John Robinson
President
John has been a member since 2002, has his Commercial Pilot License and Instrument Rating. John is an active member as a Yellowbird pilot, flying the DHC-1 Chipmunks.
Dave Carrick
Vice President / Chief Pilot
David Carrick has been a member since 2013 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 2015 as the Director of Flight Operations. David was appointed the position of Chief Pilot in 2020 and is responsible for maintaining both pilot proficiency and the flying standards for the organization, as well as onboarding and training new pilots. David carries a Commercial Pilot’s License and multi-engine rating and enjoys flight testing both new and historical aircraft.
Katie Mack
Director
Katie Mack is an instrument-rated private pilot who joined the museum in 2022 and became a Yellow Bird pilot in 2025 flying the Chipmunk. She is currently working on her CPL rating and on improving her aerobatic skills. Career-wise, she is an astrophysics researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, where she studies the mysteries of the cosmos and shares her work with the public through books, talks, articles, and videos.
Michael Beneteau
Director
Dave Fluke
Director
Don Christopher
Director Lancaster Project
After a 20 year career in Information technology, Don became a volunteer at CH2A in 2012, working on the Lancaster restoration. In 2014 he joined the Board of Directors and became Lancaster Project Director the following year. He was appointed Vice-President in 2015 and President in 2020.
Peter Rodgers
Director
Was a machine repairman at GM transmission.
Peter has been working on the Mosquito project for about 10 years.
John Burford
Director
MASc, PEng., PPL, Trekie and all-round amateur mechanic and builder of stuff.
John is a retired aluminum cylinder block casting engineer from Ford/Nemak. Joined the museum in 2018 and is lifetime airplane crazy.
Steve Thorne
Director of Marketing
An active Yellow Bird pilot, and a filmmaker, Steve also runs a YouTube channel called “Flight Chops” sharing a wide variety of general aviation flying and training. In fact his entire museum fleet check-out process to learn to fly the Chipmunk and then the Harvard was shared there.
More recently Steve managed a project to acquire and build a Van’s Aircraft RV-14 with a team of volunteers from the museum and it was painted with livery reminiscent of the ‘Yellow Birds’. The aircraft is flown to major aviation events where it is often on display, proudly representing the Canadian Aviation Museum.
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