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The CF Snowbirds returned to the Comox Valley for its first airshow of the 2024 season on May 18. Photo courtesy of Kirk Friedlich

PHOTOS & VIDEO: 2024 Comox Airshow celebrates 100th anniversary of the RCAF

Thousands of spectators attended the admission-free event

 

Letter to the editor.

LETTER – Military BRAT reunion planned for September in Comox

Dear editor, Were you a BRAT? There’s a reunion planned for Comox…

  • Jul 27, 2023

 

Treverton (middle) flying helicopters with the Royal Navy display team in 1988. Photo: Vince Treverton

Fruitvale has its very own Top Gun pilot: A Royal Air Force veteran

Vince Treverton flew with the Royal Air Force for 19 years

 

A CC-115 Buffalo from 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron out of CFB Comox on a training exercise in Chilliwack on June 16, 2021. The Buffalo flew its final search and rescue mission on Jan. 15 2022. (William Snow photo)

Iconic CC-115 Buffalo flies final mission off B.C. coast

442 Squadron CFB Comox search and rescue plane phased out of service after more than 50 years

  • Jan 17, 2022
A CC-115 Buffalo from 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron out of CFB Comox on a training exercise in Chilliwack on June 16, 2021. The Buffalo flew its final search and rescue mission on Jan. 15 2022. (William Snow photo)