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• Hours of Operation
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• School and Group Visits
• Guidelines for Commercial Bus Tour Operators
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• Guidelines for Seniors Groups
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• Guidelines for School Groups
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• Guidelines for Air Cadet Groups
  • Cadet Visit Registration Form
• Guidelines for Youth Groups
  • Youth Visit Registration Form
• Guidelines for Handicapped Groups
  • Handicap Visit Registration Form
• Museum News
• Museum Videos
• Contact Us


Special Events
• Lancaster Merlin Engine Run-ups (2010)
• Planes, Trains and Elevators (May 29, 2010)
• Eleventh Anual Fly-In (July 17, 2010)
• Salute to the Flight Intructors (August 21, 2010)
• Past Special Events
• 2009 Event - Remembering Baz
• 2009 Event - Salute to Jack Allan
• 2008 Event - Lancs In The Fifties
• 2007 Event - American's In The RCAF
• 2006 Event - Nanton Lancaster Air Museum's Twentieth Anniversary Celebration
• 2005 Event - Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Dedication
• Lancaster FM159's starboard-inner Merlin Runs
• 2004 Event - Salute to the Airgunners
• 2004 Event - Sinking of the Battleship Tirpitz (Sixtieth Anniversary)
• 2003 Event - Dambusters Sixtieth Anniversary (Salute to Terry Taerum)
• 2003 Exhibit - Matthew Ferguson (Nose Artist Display Opening)
• 2002 Event - Salute to the BCATP
• 2002 Exhibit - Aviaton Art Exhibit (A Brush With Aviation)
• 2001 Event - Salute to the Lancaster (VR-X connection)
• 2000 Event - Dedication of Blenheim IV to Barry Davidson
• 1999 Event - First of the Ten Thousand (F.Sgt. Albert Stanley Prince)
• 1998 Event - The Airforce, Past, Present, and Future
• 1997 Event - Roy Chadwick
• 1996 Event - Salute to Those who Served
• 1995 Event - Operation Manna
• 1994 Event - Salute to the Pathfinders
• 1993 Event - Dambusters Fiftieth Anniversary
• 1992 Event - Official Opening of the Museum Building
• 1990 Event - The Dedication of Lancaster FM159 (to S/L Ian Bazalgette VC DFC)
• 1989 Flypast - Mynarski Memorial Lancaster Salutes Nanton


Nanton Lancaster Air Museum
• The Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum
• A Brief History
• Society Goals and Objectives
• The Philosophy - Connecting People to Planes
• Membership
• NLS Membership Application
• Publications   and   Merchandise
• Museum Needs and Surplus Parts
• Parts & Tool Requirements for the Restoration of Avro Lancaster Mk.X FM-159
• Building Expansion Project
• Current Newsletter
• Archived Newsletters
• 2009 Spring & Summer
• 2008 Spring & Summer        2008 Fall & Winter
• 2007 Spring & Summer        2007 Fall & Winter
• 2006 Spring & Summer        2006 Fall & Winter
• 2005 Spring & Summer        2005 Fall & Winter
• 2004 Spring & Summer        2004 Fall & Winter
• 2003 Spring & Summer        2003 Fall & Winter
• 2002 Spring & Summer        2002 Fall & Winter
• 2001 Spring & Summer        2001 Fall & Winter
• 2000 Spring & Summer        2000 Fall & Winter
• 1999 Spring & Summer        1999 Fall & Winter
• 1998 Spring & Summer        1998 Fall & Winter
• 1997 Spring & Summer        1997 Fall & Winter
• 1996 Spring & Summer        1996 Fall & Winter
• 1995 Spring & Summer        1995 Fall & Winter
• 1994 Spring & Summer        1994 Fall & Winter
• 1993 Spring & Summer        1993 Fall & Winter
• 1992 Spring & Summer        1992 Fall & Winter
• 1991 Spring & Summer        1991 Fall & Winter
• 1990 Spring & Summer        1990 Fall & Winter
• 1989 Spring & Summer        1989 Fall & Winter
• 1988 Spring & Summer        1988 Fall & Winter
• 1987 Spring & Summer        1987 Fall & Winter
• Nanton Cenotaph


