As many of our member are former air force, and several of these events are virtual or have an online component, we wanted to pass this information along.
Please accept the best of wishes for a Happy New Year from all your fellow members of the RCAF Association. We also extend these wishes to all of our important stakeholders – those with a vested interest in the success of our organization, and in what we can do for you.
2024
It is here; the centennial year during which we will mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Royal Canadian Air Force. If you are a leader or member of one of our many RCAF Association Wings or if you are a member-at-large, if you are planning or anticipating activities to take place in your community, please share details with director@airforce.ca at your earliest opportunity. We are somewhat aware of plans underway in Kingston (416) and Trenton (413) and London (427) and Kitchener-Waterloo (404) and North Bay (422) and 102 (Truro) and 306 (Montreal) and 302 (Quebec City) and Calgary (783) and Comox (888) and Nanaimo (808), but we are short on details. If you can please share. The Minister of Veterans Affairs and the Association Minister of National Defence will be visiting the RCAF Association later next week to hear about your activities, and to learn more about the RCAF Association everywhere throughout Canada.
RCAF Ball 2024
The RCAF Ball will take place on 1 June 2024 in Ottawa at the Infinity Conference Centre. Ticket sales are anticipated to begin mid-February 2024.
Air Force Day on Parliament Hill 2024
The annual Advocacy Reception – Air Force Day on Parliament Hill 2024 will take place on Tuesday 21 May 2024 in Ottawa at the Sir John A Macdonald Building. The Commander RCAF and party of 65 will join aerospace industry representatives and parliamentarians to learn from each other of the issues that underscore important civilian and military aerospace decisions.
RCAF 2024 Run
The RCAF 2024 Run will be held from 31 May to 16 June 2024. You can follow all the outcomes and activities in the run, here at this link. The Executive Director is registered again, this year; Dean Black’s page can be viewed here at this link, if you would like to donate to the RCAF Centennial Fund by “sponsoring” Dean’s run. Supporters helped raise more than $2,000 last year and this put the RCAF Association at the top of the winner’s list with the highest supporting donations to a participant. Thank you everyone.
Newsletters and Bulletins
We continue to share all Wing bulletins and newsletters sent to us in PDF. Members interested in Wing activities across the country can visit the following website to view for free all of the various newsletters and bulletins shared with us here. Visit this link: https://www.magloft.com/app/rcafmag/
Revue Airforce Magazine
Volume 47 No 3 has been published – a digital format is available at https://www.magloft.com/app/rcafmag/ and accessible for those digital subscribers, who can also view their magazine (and free newseltters and bulletings) through the AppleStore and GooglePlay apps on their mobile phones. The hardcopy of the magazine is now with the printers – all proofs have been approved, and the magazine should begin mailing after 18 January 2024.
Election Results
Thank you to all who participated in the 2023 general elections on-line, recently. The results have been shared with the Chairman of the RCAF Association Board of Directors and a communiqué/announcement should be released in the coming days.
Questions may be directed to director@airforce.ca
Royal Canadian Air Force Association,405-222 Somerset St. West Ottawa ON K2P 2G3 CANADA, Phone Number:(613) 232-4281, Fax Number: (613) 232-2156, Email Address: director@airforce.ca, Website : http://rcafassociation.ca
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