Nearly 100 people piled into a hangar near the Charlottetown Airport on Monday to celebrate the centennial of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Debbie Reid, president of the RCAF Association 201 (Confederation) Wing in Charlottetown, was one of them. The retired sergeant, who served in the military for 23 years, was a proud member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, she said.
"I loved being in the uniform. I loved working in the military," she said. Key Second World War plane to visit P.
E.I. as part of RCAF's 100th anniversary P.
E.I. veterans will soon have their own therapeutic gardening program Reid said she is honoured to be involved in this centenary events.
"P.E.I.
is great," she said. "When you ask people to come together, they definitely come together. To [have] this many people who came in today.
.. is fantastic.
" For the RCAF's anniversary, a Canso airplane, of the type that played a significant role in the Second World War, made it all the way from Alberta to P.E.I.
After the aging aircraft had been found near the shore outside Inuvik, N.W.T.
, it was put on custom-made skis and pulled out of the water before making its way to Alberta. For RCAF anniversary events in Charlottetown this week, one of the Canso airplanes that played a significant role in the Second World War made it all the way from Alberta to P.E.
I. (Jane Robertson/CBC) Prince Edward Islander Carl Farnsworth flew on the Canso during the war. The RCAF flight engineer thought he'd never see the aircraft again.
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