With a de-commissioned Canadian Forces Snowbirds Tutor jet and a de-commissioned CF-18 Hornet as the backdrop, Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall officially announced that the free show will be returning to Barrie’s Kempenfelt Bay on Saturday, June 10 and Sunday June 11.
The flypasts are part of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Operation Inspiration, which started in 2020 but was cut short following a fatal Snowbirds crash in Kamloops. Expect to see and hear the team’s CF-188 Hornet, commonly called the CF-18, as it flies at an altitude no lower than 300 metres above the highest obstacle on its route. At the controls will be Capt. Dan Deluce, an instructor at 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron, stationed at Cold Lake, Alta. After taking off from Boundary Bay Airport in Delta at 1 p.m., he will perform flypasts over Nanaimo, Parksville and Tofino before travelling down along the west coast of Vancouver Island to Victoria. He should be over Greater Victoria at around 2 p.m., landing at Victoria International Airport about 2:30 p.m.
Expect to see and hear the team’s CF-188 Hornet, commonly called the CF-18, as it flies at an altitude no lower than 300 metres above the highest obstacle on its route. At the controls will be Capt. Dan Deluce, an instructor at 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron, stationed at Cold Lake, Alta. After taking off from Boundary Bay Airport in Delta at 1 p.m., he will perform flypasts over Nanaimo, Parksville and Tofino before travelling down along the west coast of Vancouver Island to Victoria. He should be over Greater Victoria at around 2 p.m., landing at Victoria International Airport about 2:30 p.m.
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