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 Ben McCarty was born in 1935 in Sussex, NB where he grew up and received his education. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy in June of 1954 and served in the fleet air arm as an aircraft technician, attending Naval Aircraft Maintenance School in Dartmouth, NS. He trained on and maintained the Grumman TBM, Harvard, CS2F Tracker, T-33, Beech 18, and the F2H3 Banshee aircraft while in the navy. After 15 years service he resigned and was employed by Survair Ltd. in Ottawa, Ontario maintaining DC-3, DHC-6, Douglas A-26, and Aero Commander aircraft. During this period he successfully completed the De Havilland Twin Otter, and Pratt and Whitney PT-6 courses.
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 Barry Lapointe was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1966 he graduated with honours from the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s Aircraft Maintenance Engineers course. Barry obtained a commercial pilot’s license in 1967 and in 1968 became Chief Engineer at Air West Airlines, which later became Air BC.
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 Art Parry was a well-known personality in the Ontario aviation community. His career spanned sixty years during which time he made an invaluable contribution to aviation in Canada.
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 Robert W. Briggs was born in Moncton, New Brunswick on March 4, 1930 and was raised and educated in rural New Brunswick. He spent his young adult life working in logging and farming before attending George Brown Technical College in Toronto in 1950.
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 Gerry Wolfe started his aviation career with the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940. He was posted to the RCAF Technical Training School in St.Thomas, Ontario for Aircraft Maintenance Training were he graduated as the Gold Medal Student. In late 1941, after various Canadian postings, he volunteered for overseas service and was posted to the RCAF 405 Bomber Squadron in England which operated Wellington, then Halifax, and Lancaster Aircraft.
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