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One-Plane Gararge: Most people have cars in their driveways, but Neil Kruiswyk of Brampton keeps his single engine light plane in his father's garage, where he built the plane
One-Plane Gararge: Most people have cars in their driveways, but Neil Kruiswyk of Brampton keeps his single engine light plane in his father's garage, where he built the plane

One-Plane Gararge: Most people have cars in their driveways, but Neil Kruiswyk of Brampton keeps his single engine light plane in his father's garage, where he built the plane

Date7/16/1988
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0129101F
Final check: John Crook of Oshawa inspects one of the steam engines he has built. Some of his collection will be on display at the Steam Threshing Days in Uxbridge this weekend. He grew to love steam engines while helping on his father's farm in the 1930s.
Final check: John Crook of Oshawa inspects one of the steam engines he has built. Some of his collection will be on display at the Steam Threshing Days in Uxbridge this weekend. He grew to love steam engines while helping on his father's farm in the 1930s.
8/4/1989
Fire trucks, ambulances, police cars and other emergency vehicles litter the Etobicoke Creek valley where the stricken plane came to rest. Cause of th(...)
Fire trucks, ambulances, police cars and other emergency vehicles litter the Etobicoke Creek valley where the stricken plane came to rest. Cause of th(...)
6/26/1978
Bolting on the manifold of the plane he's building in the garage, Bill Brubacher gets a helping hand from his wife, Gail. Two-year-old Mary Ann just watches.
Bolting on the manifold of the plane he's building in the garage, Bill Brubacher gets a helping hand from his wife, Gail. Two-year-old Mary Ann just watches.
4/12/1972
Keeps' Em flying: Maurice Nesbitt works on vintage planes at Oshawa airport.
Keeps' Em flying: Maurice Nesbitt works on vintage planes at Oshawa airport.
4/22/1993
Controller Fred Rodgers was back in front of his radar screen at Pearson airport yesterday, days after he helped persuade a suicidal pilot, not to crash his light plane into the CN Tower or a downtown hospital
Controller Fred Rodgers was back in front of his radar screen at Pearson airport yesterday, days after he helped persuade a suicidal pilot, not to crash his light plane into the CN Tower or a downtown hospital
4/18/1989
Bullder John Boddy likes to keep tabs on his developments from his own float plane, at left. Model home, below, is in his Forest Brook Estates, an enclave of 48 large lots backing on to a wooded ravine in Pickering.
Bullder John Boddy likes to keep tabs on his developments from his own float plane, at left. Model home, below, is in his Forest Brook Estates, an enclave of 48 large lots backing on to a wooded ravine in Pickering.
5/26/1992
Builder John Boddy likes to keep tabs on his developments from his own float plane, at left
Builder John Boddy likes to keep tabs on his developments from his own float plane, at left
5/26/1992
Like many Canadian boys, Nassir Basith, 13, likes building model planes and he shows his latest creation to his father, Syed. But being Canadian-born (...)
Like many Canadian boys, Nassir Basith, 13, likes building model planes and he shows his latest creation to his father, Syed. But being Canadian-born (...)
8/14/1976
I will see you again in Spence Bay or in Heaven, 14-year-old David Kootook wrote to his parents in Eskimo a few days after the light plane taking him (...)
I will see you again in Spence Bay or in Heaven, 14-year-old David Kootook wrote to his parents in Eskimo a few days after the light plane taking him (...)
3/1/1973
Doctor's dilemma, Dr. Andreas Haralampides, 40, of Uxbridge throws up his hands at his crashed plane after making a forced landing in a cornfield near Markham. His Passenger, Gordon Land, 37, of Oshawa had only six months ago made ago made a similar forced landing in a Mississauga field with Haralampides piloting the same plane.
Doctor's dilemma, Dr. Andreas Haralampides, 40, of Uxbridge throws up his hands at his crashed plane after making a forced landing in a cornfield near Markham. His Passenger, Gordon Land, 37, of Oshawa had only six months ago made ago made a similar forced landing in a Mississauga field with Haralampides piloting the same plane.
9/17/1980
Trick toy: Evan Kaminsky, 3, has mastered GoBots, toy robots that change into cars, trucks motorcycles, planes and spaceships when unfolded
Trick toy: Evan Kaminsky, 3, has mastered GoBots, toy robots that change into cars, trucks motorcycles, planes and spaceships when unfolded
10/1/1984
Up, up and away: The day is near for veteran pilot Brian Summerfeldt's flight of a lifetime - aloft in the single engine Thorp T-18 airplane that he's jigsawed together for about $15,000 in his Oshawa garage
Up, up and away: The day is near for veteran pilot Brian Summerfeldt's flight of a lifetime - aloft in the single engine Thorp T-18 airplane that he's jigsawed together for about $15,000 in his Oshawa garage
1/27/1993