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IMPORTANT
UPDATE - May 25, 2023 (see NEWS section for other updates) PLEASE NOTE: When the previous webmaster, Bob Eley, passed away in May 2017, he left a request to
have the website paid for and maintained for 1 year. If at the end of that time, no one was able to takeover ownership, the
site was to be shut down. Knowing how much my dad loved his flying days and the squadron, I have kept the site going for over
6 years while pursuing other options, including RCAF History And Heritage, to see if there was any interest in taking
on the website or at least archiving some of its historical data. Unfortunately, these endeavours have been in vain and the
website is now going to be shut down. I have however, backed up all the pages within the website and stored them in Google Drive at the
location below, if anyone wants to view or download their own copy. All the web pages are available, but viewable only as
individual, static pages. *** https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WosLDCa2SIoc2kT9Dx2k3LSJEVNvxzQy?usp=share_link *** If anyone out there is interested in taking ownership of the site, please contact me asap. Be aware though, the website was built on long obsolete
technology and most pages are impossible to maintain at this point. The website would need to be re-developed from
scratch using newer tools. Regards, Brian Eley 416 was reactivated at Saint-Hubert, Québec as the "LYNX" All Weather Fighter Squadron on Friday, 1 February 1957. She was equipped with Avro's CF-100 Mk-V (powered by 2 Orenda 11 engines), and served at Saint-Hubert until disbandment on 30 September 1961.
(For a stylized and frameable condensation of the squadron's history, please go to this link.)
This site is dedicated to those who flew, under the "Punchbowl" call sign, the One and Only "Made in Canada" fighter aircraft to make it to production status.
Now you know who we are, let's have a look
at the aircraft we were privileged to fly in. In her time, she was the best - not just in Canada, but in the world. If
there is a theme for this web site, it can be summarized by paraphrasing a familiar book/film title: "We were airmen once ... and young."
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