
Dennis
J. Bradley
Mr. Bradley - Founding President of the Canadian Warplane Heritage
Museum, an avid aircraft owner and restorer, world champion
offshore boat racer and successful businessman.
Allan
Ness
Mr. Ness was an aircraft owner and pilot. He trained as a wireless
air gunner in World War II. In business life he was an investment
counselor. He gave his life to flying. Alan Ness, lost his life
when the Fairey Firefly he was piloting crashed into Lake Ontario.
The aircraft would be replaced by another and Ness' memory is
carried on through the awarding of the "Alan Ness Memorial Trophy"
given annually to a deserving member of the museum.
Timothy
Peter Matthews
Mr. Matthews - An aircraft owner and aviation enthusiast with
a lifelong love of flying. In business life, an investment advisor
and financial consultant.
John
Weir
"Scruffy" was a Flight Lieutenant in No.1 Fighter Squadron (401
Sqn). He was shot down and interned in a P.O.W. (Prisoner of
War) camp. He was one of the instigators of The Great Escape
and an investment councilor in business life.
In
Memory of John Gordon Weir...
It
is with saddness that we announce the passing of John Gordon
Weir, 90, on Sept. 20,2009 in Toronto, Canada.
There
was an impromptu air show in honour of John on September 24,
timed to coincide with the close of his memorial service at
Upper Canada College's Laidlaw Hall. The small airshow featured
the Second World War Lancaster Bomber in formation with a saucy-looking
little training plane of the same vintage.
Dennis
Bradley says Weir was a prisoner of war for four years. One
day, when the museum founders were looking at airplanes, Weir
spotted a de Havilland Chipmunk training plane.
It was
love at first sight, says Bradley. "He took one look at
that little plane and its registration number, CF-POW, and had
to have it because it reminded him of his years as a prisoner
of war. Weir bought the plane and donated it to the museum in
1973.
The
little plane accompanied the Lanc in the flypast for Weir's
memorial.
A
fitting memorial for one of our valued founding fathers and
a true hero!
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