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Flying high

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Flying high

Date5/31/1986

Names

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Wilkes, Jim (photographer)

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Picture

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Original Toronto Star caption: Flying high: Richard - Everybody calls me Dick - Pearson, who may be North America's oldest active pilot, stands beside the single-engine Cessna 210 in which he will make the two-day trip to Vancouver to be the star of an Expo salute to the old DC-3. A friend will accompany him.

Subject

Cessna aircraft

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0024670F

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