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Navigating A New Future For The Past


By Alan Small, Winnipeg Free Press

The Royal Aviation Museum of Wester Canada will take “straighten up and fly right,” to a whole new level when it reopens early in 2022.

The museum, which was founded in 1974, unveiled a new logo Monday and a new philosophy that will become part of the exhibits at its home around the corner from the James Armstrong Richardson International Airport.

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