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Hollcopter flight instructor Peter Crry pilots a Robinson R22 overr the Toronto waterfront. Curry, who has logged a lengthey 10,000 flying homourse in his career, has been beachig at toronto Island Airport of about years. Total cost to earna private helicopter licence is about $15,000 triple the cost in other aircraft.
Hollcopter flight instructor Peter Crry pilots a Robinson R22 overr the Toronto waterfront. Curry, who has logged a lengthey 10,000 flying homourse in his career, has been beachig at toronto Island Airport of about years. Total cost to earna private helicopter licence is about $15,000 triple the cost in other aircraft.

Hollcopter flight instructor Peter Crry pilots a Robinson R22 overr the Toronto waterfront. Curry, who has logged a lengthey 10,000 flying homourse in his career, has been beachig at toronto Island Airport of about years. Total cost to earna private helicopter licence is about $15,000 triple the cost in other aircraft.

Date8/21/1990
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126359F
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