19-06-2017 14:30 via edmontonjournal.com

Alberta farmers complete epic mission to get wartime plane back in the sky

FAIRVIEW  At age 95, former Second World War pilot Hal Burns could be called a living embodiment of Canadian history.
On Sunday, at the tiny Fairview Municipal Airport in northwestern Alberta, he met another one.
Not another veteran, mind you. Rather, Burns reconnected with a newly refurbished Canso aircraft, the very same patrol bomber he had piloted three times on submarine hunting missions during the war.
It was the first time he had seen it fly again in 72 years, and the first time anyo
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