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Friday 25th March 2005 JURGIS KAIRY'S ARRIVES! Jon Davison and his trusty camera recorded Jurgis Kairy's, his son Mantas and photographer Taro Imahara during the two receptions. Firstly at the Royal Aero Club of WA, then at Fighter Combat International. 
 Yurgis & Werner Buhlmann at Skippers Aviation, in the RACWA Tiger VH-FAS.  Yurgis being interviewed at the RACWA reception.  Mantas, Yurgis & Drew Searle and the P51D at the FCI reception.  Mantas Kairy's in an FCI CJ-6A Nanchang 
Photographer Taro Imahara beside an FCI CJ-6A Nanchang Jurgis is scheduled to appear twice on both days of the Airshow at Cunderdin. All photos © Jon Davison 2005 Mustangs for Cunderdin 2005!  Bill Wlyyie's P-51D WW2 Mustang and a Mach 1 Ford Mustang car, two star performers for 2005. The car was actually named after the WW2 Mustang aircraft, not the horse! POLICE
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SAT NIGHT Entertainment The formatt for Saturday night has been changed. Although the bar and catering facilities will remain open, there will be no noisy rock band to spoil the sound of night flying model helicopters or distracting you from hearing the occasional bomb detonated. We are also hoping to have a performance from the Police Pipe Band, and plenty of opportunity just to sit , relax and chat about the days exciting events. We are also expecting a large number of campers on Sat night and have allocated a much larger area to accommodate the expected crowd. The First Gift World War II pilot Donald John McCaskill, who died while training at Cunderdin Airfield, will be honoured by the unveiling of a memorial plaque at the Cunderdin Easter Air Show. The plaque has been part funded by his daughter Margaret Williams(nee McCaskill) who was born after her father’s death in 1943. Leading Aircraftman Donald John McCaskill, trainee pilot was killed in a mid-air collision while receiving his elementary flying instruction, in the Empire Air Training Scheme for the European and Pacific theatres of war. There were two other airmen who perished in this accident; the highly regarded Flying Officer, Francis Gregory English, Commonly known as “Paddy English” and trainee pilot, Leading Aircraftman Donald Joseph St Clair Fraser. It is believed that the death of these three men were the only Tiger Moth flying fatalities to happen on site during the five years that Cunderdin Airfield served as a training base for hopeful young pilots. These men will be honoured with the unveiling of a memorial plaque and a Tiger Moth Fly past, for loss of life while training to join the allied forces to bring WW2 to an end. Soon after the tragedy while living in Northampton; Vera McCaskill, gave birth to their first and only child Margaret. Later when Margaret was enrolled at school in Geraldton, a teacher named Ken Mackenzie became interested when he heard that the daughter of Donald McCaskill would be a student there, because he had a dear friend who was also named Donald McCaskill. The meeting with this teacher proved to be one of providence as the late Mrs. McCaskill and Mr. Mackenzie were eventually married by the “friend” of the same name; who turned out to be the well-known “Flying Padre,”Reverend Donald McCaskill. Rev. McCaskill, Minister of the Methodist Church of WA, used to live and preach in Cunderdin, and all were touched by the moving conclusion to the chain of events that had brought them all together. Margaret donated $500 dollars towards a special memorial plaque to be unveiled on Sunday March 27th 2005, 11 pm at the Easter Air Show in Cunderdin. Margaret said it was with a great mixture of emotions that she realized that, “This was the first time in my life that I have ever had an opportunityto make a gift to my father, and it is very special to be able to do so.” Many people from the Cunderdin community will be present at the memorial service as there was a great camaraderie felt for those who trained at Cunderdin to help fight WW2 from the air. Joy flights will be available at Cunderdin in the following aircraft • Tiger moth • Chipmunk • Cessna 172 • Jetranger Helicopters • Skippers Brasillia • Nanchang CJ-6A • P-51D Mustang • L39 Albatross • AT-6G Texan 
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