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(Subject: Aviation - General) Opened in 1931, Trenton Ontario has been the most important Military airfield in Canada. It began as a training base and in the early war years trained flight instructors who in turn helped train the thousands of pilots in the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. After the war it was home to the Central Flying School until 1961 when CFS was moved to the prairies and Trenton became the base of RCAF Air Transport Command. This book was published by the base command to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 1981 and is packed with colour and black and white photos. (Published: 1981) (Pagination: Landscape format. 160pp, 20 colour & c150 b/w photos) (Condition: Good. Torn d/w) UL-XXXXXX.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Oblong, 160pp. with b/w and a few colour illustrations. Light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear, tears and light soiling. Actual book for sale pictured. Duplicates available. 27 x 22 x 1.9cm, wt1Kg Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. SUBTITLED ; ` 50 Years of Air Force '. RCAF Station Trenton was established in 1929, largely to replace an aging Camp Borden. Read more about : BCATP, Captain Spence Gludish, Project 40, De Havilland Canada DH-82C Tiger Moth, Omnia Passim, Jean Dickenson, Bagotville, City of Edmonton Squadron, NAMS Electronic Display, and British Air Ministry. These 160 pages, with chronology and index at back, tell the story of Canada's (military) aircraht industry. B/W photographs (and a few in colour) assist text. Cond : Boards are blue with gilt lettering. End-papers are pictorial and blue. (Think: newspaper clippings). D.j. is white with yellow lettering. Front cover photo shows a mod-air refueling of two `CF-5 Freedom Fighters '. D.J. has some edge wear - now protected in mylar. Volume is tight, bright, square, clean, and collectible ! No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Quote. ( p. 49) : " At all flying units in the Command, a `Low Flying Book' is to be brought into use forthwith. This book is to be kept in the Duty Pilots' Office and entries are to be made immediately on completion of any flight in which it has been necessary for the pilot to ._._._. .' Size: Octavo. B/W Photographs (illustrator).…