Bomber Command
• Introduction
• A Typical Raid
• Strain Of Flying with Bomber Command
• The Pathfinders
• The Air Gunners and Their Turrets
• The Air Gunners
• Air Gunner Tactics
• Gun Turrets
• Engbrecht & Gillanders - RCAF Airgunners
• P/O Andrew Mynarski VC
• Douglas Cameron DFM
• Air Gunner Stories
• Dams Raid
• The Story of the Dams Raid
• Page 1 - Barnes Wallis (The Dams, the Theory, the Weapon)
• Page 2 - Barnes Wallis (The Dams, the Theory, the Weapon)
• Page 3 - Guy Gibson (The Leader, the Squadron, the Training)
• Page 4 - Guy Gibson (The Leader, the Squadron, the Training)
• Page 5 - Flying to the Dams (Low Level)
• Page 6 - Flying to the Dams (Low Level)
• Page 7 - The Mohne Dam (Success but "Hoppy" is Lost)
• Page 8 - The Mohne Dam (Success but "Hoppy" is Lost)
• Page 9 - The Eder Dam (No Defences but Difficult Flying)
• Page 10 - The Sorpe Dam (A Supreme Effort)
• Page 11 - The Fight Back to Scampton (Two More Lancasters are lost)
• Page 12 - The Damage
• Page 13 - The Aftermath (The Cheering and the Sacrifice)
• Page 14 - The Glory, The Celebration, and the Losses
• Page 15 - The Canadian Contribution (Significant)
• The Canadian Contribution
• Terry Taerum - Dambusters' Navigator
• Terry Taerum additional reading
• John Fraser and "Hoppy"
• Ken Brown CGM - Dambuster
• Salute to Terry Taerum - August 16, 2003
• A Dambuster's Daughter
• The Promise - A Hamilton Connection to the Dambusters
• Were The Dambusters Successful ? - A Dambuster's Grand-daughter's Study
• Peenemunde Raid
• Sinking Of The Tirpitz
• Operation Manna
• Bomber Command Losses
• The Canadian Contribution
• Americans In The RCAF
• The 379 Americans
• Nose Art
• "None But The Brave" - Downloadable Book
• Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Wall
• Dedication Event
• The Wall at Nanton
• Father John Philip Lardie
• Canada's Bomber Command Virtual Memorial


The Lancaster Bomber
• Introduction
• Lancaster Aircrew
• The Canadian Lancasters (overview)
• Canadian Built Avro Lancasters (complete list)
• Avro Lancaster Specifications
• Lancaster KB700 - The Ruhr Express
• Lancaster KB732 - VR X-terminator
• Lancasters After The War
• Post-War RCAF Lancasters
• Lancaster FM159 - The Nanton Lancaster
• Lancaster FM159 Flight Log
• From the Log of Lancaster FM159
• How We Almost Lost Lanc FM159
• Looking for a Lost York from FM159
• FM159 Visits Bermuda
• World's Surviving Lancasters
• Parts & Tool Requirements for the Restoration of Avro Lancaster Mk.X FM-159


Other Aircraft of Bomber Command
• Introduction
• Bristol Blenheim
• Halifax
• Hampden
• Mosquito
• Stirling
• Wellington
• Whitley


British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
• Introduction
• BCATP Schools In Alberta
  • Bowden
  • Calgary
  • Claresholm
  • Dewinton
  • Edmonton
  • Fort Macleod
  • High River
  • Lethbridge
  • Medicine Hat
  • Pearce
  • Penhold
  • Vulcan
• Aircraft Of The BCATP
  In The Collection
• Airspeed Oxford
• Avro Anson
• Beechcraft 18 "Expeditor"
• Cessna Crane
• De Haviland Tiger Moth
• Fairchild Cornell
• Fleet Fawn
• North American Harvard
• North American Yale
    Other BCATP Aircraft
• Boeing Stearman
• Bristol Bolingbroke
• Fairey Battle
• Fleet Finch
• Fleet Fort
• Noorduyn Norseman
• Westland Lysander


Aircraft And Vehicles In The Collection
• Our Museum's Collection (a summary)
• Aircraft in the Collection
• Avro Lancaster Mk X
• Lancaster FM159 Flight Log
• From the Log of Lancaster FM159
• How We Almost Lost Lanc FM159
• Looking for a Lost York from FM159
• FM159 Visits Bermuda
• Airspeed Oxford
• Avro Anson
• Beechcraft-18 "Expeditor"
• Bristol Blenheim IV
• Canadair CT-114 Tutor
• The Rainier Picture
• Cessna Crane
• CF 100
• De Haviland Tiger Moth
• Fairchild Cornell
• Fleet Fawn MK II (7c)
• Harvard
• T-33
• Vickers Viking
• Yale
• Aircraft Engines
• Allison V-1710
• Bristol Mercury XV
• Cheetah IX
• Curtis-Wright R-2600
• Gypsy I
• Gypsy Major-1C
• Gypsy Queen
• Jacobs L-6 MB
• Kinner B-5
• Menasco Super Pirate D-4
• Orenda-8
• Pratt & Whitney "Wasp Jr." R985
• Pratt & Whitney Wasp 1340
• Ranger 6 L-440
• Rolls-Royce Merlin -224
• Rolls-Royce Nene
• BCATP Vehicles


