Historical airshow takes flight next summer
Prince Albert is set to host an airshow of historic proportions next summer.
The city will celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the first airplane that took off and landed safely at the city's Summer Exhibition of 1912. The event is called “Centennial of Flight” and will coincide with other centennial events planned for the summer.
“It was 100 years ago that the first aircraft was flown out of the exhibition grounds,” said Harris May, chairman of the Historical Society. “It was a Curtis Golden Flyer. They assembled it on the exhibition grounds and flew it off and made a circuit of the city and landed back in the exhibition grounds.”
In keeping with the tradition of that first flight, the airshow will only have historical planes from the 1930’s through 1960.