An airplane built by teenage Vancouver brothers in the 1930s is being sought today, with Saskatchewan a possible resting spot.
He believes a very old, very lost airplane rests somewhere in Saskatchewan, waiting to be found.
“I think it’s out there somewhere,” MacVicar says. “It’s big enough to be noticed, and it’s big enough not to be thrown away.” The effort was supported by the entire family, including their mother, who worked with friends to sew the wood-frame fabric. “It was a really exciting day in Chinatown when all these parts came out of this apartment onto Hastings Street, and onto trucks, and driven to the Boeing factory. I could just feel how it must have been.”
The new Pietenpol was registered as CF-BAA. The boys itched to sit at the controls; to launch the craft into the Vancouver sky. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, he muses, to find it again, maybe in an old barn; maybe in a farmyard either busy or abandoned. Perhaps somebody remembers a plane stashed on a plot of rural land. Perhaps, if it’s found, it can be loved and cared for all over again.Article content“My optimism that any of the aircraft is in Saskatchewan still? I’d say … probably 60/40 in favour of it not being there,” Harrod says. “Maybe even more. But you never know.
“Parts could be sitting there against the wall, up in the rafters. Who knows? It could just be the skeleton of a wing, lying up there, and people wouldn’t even realize what it is.”