Chris Weicht

Works by Chris Weicht:

• Red Star Over Columbia
• Alberta Skies
• First Flight West
• Yukon Airways
• Trans Canada Airway
• Air Route to the Klondike
• Pacific Airway
• North by Northwest
• Jericho Beach and the West Coast Flying Boat Stations
• The Defenders

A celebrated pilot and author, Chris Weicht was inducted into the B.C. Aviation Hall of Fame in 2017.

From Black Press Media July 31, 2017, 6:00 PM Chris Weicht, ". . .Is the author of eight books about the history of aviation in British Columbia and the Yukon, including the forthcoming A Red Star in Canadian Skies, about the first nonstop flight from Moscow to Oregon. An immigrant to Canada at the age of 13, Weicht joined the air cadets at 17 and the Royal Canadian Air Force as soon as he was finished high school. He thanked the former for providing him the impetus to start his aviation career — a career that would span 61 years and 17,000 hours of flight time. . . His work took him all across the province — as far north as the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line in the Northwest Territories with Pacific West Airlines and as close to home as Comox with the RCAF. He finished his career as an author and Air Cadet instructor in Abbotsford.