February 19, 2021
In 2003, the 30-year, 40,000 hour restoration of the prototype Fairchild Super 71, CF-AUJ, was completed. AUJ had crashed at Lost Lake, near Sioux Lookout, Ontario in 1940, and was recovered by museum volunteers in 1978.
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