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Past Airshows attended by ChallengerWest ChallengerWest was in attendance at the following air shows
(dates in Descending Order) and events with
operational aircraft. After each show, we include pictures for
those who couldn't make it. If you're having a fly-in or air show,
and you would like operational Challengers in attendance, please give us
a call - we'd be happy to come and support your event.
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2009 |
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Lloydminster - Father's Day Fly-in - June 21, 2009 |
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A great and well attended event.
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We were the only plane to fly-in and definitely the furthest
flown.
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Despite a gorgeous flight over Saturday evening,
we got weathered in on Sunday
and left Monday in marginally improved pure SCUD ...
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... and massively shearing winds for the flight home! The
visibility was OK, and the low ceilings lifted a lot about 30
miles to the west. The gusts and windshear, however,
persisted! |
While Mike battled windshear , downdrafts, and SCUD, Tracy saw
cool oilfield equipment. |
We stopped at Viking to refuel. I had had enough of the
bouncies by this point, so we decided to stay over at Viking as it
was a pretty spot.
Alberta is full of awesome little airports like this!
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Things were a lot nicer the next morning when we
departed for home. |
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Westebello 2009 - July 10 - 12, 2009 |
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COPA - National Convention. Calgary Springbank
Airport, July 17-19 2009 |
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We were there! |
Friday morning in Olds prior to departure for Springbank. |
The "hardware line" at COPA 2009. Challenger, Cessna
T182T, Cessna Corvalis, Cessna Katmai, King Air, Beach Baron
... We offered affordable aviation! |
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A Czech L-39 from Josephsburg that was on
the Lovelace flight to Nova Scotia. |
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1,000 Shp. 425 Knots. 11,000
fpm. Homebuilt Legend Turbine. Wow!
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Just, Plain, Pretty!
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Pretty as this was, if I could just win that lottery ... I would
buy that Legend Turbine! |
Harmon Rockets doing Pyros at Dusk |
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C-IROC taxiing to departure runway. |
Up, Up and Away! |
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The soups a boiling! |
It got rougher! Winds were 19 gusting
39 at Wetaskiwin on arrival, but IROC and Mike made it down
safe and sound. |
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2008 |
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Wetaskiwin - July 26 and 27, 2008 |
| This was a major Airshow
on the Prairies this year and we were there!
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Westebello 2008 - July 18, 19 and 20, 2008 |
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Airport and Reynolds Alberta Museum. The weekend before the
big airshow - if you like airplanes, come and stay a while!
We hope to organize owners flights during the weeks before and
after the Westebello event. |
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Lloydminster - June 15, 2008. Father's Day Fly-in. |
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We went, in spite of the weather. We're not sure, but JBN
may have taken the furthest flown honours as most of the other
aircraft appeared to be from the local vicinity. Mike flew
JBN, and Tracy and Kids came in the Bus. Food was great.
Aviation camaraderie was even better.
Thanks to Steve and Claude and all the volunteers for a great
event. Special thanks to Lloydminster airport Manager Wade
and Claude for the hospitality. Mike lifted off in the rain,
but in advance of the thunderstorms, and headed for Wetaskiwin.
2.0 from Wetaskiwin to Lloyd, and 2:3 from Lloyd to Wetaskiwin.
Ride there was better than the ride home, but all in all, a fun
weekend. We'll probably make this an annual event as the
hospitality was so great. Maybe next year, Mike and Tracy
will be able to go over in formation assuming LHC is finished by
then.
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2006 |
| Lacombe Airport
Annual Fly-in Breakfast, June 4, 2006 |
Lacombe Airport
(CEG3): June 4th, 2006, 0700 - 1200 MST
Here is Kris Falk's Challenger at
the ChallengerWest Booth at the Lacombe Fly-in
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Edmonton
Airfest 2006
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| Edmonton Municipal Airport
(CYXD): July
1st and 2nd 2006
Alberta Aviation Museum/Edmonton Aviation Heritage Center
11410-Kingsway Avenue, Edmonton
An annual event focused on the homebuilt
sector.
Our booth prior to the arrival of
the crowds. We spent much of our time out on the flight line
with the Challenger.
Kris Falk flew in in C-IDVU and many folks came
to admire his build quality.
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Wetaskiwin
Centennial Airshow- July 29th - 30th, 2006
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| Wetaskwin Regional
Airport (CEX3). Tracy from ChallengerWest with her Amphibious
Challenger.
One of the few breaks from the rain that
weekend. We almost needed those floats!
 We didn't plan the color
coordination with the car booth - it just happened that way!
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Rocky Mountain
House
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Rocky
Mountain House Airport (CRMN): Wednesday August 16,
2006, 1300 - Late Evening This
was an awesome Airshow. Mike flew over in our amphibious
Challenger!
These
guys were also there - Canada's own SnowBirds!
And
Robb McCahgren of Novus
Photography in Wetaskiwin took this picture of one of
Canada's CF-18 Hornet Fighters simulating a Carrier trap:
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Calgary
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Calgary
International Airport (CYYC): September 9 - 10, 1000 - 1700
MST. We made the trip in 2.8 hours, despite the 40 mph
headwinds!
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2005
Airshows attended by ChallengerWest
ChallengerWest
was pleased to
attend at the COPA
Convention 2005 at Wetaskiwin, Alberta with our own Challenger II on
display.
We
had lots of Challenger owners and friends visit us, and we were
delighted to have four challengers in attendance at the
convention. Was this the "type record at the
convention?"
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To everyone who came to visit
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To the Challenger Pilots who
braved the weather to fly in:
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Rob Saurette - Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Rob flew 18
hours (each way!) in his very beautiful Challenger II on
floats. After everyone started bugging out on Sunday
morning, Rob moved his plane
over under the shelter of a big buddy! Did we mention
the teeming rain! |
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Hans Le Blanc -
Lethbridge, Alberta. |
| Hans, that is one nice paint job. |
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Kris Falk - Lacombe
Alberta |
| Kris Falk flew
in from Lacombe Alberta with a freshly completed
Challenger. Kris is a well known Challenger instructor.
This is a very pretty plane! |
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To the Wetaskiwin Team
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To
the team from the Wetaskiwin COPA Flight and the Westaskiwin
Airport for a FABULOUS event. You folks all worked
really hard on this, and it was greatly appreciated. The service
of your team and volunteers was OUTSTANDING, and we really
appreciated the personal touch of all your team coming around to
see how we were doing and if we needed anything. We had
fun and got to meet lots of folks. We think our booth worked out
very well, and we are hoping to host a Challenger fly-in later
on this year. With any luck, we'll get everyone back to
Wetaskiwin real soon.
- The rain didn't co-operate, but
that wasn't within anyone's control, and it wasn't all that bad
considering the downpour! It
was neat to see you guys out with the portable walkways - it's
little things like this - making the best of a tough situation
that stand out in our minds as what best demonstrates a true
team and an amazing organization.
To the Challenger Team
Bryan and
Alison were here from our Canadian Distributor, National
Ultralight and were a great help to Tracy and I and the
kids in our first trade show with a Challenger. Thanks
also to Kris Falk and others who helped us load and unload the
plane. Below is
our bird (C-ILHC) in it's then current state of completion. Someday it will look as nice as the Challengers shown above!
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