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Multicoloured plaque № 50052

Kamloops, BC, Canada

Kamloops Airport - Fulton Field. The earliest flight into Kamloops was in 1918 just fifteen years after the Wright brothers' successful flight. The plane landed at the Cooney farm at Tranquille. Other local highlights included passengers paying $15.00 for joy-rides known as "barnstorming", the first

mail flight, and Jeanne Gilbert (née Genier) becoming the first woman in BC to obtain a private pilot's licence. The search for a permanent airfield was not resolved until 1931 when City Council chos

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