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BIDDING CLOSES DEC 30.08
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Flight Simulator PLACE BID

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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.