The Avro Anson is a British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and numerous other air forces prior to, during, and after the Second World War. Suitable as a multi-engine air crew trainer, the plane became a mainstay of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
DEW refers to the distant early warning line in the Arctic.
Custodial History
See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Image of some kind of wreckage.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Avro Anson entry on Wikipedia (November 2010) available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Anson.
The Avro Anson is a British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and numerous other air forces prior to, during, and after the Second World War. Suitable as a multi-engine air crew trainer, the plane became a mainstay of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
DEW refers to the distant early warning line in the Arctic.
Custodial History
See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Image of a man and plane in an airplane hanger.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Avro Anson entry on Wikipedia (November 2010) available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Anson.
The Avro Anson is a British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and numerous other air forces prior to, during, and after the Second World War. Suitable as a multi-engine air crew trainer, the plane became a mainstay of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
DEW refers to the distant early warning line in the Arctic.
Custodial History
See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Image of a man at the door of the plane.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Avro Anson entry on Wikipedia (November 2010) available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Anson.
The Avro Anson is a British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and numerous other air forces prior to, during, and after the Second World War. Suitable as a multi-engine air crew trainer, the plane became a mainstay of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
DEW refers to the distant early warning line in the Arctic.
Custodial History
See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Image of two men working on the plane's propeller.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Avro Anson entry on Wikipedia (November 2010) available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Anson.
The Avro Anson is a British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and numerous other air forces prior to, during, and after the Second World War. Suitable as a multi-engine air crew trainer, the plane became a mainstay of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
DEW refers to the distant early warning line in the Arctic.
Custodial History
See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Image of two men loading the wings of a plane into the flatbed of a truck.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Avro Anson entry on Wikipedia (November 2010) available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Anson.
Photograph shows the hanger of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum where aircraft are on display. Bolingbroke and Stinson aircrafts are on display.
Photograph shows the hanger at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum containing the displays of WWII-era planes. A Lysander aircraft is on display.
Photograph shows the hanger at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum containing the displays of WWII-era planes. A Tiger Moth aircraft is on display.
Manitoba Pool Elevators was quick to realize the usefulness of the radio medium as a educational and promotional tool. It was also often used to defend the Pool and the co-operative movement in general on programs such as Farm Radio Forum. See fonds level description of RG 4 for complete history/bio of MPE.
Scope and Content
Sub-series MPE B.10 consists of textual radio broadcast transcriptions. The records include transcriptions from 1930 until 1971. Radio broadcasts are on a wide variety of topics, including argicultural science, the grain market and general economy of Canada and the world, government acts and legislation that affected the producer, co-operatives and the co-operative movement, rural life, young people, WWII, Manitoba, and the Manitoba Pool Elevators.
