Stringer, Alfred

STRINGER, Alfred, aviation pioneer (b 26 July 1921, Lancer, SK; d 9 Mar 1997, Victoria). The son of Prairie homesteaders, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII and served as engineering officer in the same Commonwealth Air Training Plan squadron as Carl AGAR. After the war he joined Agar and Barney Bent to found Okanagan Helicopters (see CANADIAN HELICOPTERS LTD) in PENTICTON. In 1960 he married Lynn Henson, the widow of the founder of VANCOUVER ISLAND HELICOPTERS, and later took...

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