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AIN Blog: A Gem of an Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Canada
What I really liked about the Western Canada Aviation Museum was that not only were there plenty of aircraft types that I had not only never seen before...
Bristol Freighter at the Western Canada Aviation Museum. (Photo: Matt Thurber)
Bristol Freighter at the Western Canada Aviation Museum. (Photo: Matt Thurber)

It seems as though every big city has an aviation museum, and I have visited many of them during my travels. As wonderful as these museums are, seeing perfectly restored aircraft in far better condition than anything that ever rolled off an assembly line makes me long for something unique.

Happily, I came across just such a museum during a recent visit with StandardAero and GE Aviation, the inauguration of GE’s fantastic new engine icing test facility at Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson International Airport. The GE/StandardAero team held a briefing for the assembled press the evening before at the Western Canada Aviation Museum. After a tasty dinner, we were treated to a personal tour of the museum's wonderfully well-worn and oddball collection.

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