Abbotsford Air Show 2026
The 15th Field Artillery Museum participated at the Abbotsford Air Show with the M37 3/4 Ton and the Iltis alongside the M109 and other vehicles from Major (ret'd) Ian Newby's Western Museum of the Armed Forces. A big shout out to Ian Smith, Darren Kostinuk, Terry Stratton and Ken Shaw plus the guys from IMS for the time they devoted to getting the M109 show ready. It was really impressive and brought back a lot of memories for visitors that had served on that particular gun. Also need to thank the guys from Western Command for allowing us to join them.
The weather was sunny and hot throughout the weekend and we counted 1,167 people that came through the Western Command gate from 1000 hrs until 1100 hours on Sunday morning, which was apparently the quiet time. We also tracked the number of times that the "15th Field Artillery Regiment Museum" was mentioned by Bog Mugford and Fraser Leith on Friday and Saturday - that came out to 95. Add in our "Instagram Photo Opportunity" and I would say that we received a very fair return on our investment of a lot of personal time, a few litres of gas and the yearly insurance costs.
The weather was sunny and hot throughout the weekend and we counted 1,167 people that came through the Western Command gate from 1000 hrs until 1100 hours on Sunday morning, which was apparently the quiet time. We also tracked the number of times that the "15th Field Artillery Regiment Museum" was mentioned by Bog Mugford and Fraser Leith on Friday and Saturday - that came out to 95. Add in our "Instagram Photo Opportunity" and I would say that we received a very fair return on our investment of a lot of personal time, a few litres of gas and the yearly insurance costs.
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Still working the bugs out of video productions.
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