There is history behind the hangar building that Leading Edge Aviation and Yorkton Aircraft Service occupy in the Yorkton Regional Airport. The building is the original British Commonwealth Air Training Plan hangar from WWII, Flight School No. 11. By the end of the war in 1945, an estimated 2000 pilots had earned their wings at the Yorkton School.
The painting is a tribute, showing Wynyard area local, Barry Needham, from the very first graduating class in June 1941 receiving his wings.
Remembrance Day remembers those pilots, but COVID-19 made this year’s poppy campaign more difficult. Leading Edge Aviation and Yorkton Aircraft Service paid tribute to veterans as well as the history of their facility by helping this year’s poppy drive happen. As the Yorkton Legion Alexander Ross Branch #77 did contactless poppy delivery to homes in the city, they paid for the gas costs to allow the donations to help veterans across Yorkton.
