Archive - Summer 2009
Silver Dart replica wows admirers at annual RAG propeller air show June 6 and 7 before heading out on busy summer schedule
The Welland Silver Dart replica – C-IIGY - drew hundreds of admirers of all ages on Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7 at the Russell Aviation Group’s Friendly Foes Above the Falls 2009 annual air show at Niagara Falls South Airport.
In the accompanying photograph, C-IIGY, in the foreground, shares parking apron space with other vintage aircraft - to the airfield on the right, and with the famous Memphis Bell, B-17 bomber, upper left background, whose engines were being fired up for a flypast minutes after this photo was taken by a member of the AEA 2005 Inc. Silver Dart support team from the airfield’s air traffic control tower.
Many have asked when and where the replica will be seen next. To this end, a preliminary schedule has been prepared to answer this very question. The schedule is listed on the NEWS page of this update.
AEA 2005 Inc. to receive percentage of profits from unique aviation trilogy book-publishing project with Welland author
By Doug Jermyn, President, AEA 2005 Inc.
As reported in the previous update of our website, a new book about how we built the Welland Silver Dart Replica - C-IIGY - over these last five years is now being written and readied for publishing and sales by Welland author Ted Beaudoin and Windfall Associates.
Beaudoin has also been our volunteer media services manager since March 2008.
This new book will be published in a high-quality paperback format, titled C-IIGY Flies! It is one of three, 320-page dramatic aviation adventure and aviation history books in a new aviation book trilogy, titled Walking on Air … each book also contains new colour and black-and-white and previously-unpublished photographs.
The set will be sold through the auspices of the AEA 2005 Inc. Each book and / or the book set will be published and distributed from Welland, making it another Niagara Peninsula venture as is our own Silver Dart project.
The story continues on our NEWS page … please see Walking on Air aviation trilogy now in production