Aviation Art Collections
• The Andy Kindret Collection
• The Harold Veresh Collection
• The John Rutherford Collection
• The David Mould Collection
• Abracadabra
• Aircrew at Dispersal
• Home Free
• Lancaster at Dispersal
• Montage
• Port Engines on Fire
• Preparing nto Ditch
• The Ju-88 Incident
• Whathellwuzat
• The Clarence Simonsen Nose Art Collection
• Clarence Simonsen Biography
• Mr. Nose Art
• Introduction
• The American Airpower Heritage Museum's Collection
• The Canadian War Museum's Collection
• Archie The Archer
• Avenging Angel
• Dragon
• Fangs of Fire
• Indian Head
• Jake Sent Me
• Jumpin Jiminy
• Notorious Nan
• Ol' Daid Eye
• Veni, Vedi, Vici
• Ville De Quebec
• Willie The Wolf From The West
• Willie The Wolf
• Willie Wolf
The Nanton Lancaster Air Museum's Collection
• Nose Art Replica Paintings
• "A" Train
• Admiral Prune
• Bambi
• Booting Hitler
• "C" for Cecil
• Canada Kid
• Champ
• Corkscrew Charlie
• Devastating Dog
• Dipsy Doodle
• Dragon
• Easter Egg for Hitler
• Gallopin Gerty
• Hell Razor
• Irremoveable Finger
• Joan Crawford
• Just Testing
• Lady Owl
• Little Bear
• London's Revenge
• Medicine Hat
• No. 71 Squadron
• No. 107 Squadron
• Nuts for Nazis
• Ol Daid Eye
• Press On Regardless
• Seven Dwarfs
• Stork with Baby I
• Stork with Baby II
• Stork Wellington
• Veni Vedi Vici
• Zombie I
• Zombie II
• Zombie III
• Nose Art Replica Paintings (near full size)
• Commemorative Paintings
The Canadian Nose Artists
• Matthew Ferguson
• George Oliver
• Floyd "Skip" Rutledge
• Albert Edward "Muff" Mills
• Gravitas - An Art Installation in Landscape


Chronicles
• Ian W. Bazalgette VC DFC - Victoria Cross recipient from Alberta
"Baz," S/L Bazalgette's Biography - Downloadable Book
• Engbrecht & Gillanders - RCAF's Top Air Gunner Team
• Barry Davidson - Prisoner of War and "Scrounger"
• Barry Davidson Logbook
• Logbook page 0
• Logbook page 1
• Logbook page 2
• Logbook page 4
• Logbook page 6
• Logbook page 9
• Logbook page 11
• Logbook page 23
• Logbook page 25
• Logbook page 27
• Logbook page 39
• Logbook page 41
• Logbook page 58
• Logbook page 59
• Logbook page 75
• Logbook page 81
• Logbook page 86
• Logbook page 107
• Logbook page 108
• Logbook page 109
• Logbook page 111
• Logbook page 122
• Logbook page 126
• Logbook page 127
• Logbook page 128
• Logbook page 139
• Logbook page 144
• Logbook page 145
• Terry Taerum DFC - Dambuster Navigator from Milo, Alberta
• Terry Taerum additional reading
• Albert Stanley Prince - The "First of the Ten Thousand"
• John Fraser & "Hoppy" - A Dams Raid Story
• Bruce and Douglas Warren - Nanton's Spitfire Twins
• The Warren Twins -The Complete Story
• Ken Brown CGM - Dambuster Pilot
• Matthew Ferguson - Canada's Greatest Nose Artist
• More Chronicles
• A Bomb for the Museum
• A Childhood Journey to a War Cemetery
• A Dambuster's Daughter
• A Lancaster For Nanton
• A Thank You to the Bomber Boys
• A Tiger Moth
• Air Gunner Stories
• Al Hymers
• An American in the RCAF
• Andrew Mynarski
• Back From Munich
• Bomber Command
• Charles P. "Chuck" Lesesne
• D. Stewart Robertson
• Dieppe
• Douglas Cameron
• Douglas Tweddle
• F For Freddie
• Father Lardie
• Flak Over the River Canard
• Following Baz
• Frances Walsh
• Groundcrew
• H2S
• Halifax MZ 516
• Hamish Mahaddie
• Happy Landings
• Howard Witwer's Story
• Joseph Charles McCarthy
• John Enderby "Jock" Palmer
• John Gillespie Magee
• Johnny Fauquier
• Jonathan Spinks
• Joseph Barber
• Karl Aalborg
• Ken Earnshaw
• Kingston Lake
• Lancaster Cold War Memories
• Lancaster KB-885
• Making The Merlins Run
• "Manna"
• Minnie Simcoe DFC
• Murray Peden
• Norm Etheridge
• Peenemunde Raid
• RAF Station Sleap
• Reg Lane
• Robert Clothier
• Ron Jenkins, Lady Orchid, and Lancaster FM-213
• Senantes and Nanton
• Some Personal Memories of an RCAF Observer/Navigator
• Stay Out Of Those Hangars
• Tallboy
• "Teddy" Blenkinsop DFC
• The 635 Squadron
• The Clayton Knight Committee
• The Diary of F/L Richard P. Perry
• The Dutch Resistance
• The Few
• The Jacobs Engine
• The Last Mission of Lancaster KB-834
• The Last Rover
• The Legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin
• The Merlin Story
• The Nose Art on Joe McCarthy's Lancasters
• The Promise
• The "Pucker Factor"
• The Rainier Picture
• The Real Story about the Bouncing Bomb
• The Shooting of Rudy Roman
• The Story of a Tire
• The Strain of Operational Flying with Bomber Command
• The Vulcan Mind Meld
• Tire Evokes Memories of War
• War II Memories of Ronnie Groeneveld
• Watching the Russkies
• Were The Dambusters Successful ?
• William Reid VC
• Wing Commander Jack Allan
• Wing Commander John "Moose" Fulton
• Without The Bombers, What?
• Women In the Air Force

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