Photos from the 2005 Labour Day Weekend
Fly-In and Drive-In at Stanley Airport

Revised Version October 2008

Thanks to Bob Hamilton, Clive Reddin and Roger Phinney of BATANS for helping me out on identifying both autos and planes

Special thanks to David C. Fletcher of Courtenay BC who used to fly in to Stanley and corrected some of my mis-identifications of the aircraft.

Automobiles belong to members of the British Auto Touring Association of Nova Scotia, (BATANS).

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	BATANS Group Photo 1. Note teal blue MGB GT and blue TR6 in foreground.
	BATANS Group Photo 2. (That's my green MGB with the boot open). They're all peering at a very rare and beautiful Vauxhall Victor.
	BATANS Group Photo 3. Lovely wire-wheel MGB with club emblem; noticeably smaller brown MG Midget behind. Left is an elegant TR3 racing model.
	BATANS Photo 4. Magnificent handcrafted wood interior in the TR6.
	BATANS Photo 5. The perfectly restored TR3, cockpit details.
	BATANS Photo 6. The Queen of the BATANS fleet today! Roger Phinney's magnificent Jaguar XK150 coupe, one of a vanishing breed. Thanks to Roger and Bob Hamilton of BATANS for the information.
	A gleaming Van's RV-4 homebuilt. That's an RV-6 in the background.
	Another colourful RV-6. Note the humourous registration code!
	Joe Hines' RV-4. In the background is a plane I forgot to identify. Looks almost like an American AA5-B Cheetah but I'm not certain.
	Looking into the cockpit of Joe's RV-4. There is a big investment in avionics inside!
	Left to right: Piper Tri-Pacer, Jodel D-11, Piper Tomahawk. Note Casper, the dog relaxing under the Piper.
	Here's Casper. He and his co-pilot were camping under the wing of his Tomahawk!
	The cozy cockpit of the Tomahawk.
	Front view of the Jodel. An uncommon bird in these parts.
	Yet another shot of the Jodel.
	A beautifully maintained Bellanca Citabria. (For the uninitiated, "Citabria" is "Airbatic" spelled backwards).
	A beautiful antique Aeronca Champ.
	Here's that lovely 1950's Piper Tri-Pacer, restored to better than new condition.
	A HiMax Homebuilt. Very nicely built indeed!
	Another view of the HiMax. In the background is the plane I want for Christmas, a Kolb Ultralight. The smudge is a bit of date muffin on the camera lens :-).
	One of three detail views of the Kolb. It will fit nicely in my barn and take off from my east lawn, so it's a very practical gift for me!
	Looking into the Kolb from the front. Note the cute little hydraulic brakes
	Here's the power plant on the Kolb.
	A nice Cessna 172 in C.O.P.A. livery
	This beautifully restored Cessna 170 tail dragger is a doyen at the Stanley club. The car in the background is an equally rare Studebaker Avanti.
	Piper Cherokee owned by Ron Cooper (the head man at tartannet.ns.ca). That's man-about-town and champion golfer Fred Fletcher posing by the wing!
	Now for some Fly-By shots. Here's a Cessna 172 taking off.
	Cessna 172 coming in. The arm signal obviously means "I'm slowing down"!
	Same Cessna leaving.
	The C.O.P.A. Cessna 172 arriving ...
	and leaving.
	I had no idea what this is and he didn't land so I could identify it. Bob Hamilton sniffed round and identified it as a "CT SportWing", built in Germany.
	Couldn't identify this but David Fletcher recognized it as a Miranda (homebuilt).
	On the ground again. A whimsically painted (and registered) Challenger Ultralight.
	Front view of C-IDOG. The real dogs were not in evidence.
	An unusual amphibian conversion of a Challenger. I'd like one of these too!
	Here's an Osprey, a homebuilt 2 seat amphibian pusher. One of these is in the Toronto Aerospace Museum. Thanks to Clive Reddin of BATANS for identifying this.
	This tiny plane is a KR-2 Hawk based at Stanley. Some radio controlled models are as big as this!
	This gorgeous Stinson four seater is another resident at Stanley.
	I saved the rarest bird until the last. This is a 1956 Funk Monoplane, very probably the only one still flying. Note the old style registration number.