Obituary: Kenneth Lett, pilot who flew Spitfires at D-Day, supersonic jets in Cold War Kenneth Lett, who has died at 100, was the guest of honour last July when the B.C. Aviation Museum in Sidney took possession of one of the last remaining CF-104 Starfighter jets Darron Kloster May 25, 2024 4:24 AM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Previous Next 1 / 1 Eighteen pilots who flew the CF-104 Starfighter supersonic jet from 1962 to 1987, including Kenneth Lett, front right, gathered at the B.
C. Aviation Museum last summer to welcome the fighter plane to the museum. TIMES COLONIST Advertisement Expand Listen to this article 00:04:19 Kenneth Lett, who flew Spitfires during the D-Day landings and was in the cockpit of Canada’s first supersonic jet fighter during the Cold War, has died at the age of 100.
Lett, who flew from 1941 to 1989 and also ran one of the country’s most successful aviation businesses, died last week in Victoria. Lett was the guest of honour last July when the B.C.
Aviation Museum in Sidney took possession of one of the last remaining CF-104 Starfighter jets — the first aircraft to hit Mach 2, twice the speed of sound. He spent “thousands of hours” in the Starfighter and, as squadron leader, trained dozens of other pilots in the nuclear-capable jet during the Cold War. “It’s wonderful and so good to see it again .
.. it always was a beautiful airplane,” he told the Times Colonist last su.
