Personnel of the 17th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery (R.C.A.), receiving signals from a Taylorcraft Auster A.O.P. III aircraft of the Royal Air Force, Castel Frentano, Italy, 10 February 1944.
1950 A North Star aircraft from the Experimental and Proving Establishment (No 412 Squadron), based in Rockcliffe, Ontario, completes the first non-stop trans-Canada flight in a flying time of 125.2 hours