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Part Three: Hawker Tempest II MW376 Restoration Project at KF Aerospace
The team tackles the hydraulics system on the Hawker and the project becomes a true family affair for KF Aerospace founder Barry Lapointe.
Update: July 2021 – the Centre is coming together!
Wow! What a difference a month makes. In our May/June 2021 construction update for the KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence, we showed you the foundation going in and ...
Update: May/ June 2021
Following our official groundbreaking in March, construction on the Centre for Excellence has been heating up (along with the weather). Not only have we seen much of ...
Part Two: Hawker Tempest II MW376 Restoration Project at KF Aerospace
The team leans on their strengths and confronts some conventional wisdom to make significant progress on this one-of-a-kind historical restoration project. Watch Part Two below: ...
Return of the Odyssey 86
The KF Aerospace facility in Kelowna had a very special arrival on April 11, 2021. A DC-3 - the same one that KF founder Barry Lapointe flew around the ...
The Honourable Harjit Sajjan Announces Federal Funding for Centre of Excellence
Another week, another big milestone for the KF Aerospace for Excellence. Yesterday, The Honourable Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence, joined us virtually to announce some federal funding for ...
Centre celebrates official groundbreaking
On Thursday, March 26, 2021, The KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence officially broke ground on its future location at 5800 Lapointe Drive, Kelowna International Airport (YLW). To mark the ...
Hawker Tempest Restoration Project: Watch Part One
A lifelong aviation enthusiast, KF Aerospace founder and CEO Barry Lapointe is on a mission to restore a WWII-era Hawker Tempest II and get it back in the air. ...
Centre for Excellence Updated Renderings – Jan 2021
Check out our latest renderings for the Centre! We're getting excited and we hope you are too.
Kelowna City Council Approves Development Permit
On Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Kelowna City Council approved the development permit for our 3-storey aviation museum and conference centre at YLW Airport, expected to open in 2022. "To ...
KF Centre for Excellence Unveils Updated Building Plans
The state-of-the-art aviation museum and conference centre is intended to be built at a revised location on Lapointe Drive beside the Kelowna International Airport. September 22, 2020—Kelowna—The KF ...
Restoring the Hawker Tempest MK. II
76 years after missing its role in the theatre of war, the Hawker Tempest II will take centre stage in Okanagan skies thanks to a breakthrough restoration by KF ...