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Over 400 vivid color photos show aircraft used around the globe to fight forest and open-range fires. Includes fire-extinguishing planes known as airtankers, firefighting helicopters, transports, and direction and command planes essential to successful fi
Air Ambulance Operations Manual provides a unique insight into the air ambulance service, taking a look at the history of the air ambulance services in the UK, how they are structured, funded, organized and run, and providing details of the helicopters us
Air Tindi Story: Flying the Burgundy Tail for 30 Years
Published 2018, 98 pages. black & white and colour photographs, hardcover, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4"
America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947
Here at long last is the first major history of Canada’s most historic bushplane – the incredible Norseman! If you have an interest in Canada’s aviation heritage, you’ll want this spectacular, authoritative new title. Beginning with design in 1934, first
The Noorduyn Norseman Vol.2 begins with a solid review of the Norseman in Canadian government service from the RCMP to the provincial air services. The commercial scene is covered with such themes as forestry, mining, commercial fishing and Arctic explora
Aviation in Canada: The Pioneer Decades is the first general interest book dedicated solely to Canada's beginnings in flight. From an introductory balloon ascent in New Brunswick in 1840, daring "aeronauts" feel their way along at the edge of the unknown.
Following right behind Volume 1 Aviation in Canada: The Pioneer Decades, CANAV is excited to introduce you to Volume 2 – Aviation in Canada: The Formative Years. Here is another "must have" book for any sincere fan of Canada's great aviation heritage. Mak
Aviation in Canada: Volume 7: The CAE Story by Larry Milberry.
This book is a full-out effort covering one of the world’s great aerospace manufacturers. You won’t find many aviation books as beautifully produced or all-encompassing.
Famously pictured in the opening credits of the popular television series M.A.S.H., Bell's Model 47 helicopter was the first helicopter certified for civilian use in March 1946 and went on to serve a wide variety of military and civilian applications.
This is the story of Charlottetown native, Carl F. Burke, who went from selling radios in a hardware store for $12.00 an hour to founding Maritime Central Airways, acquiring Nordair and becoming one of Canada's most successful aviation entrepreneurs.
A significant Canadian aviation history told in this new book just hitting the bookstores.Softcover, 200 pages with 75 illustrations telling the history of the Found FBA-2C Bush Hawk aircraft revered by bush pilots and about to reappear as the E350 in int
Published November 2015, 176 pages, black & white photographs, 6" x 9" inches
Training ground of heroes and daredevils. Transportation hub to the nation. Learn why Midway Airport may be Chicago's most overlooked treasure and the country's most historic airport with this collection of oral histories, historic narrative, and fascinat
A visual celebration of the wide and colorful variety of the world’s light aircraft, old and new, organized from A to Z by manufacturer, this book illustrates more than 800 light aircraft types that are likely to be seen when visiting smaller airports and
Published 2023, 52 pages, 150+ black & white and colour photographs, 48 colour profiles, 1:72 scale black & white line drawings, variants list, softcover, A4 format, 21 cm x 29.7 cm
Fading History: Volume 1: Stories of Historical Interest YYZ s/c
Published May 2008, September 2012, 224 pages, softcover, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" inches.
Self published
The first flight from the west coast to the prairies across the Rocky Mountains occurred on August 7, 1919 when Royal Flying Corps veteran Captain Ernie Hoy flew A Curtiss JN-4 Canuck from Vancouver to Lethbridge and Calgary...............
The book is a series of short stories, a “memoir in anecdotes” that follows the author through his early years as a youngster in Toronto, on to Military College and Air Force flight training and then through a broad spectrum of professional aviation endi
Published 1997, 358 pages, black & white photographs and illustrations, trade paperback, 6" x 9 1/4" inches
Flying Above the Glass Ceiling chronicles the accomplishments of pioneering women flyers and distaff members of the aviation industry from the 1800s to the present, noting their specific struggles because they entered a man's profession! Their personal st
Published March 2021, 280 pages, all colour photographs, softcover, 5.5" x 8" inches
Exciting rescue stories on the high seas! The Coast Guard’s rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm.