Down at the Stampede grounds yesterday I wandered into the Agrium tent. Inside the aerospace museum had a cropduster set up on display, next to it was a sandwich billboard that said:
"See the Lancaster, August 4th to 8th, SAIT Aerocentre"
Now the aviation geek in me went absolutely nuts upon seeing this. Since there are no Lancasters airside at YYC (the aerospace museum has one on static display) that means that one of the
two airworthy ones in the world will be flying in for this!
Preliminary checks with some of my sources say to keep an eye out for it arriving on Tuesday, August 3rd around 3pm.
I will update this thread as I hear more details on this awesome visit!
Lancaster wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_La...iving_aircraft
Edit: Tour info
http://www.warplane.com/Planetalk/LancTour2010.html
Edit 2: More info on hours of viewing:
http://www.my.calendars.net/aerospac...&positioning=A