What better way to start the 2025 Greenwood Military Aviation Museum’s guided tours than to have welcomed 45 members of Greenwood’s 517 F/Lt Graham Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron January 8? The group was full of very interested Cadets and training personnel. On their tour with museum volunteers, they learned about the history of 14 Wing Greenwood, search and rescue work, aircraft engines, Cold War submarine hunting aircraft and T-Bird ejection seats. They also found out the wing building where they meet every week is called the Birchall Training Centre, in honor of a 413 Squadron Second World War member: Air Commodore Leonard Birchall warned the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) of an impending attack by the Japanese fleet just before he was shot down in his aircraft. Ceylon was saved, but Birchall became a prisoner-of-war until he was liberated in August 1945.
