on E-Bay. A 3rd Legends (1/2 scale Mustang) a/c is under construction. As you probably know it is mainly carbon fibre material and is powered by a Czech M-601 turboprop .
BCAM
Anson-
Wing- port wing being planked. Wing to Fuselage fairings being fitted. Port Aileron covering underway.
Auster-
Elevators, Rudder installed. Tires and brakes on.
Looks like a real airplane now.
T-33 -462
Front and rear instrument panels restoring in progress. Seats removed for cockpit cleaning and restoration. Repairs to engine air intakes underway.

Thursday June 12, 2003

Members' night with special tribute to the slides of the late, great Andy Graham (via Greg Putz and Steve Fochuk).

This meeting takes place at the clubhouse of the Regina Flying Club at the Regina Airport. Starts at 7.30 p.m. ALL AVIATION HISTORY BUFFS ARE MOST DECIDEDLY WELCOME!

Incidentally, we've been putting news of upcoming aviation events in Saskatchewan onto our web site just as fast as our chubby little fingers can type 'em in. If you have additional events, send 'em to us at cahsregina@hotmail.com.

Thursday, February 13

Regina writer Stephen King, author of 2002's Your Loving Son -- Letters of an RCAF Navigator.
Stephen will talk about how he researched this book, which is based on the letters of his late uncle. (His book is published by the U of R's Canadian Plains Research Centre, $19.95.)!

Thursday, March 13

Remote sensing expert Jack Mollard. Jack's recent Order of Canada was the latest in a line of honours to Jack, who's been involved in remote sensing from aircraft, helicopters and now satellites for over 50 years. He's bringing a special slide show that could be one of the most interesting presentations ever seen by our chapter. Jack is not a pilot, but says, "I've spent half my life in the air".

Both of these meetings will take place in the clubhouse of the Regina Flying Club. For more information, call Will Chabun at 586-7091or e-mail him at cahsregina@hotmail.com

Thursday June 13, 2002

The next meeting of the Roland Groome Chapter of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) will be held at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, 2002 in the clubhouse of the Regina Flying Club at the Regina Airport. ALL ARE WELCOME!

• Speaker: Bruce Cooke on his service as an engineering officer aboard the aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure. For more information, call Will Chabun at 586-7091 or e-mail us at cahsregina@hotmail.com
• We have also assembled an interesting list of guest speakers for this autumn and into January.
  - September: Tom Wakeling, who was a student, and then an instructor, at the RCAF's wartime No. 11 Service Flying Training School at Yorkton
  - October: Chris Oleson on his career in the RCMP Air Service Directorate (formerly the RCMP's "Air" Division.)
  - November: To be announced
  - December: Jean Thomas on her research, done in the 1950s, into the heroic (and dangerous) work of European resistance fighters in helping down Allied airmen during the Second World War.
  - January: Col. Bruce McQuade, wing commander of the Canadian Forces' 15 Wing, Moose Jaw.

Wednesday December 13, 2001

• Speaker:  Moose Jaw's Gerry Carline and "The Story of W.W. Gyles, a Canadian First World War Fighter Pilot":
• Here's something important.
  This talk will be preceded by our annual pre-Christmas supper at the flying club for CAHS chapter members and all interested aviation buffs. But if you're coming to the supper (it's buffet-style, eh?) it is ESSENTIAL that you pre-register with member Zoltan Bodas. Contact him at 306-924-2046 or zbodas@sk.sympatico.ca.  Why is registration so important? Because in past years, some folks FORGOT to tell us they were coming, but showed up anyway. That meant there were more people than expected and the club ran low on food.
  
  The cost of the meal should be about $15, payable at the door. ****************************************
  
  DID YOU KNOW THERE IS NOW A WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THE AVIATION HISTORY OF SASKATCHEWAN?
  
  It's ours
  
  http://communities.msn.ca/cahsregina

Wednesday October 3, 2001

• Speaker: former RCAF photographer Dick Nakamura.
• Please note that the timing of Dick's visit to Regina, where he lived for many years while head of public relations for the PRFA, has required us to change the timing of our monthly meeting, usually held on the second Thursday of the month, to this date. Please tell other aviation history buffs of this event.

Thursday September 13, 2001

• The first meeting of the fall season for the Roland Groome Chapter of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) in Regina will be held at 7.30p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13 in the clubhouse on the Regina Flying Club.  Subject: a talk on the RCAF's wartime No. 2 Bombing & Gunnery School at Mossbank, Saskatchewan, by Arni Olafson, a former staff pilot there. Arni has indicated he’ll talk about the excellent 2 B&G display in the town’s museum and will bring along some artifacts.  For more information, call chapter president Peter Maw at (306) 584-2470 or e-mail us at cahsregina@hotmail.com.

Thursday March 8, 2001

• Lionel Hastings, ex-navigator on Mitchells (98 Squadron, RAF) will talk about his experiences as a "guinea pig" in the renowned hospital at East Grinstead during the Second World War. In particular, Lionel will talk about the new book on Canadian "guinea pigs".

• Anybody in Regina/Moose Jaw on the evening of Thursday, March 8, is very welcome to drop in. 

The above information comes from the desk of the Roland Groome Chapter of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Our chapter commemorates the name of pioneer aviator Roland Groome, who held the first commercial pilot's licence in Canada (1920) and owned the first registered aircraft in this country - Canadian-built JN-4(Can) Canuck G-CAAA.
For more information about our chapter, surf to:  http://communities.msn.ca/cahsregina

For more information about the monthly meetings or about the Regina Chapter of the CAHS please contact:  Peter Maw, Regina Chapter President, (306) 584-2470  wchabun@sk.sympatico.ca

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