Rainer Picture – The Best of the Snowbirds
The Nanton Lancaster Museum's Tutor (#177) was flying as #9 when what is generally regarded as one on the finest photos ever taken of the team was obtained on July…
As well as aircraft and artifacts, the museum displays an aviation art collection related to Bomber Command and the BCATP. Visitors to the museum enjoy some 250 pieces of aviation art that are integrated into our displays and all of which relates to our collection and the history that is our mandate.
The collection includes 52 original paintings (15 of which were commissioned by the museum), over 55 limited edition prints, over 85 non-limited edition prints, and 57 replica nose art paintings on pieces of Lancaster and Halifax aircraft skin.
The Nanton Lancaster Museum's Tutor (#177) was flying as #9 when what is generally regarded as one on the finest photos ever taken of the team was obtained on July…
by Keith Harder, Chair, Dept. of Fine Arts, Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta in Camrose, Alberta "Gravitas" is about the weight of time. It is also about the entropy of…
Born in Regina in 1924, David Kenneth Mould joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in April, 1943 at the age of seventeen. Initially he trained as a pilot at No.…
Clarence Simonsen Biography Mr. Nose Art Introduction The American Airpower Heritage Museum's Collection The Canadian War Museum's Collection Museum's Nose Art Archive The Bomber Command Museum's Collection Nose Art Replica…
With the cooperation of Clarence and others and a huge amount of work by Katelyn, the museum has created a database of information and photographs of all the RCAF, RAF,…
"You'll have to put her down Baz, we're badly on fire." Flight Engineer George Turner told his pilot what he must have already known. The bomber was 1000' above the…
Harold Emery Veresh was born July 1, 1945 in Stoughton, Saskatchewan, the eldest of eight children born to James Steven Veresh and Irene Agnes Vallee. Harold received his education in…
Generally there is a clear relationship between a nose art image, the name that was often directly connected to the image, the letter designation of the aircraft, and the specific…
Since the early 1990's the Bomber Command Museum (formerly the Nanton Lancaster Air Museum) has enjoyed a special relationship with prominent aviation artist John Rutherford of Kamloops, British Columbia. During…
None of these pieces is actual wartime work on original aircraft skin. Rather it is "replica" nose art, painted fairly recently but on actual skin from a wartime aircraft.
Snowbird Presentation Panel Clarence titled this panel, "The Three Faces of No. 431 Squadron". It was presented to No. 431 Air Demonstration Squadron (The Snowbirds) by the Nanton Lancaster Society…
S/L Donald Patterson, "B" Flight Commander with No. 426 Squadron, selected Halifax LW-207 as his aircraft and flew the aircraft on sixteen operations. It was assigned the markings "OW-W" and…