If
this flight simulator could talk, it would have many great stories to
tell. Manufactured in WWII, it was used by the British Commonwealth
Air Training Plan in Alberta. This Training Plan made Canada the centre
of a large scale military training scheme. Almost half of the aircrew
used on British Commonwealth operations were graduates of this training
plan. Lethbridge, alone, hosted 2 BCATP schools. The contracts for buildings,
roads, runways, water, and sewer, put every unemployed person in the
city to work. After the war, training went to the Calgary Air Cadet
Squadron. Shortly after, this simulator was donated to the Lethbridge
Air Cadet Squadron and in 1986 it was donated to the Galt Museum.