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18 May 2000
The National Aviation Museum Embarks on Another Aviation Adventure!
Ottawa—The National Aviation Museum is excited to announce the start of another amazing season for our vintage flight experience program. Visitors to the Museum will be able to fly aboard three different and significant aircraft, a vintage Stearman open cockpit bi-plane, a de Havilland Canada Chipmunk , a historic long serving RCAF two-seater aircraft, and a de Havilland Canada Beaver, a famous Canadian bush plane.
The National Aviation Museum is pleased to deliver another aspect of Canada’s adventurous aviation heritage in partnership with three local operators that continue to fuel their passion for aviation by maintaining and flying these historic aircraft.
Air Legacy, operating the Stearman open cockpit bi-plane, will be onsite daily offering 15 minute rides for $75 for an adult, $110.00 for one adult plus one child and $115.00 for two adults. An extended 30 minute ride for one adult is $135.00.
The Classic Aircraft company operating the de Havilland Canada Chipmunk with a canopy which is ideal for photographs of the region will be available for rides Saturdays and Sundays for $75.00 for a standard 15 minute ride. When two rides or more are purchased together the cost is $65.00 per ride and an extended ride of 30 minutes is $125.00.
The De Havilland Beaver is operated by Air Outaouais and will take off on floats from the Ottawa River seating up to seven passengers at a time. Advance reservations are a must for these rides that are at $50.00 per adult with a minimum of 2 passengers per trip.
The National Aviation Museum would like to offer each media organization the opportunity send a journalist to experience flight in a vintage aircraft. Please contact the Museums’s media representative (see below) to book a flight on the aircraft(s) of your choice as soon as possible.
The National Aviation Museum, Canada’s internationally renown aeronautical collection is located at the intersection of the Aviation and Rockcliffe Parkways. Daily hours as of May 1, 2000 are 9 am. to 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Admission is $6 adults; $4 for students and seniors; and $2.00 for children 6-15; free for children under 6. A family pass is $12. Free on Thursdays after 5 p.m. Free parking. OC Transpo bus #129 Rockcliffe also goes to the Museum.
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General information: 613 993-2010 or 1 800 463-2038
Christina Lucas
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