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News Releases - 5/29/2006
Cormorant Launched to Airlift Patient off Cruise Ship
19WNR: 06/35,  A 442 Squadron Cormorant and crew were launched on Sunday, May 28, for an air medical evacuation (medevac) of a 59-year-old man on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Radiance of the Seas. » Read More

Features - 5/29/2006
Simulated battle, real training
Launching missiles, evading torpedoes, communicating with allied vessels and aircraft; these are not the types of things you make up as you go along. That is why 19 Wing was among the diverse list of participants in the Canadian-led Exercise... » Read More

News Releases - 5/26/2006
Savvy Computer Tech Wins Service Person of the Quarter Award
19WNR 06/34  If you find computer repair about as easy to grasp as, say, quantum mechanics, take heart – until recently, 19 Wing’s latest Service Person of the Quarter didn’t know anything about it either. » Read More

News Releases - 5/21/2006
442 Squadron Rescues Injured Hiker
NR 06/033  A Cormorant helicopter was launched Sunday afternoon, 21 May, to rescue a hiker on Mount Arrowsmith who had fallen and impaled himself on a branch. » Read More

News Releases - 5/18/2006
442 Squadron Responds to Airplane Crash
NR 06/032  A Cormorant helicopter and a Buffalo aircraft were launched Thursday afternoon in response to an aircraft crash approximately 20 km east of Pemberton. » Read More

News Releases - 5/15/2006
Y2K on Canvas: Spitfire Print a Story of its Own
19WNR: 06/31a sidebar  Just weeks after the D-Day landings in 1944, 442 Squadron’s Flight Lieutenant Arnold “Rosy” Roseland, flying Spitfire Y2K, spotted a pair of German Focke-Wulf 190s while on patrol over the Normandy beachheads.
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News Releases - 5/15/2006
Comox Team on Epic Journey to Build, Fly Spitfire
NR 06/031  – In a small hangar near the Comox Air Force Museum, five men have been toiling for years in the hopes of producing a little aeronautical alchemy. » Read More

News Releases - 5/2/2006
Cormorant Launches from 19 Wing to Search for Missing Person
19WNR: 06/30  The Cormorant was launched to Cameron Lake, located in the Little Qualicum Falls Provincial Park west of Parksville. They were looking for a person believed to be in the lake, according to eyewitnesses. » Read More

News Releases - 4/28/2006
19 Wing Comox Firefighter Blazes New Trail Overseas
19WNR: 06/029  If the relentless dust around Kandahar was combustible, the Canadian Forces’ senior firefighter in Afghanistan would really have his hands full. » Read More

News Releases - 4/25/2006
SURVIVOR, RESCUE SQUADRON MARK 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF CRASH
19 WING COMOX – A ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the crash of a Royal Canadian Air Force flying boat that claimed the lives of all but one of its six-man crew was held yesterday at the Hope Princeton Slide site. » Read More