Charley Fox was born February 1920, in Guelph, Ontario. He joined the R.C.A.F. in 1940. He was an instructor at Dunnville, Ontario from October 1941 to May 1943 when he went to an Operational Training Unit at Bagotville, Quebec. In August 1943, he went to Europe to fly Spitfires and eventually joined 412 Squadron. After the war he served with 420 Reserve Squadron, flying Harvards, P-51 Mustangs and T-33 jets.

Key West aerobatic pilot, Fred Cabanas, who entertained hundreds of thousands of people around the world died Tuesday 15th January 2013 in an aviation accident near Cozumel, Mexico. More on Freddie Cabanas’s website here

I met Fred at the 2008 Geneseo Airshow where he was flying a Stearman Junior Speedmail. He was one of those people you become instant friends with. I had the privilege of photographing Fred flying the Junior Speedmail over Niagara Falls while he recreated a mail flight from Geneseo to Niagara Falls. Before the flight he was sworn in by the US Postal Service so he could carry official mail on the flight.

Photos of Fred flying the Junior Speedmail