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
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 […]
The City of New York at the Harbour Grace airstrip, 1930, surrounded by locals.
William “Bill” Parsons, son of photographer Reuben T. Parsons, worked as a journalistic stringer for the Associated Press. He took photos and recorded flight information at the Harbour […]
The wreckage of the City of New York at the Harbour Grace airstrip. Ed Oke (left) and Ernest Simmonds (right), of the Harbour Grace Airport Trust Company, examine […]
Black and white photograph of the Lady Peace, piloted by Dick Merrill, that had crash landed in a bog in Musgrave Harbour and was flown to Harbour Grace […]
Black and white photograph of a Douglas DC-2 plane, The Great Silver Fleet, piloted by Eddie Rickenbacker, American flying ace. This plane had arrived for a rescue mission […]
