Alone Among the Stars: Aviation in Harbour Grace, NL (1919-Present) Alone Among the Stars: Aviation in Harbour Grace, NL (1919-Present) Conception Bay Museum
An excerpt from page 23 of the Harbour Grace Airport Trust Company’s logbook detailing the arrival and flight of the Sir John Carling, 1927. Document reads: Name of […]
The Sir John Carling at the Harbour Grace airstrip, 1927. Arthur Carty, part-owner of the London Free Press, and Charles Burns, president of Carling Breweries, offered $25,000 to […]
Navigator James Medcalf (left) and pilot Terence Tully (right) at the Harbour Grace airstrip, 1927. Both were former members of the Royal Air Force. From many applicants, they […]
This remittance acknowledges the Royal Canadian Navy’s rental of the airstrip from the Harbour Grace Airport Trust Company. The Royal Canadian Navy leased this site from 1941-46, paying […]
Moving the Innotts’ family home to facilitate the construction of ‘Handley Page by the Sea,’ 1919. Future Premier, Joseph Smallwood, then working as a journalist, related details of […]
The Handley Page Atlantic during a test flight, spires of the Catholic Church in background and southside Harbour Grace.
Pilot Oliver LeBoutillier (center) and Mabel Boll (right) at the Harbour Grace airstrip. Boll was in a race with others, including Amelia Earhart, to become the first woman […]
Claude Stevenson in the cockpit of his Aircoupe, 2000.
Airstrip Logbook entry, page 72, detailing Dorothy flight specifics. Document reads: 1936 Name of Plane. “Dorothy” Pilot. JA Mollison From what place. New York Time […]
Bernt Balchen (left), Amelia Earhart (centre), and Lewis L’Esperance (right), a Shell Oil representative, on the steps of the old Harbour Grace Post Office, 1932. Balchen, a famed […]
Excerpt from the Harbour Grace Airport Trust Company’s official logbook which lists the number of miles travelled between each location during the around-the-world flight attempt of the Pride […]
These RCN Service men, while dedicated to their war effort work at the airstrip, also witnessed the devastating town fire of 1944 and aided recovery efforts in Harbour […]
