Help us get our Tiger Moth flying again Gofundme

[Bill Bunting]

Hello BM'ers!  I am involved in a small group named the Edenvale Classic Aircraft Foundation    http://www.classicaircraft.ca/     in Stayner (north of Toronto) Ontario Canada.  We are  a small museum based at an ex- BCATP field and we have two 1943 trainers that we use to give the public "Experience flights". They are a Fleet PT-26 Cornell and a DH98a Tiger Moth.  Our Cornell is in great shape and we are busy giving rides, however, our Tiger Moth was damaged in a accident in 2017 and is still under repair.  Although we are going through insurance to repair the aircraft, there is a large gap in what they are paying and what is required to get everything back to top condition.  Once you open an 85 year old wing and fuselage to fix it you inevitably find more work to be done replacing worn or just too old components. 

 

As a result we are finding ourselves in a position between not getting our Tiger back into the air at all or running our small not for profit organisation into debt. We are running fund raising activities locally and we are also looking to the world wide aviation community to see if anyone out there would like to help.  We have started a Gofundme campaign and I would like to present it here and I ask that you consider the request and/or spread the word to others who you may feel are interested.

 

And if any of you are visiting in the Toronto / Georgian Bay area anytime please contact us or me and perhaps come visit.  You may even consider a flight over some of the best scenery in Ontario.

 

Thank you!!

 

https://www.gofundme.com/restore-a-1943-dehavilland-tiger-moth-to-flight

 

Edited November 18, 2018 by Bill Bunting