By Alan Farrell, Truro, Nova Scotia
A 73-year-old vintage Cessna and 1,500 feet of green grass. You turn on your lights and make all the calls, and, so far, no one answers. Is this perhaps freedom of flight?
Thought I would show readers this as it is, 50 years ago this February, that I brought this aircraft home from CYPQ, Peterborough, Ontario. (He was two years old when it was built! – Ed.)
The author landing at C-GOCY
It has been a journey; won the international long-distance award at the Cessna 170 Convention in 1976, landed at more than 60 different fields in Nova Scotia, found a lost hunter at 3:00 in the morning June 1983, taken countless people on free flights (many being first flights), free tailwheel checkouts (four of which moved on to the cockpits of airliners), and displayed it at three International Atlantic Airshows with enthusiastic viewers from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities that were thrilled just to sit in an old Black Bunny!!
Travelled as far west as Toronto and east to France (St. Pierre and Miquelon). HA HA!!
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