Alberta Aviation Museum

As far back as I can remember, airplanes have always have fascinated me and when I was a child (and even now as an adult,) I would eagerly watch the planes while I was at airports.  While covering events at the Edmonton Inn and Conference Centre, formerly the Ramada on Kingsway, I had seen three small planes out on display in front of the Alberta Aviation Museum. I was excited to know that close by, I could stop in and check out an airplane museum and explore it with marvel like a kid.

The museum is in an old 1941-1942 air hangar that was used for pilot training during the second world war. The area around it was part of the Edmonton Municipal Airport which closed in November 2013 and the land is now slowly being re-purposed into residential. Since the building is one of the few remaining old hangars, it has been given protected status as a municipal and provincial historic resource.

Looks can be deceiving with the front entrance of the building being on one...