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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

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

Date1/27/1993
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134552F
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