REBIRTH, AVIATION POEMS BY PATRICK J. PHILLIPS

 This poem is written about this “Norseman” that started life as a USAAF UC-64A in 1944.  It returned to Canada in 1956.  It saw a variety of owners, and eventually crashed at a mining site at Bronson Creek, B.C.  It was badly damaged by the crash and a curious bear.  BC Air Museum bought the aircraft for scrap value and acquired another fuselage from Gimli, Manitoba.  With assistance from the Millennium Fund, a lengthy restoration returned the aircraft to airworthy condition.   

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