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KDN safe and sound in the beautiful Bombardier Delivery hangar

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 14

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

The sky was falling at the Reno Air Race. One second Karen and I were watching the modified P-51 Mustang roar past at over 300 mph and in the next split second it pitched up, zoomed to 1000’, rolled onto it’s back, stalled and dove straight for us! Time stood still. I grabbed Karen’s arm and ran. Looking over my shoulder the Mustang accelerated. Slowly the nose started to lift and it changed direction. It slammed into the grandstand-seating full of people. We were in shock, but unhurt. That wasn

KDN with James, Saskatchewan MLA Laura Ross, Dave, Terry Lyons, handing over the "batton" to be delivered to Brandon Manitoba.

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 13

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Lights camera action! Besides being a centerfold in EAA Vintage Aircraft magazine, KDN has also been featured in a TV commercial advertising high speed Internet for the provincial telecommunications company SaskTel. With a 35mm camera in the front seat, I flew formation and aerobatics from the back seat. KDN is unique in that it can be soloed from either seat. Another indication of the lightweight and different handling quality compared to the production models. We continued to fly and display

Dave, James and KDN

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 12

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

"Move up one foot and in three feet." said the photographer over the radio. Here James and I were flying formation with the EAA Photo aircraft over the Wisconsin countryside. What an honour to be asked to do this. One of my favourite aviation writers Bud Davisson had asked to write an article about KDN and our adventures with her. This article appeared in the EAA vintage aircraft magazine and KDN was also featured on the back cover. We had returned to Downsview to collect KDN and fly her to the

James, George, Dave and KDN at Downsview for the Chipmunk 60th anniversary

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 11

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

The airplane felt out of control. It was very pitchy and felt like we had a center of gravity issue I mentioned this to James who was sitting in back. After a short silence he said, “Do you think it has anything to do with the four liters of oil I put in the rear battery compartment?” What! Well ya. I told him to unbuckle and lean as far forward as possible as we flew 150 miles as level as possible and made a straight in landing in Regina. After reloading the airplane we departed in a much

Dave ,George, Graham, James ,in front of KDN after test flight by George

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 10

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

We're on our own. We've been playing for time. And it's running out! This quote from the movie, The Battle of Britain, came to me as we furiously finished up the fabric job and collected all the parts for painting. We had to get the airplane back together, tested, and ready to fly 3,000 km from Saskatoon to Toronto to attend the 60th Anniversary of the Chipmunk on May 22, 2006. The time was a blur, but soon the airplane was sitting outside in the spring sunshine. Time to test fly and we arranged

George Neal a great friend and exceptional pilot. 1918-2016. We miss him.

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 9

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

We met a living legend. George Neal was the original test pilot of KDN, while he was de Havilland Canada’s Chief Pilot. George was retired and living near the original Downsview factory where KDN was built. He was keeping himself busy building a full size replica of a Hawker Hart Biplane in a small second house on his property. He was also still flying his own personal Chipmunk as well as his Hornet Moth. We contacted George to discuss specific features and details about Chipmunks and KDN

Learning the art of polishing aluminum. One step at a time.

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 8

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Not really knowing what we were getting into, we rented another hangar at the airport, put KDN in it, and started taking it completely apart. Removed the wings, landing gear, tail plane, vertical fin, rudder, ailerons, flaps, canopy, cowling, propeller, and seats. We ended up with a hangar full of parts, and no airplane. What have we done! This is a really big job and there is no going back. We ripped off all the old fabric and stored the pieces so we could use them as patterns later when we got

Chipmunk wing with fabric removed.

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 7

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Spring is a happy time on the prairies, but we were not too happy to see the Chipmunk shaped outline of paint on the hangar floor, under KDN. As we were trying to decide what to do about the paint, we went flying. While flying it from my home runway into Saskatoon, I was in the back seat with James flying up front. As he levelled off and started to accelerate I noticed the fabric on the right wing starting to peel back from the inboard leading edge! James immediately slowed down to minimum

KDN being reassembled at Saskatoon Airport.

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 6

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

It was very exciting, to open up that container and see KDN sitting in there, undamaged, and safe and sound on the ramp at Saskatoon Airport. Many friends wanted a quick peek at what we had, but we needed to get busy. We had another 5-hour adventure unloading it but were soon secure in a rented hangar. We would spend another week putting it back together, with Tom Coates coaching. We finished assembly just in time to make an appearance at the Canada Remembers Air Show held at Saskatoon airport

KDN at Bagby being disassembled with the help of Graham Fox and crew.

Adventures with G-AKDN - Chapter 5

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Time to fly this airplane. My first impressions as I climbed up the wing and slid the canopy open was that this was a real vintage airplane. The cockpit had the smell of metal, fuel, oil, leather and old electrical wire. Years later I visited the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier docked in San Diego Harbour. When I walked into the lower hangar deck I was hit with exactly the same smell. This was the smell of aviation history. Strapping into the cockpit that fit like a glove, I realised how much

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