Snowbirds’ White Rock show on track for Aug. 12

Snowbirds’ White Rock show on track for Aug. 12

The iconic Canadian Snowbirds may not be back in the air for a few years once the 2026 show season wraps up, but that news – delivered earlier this month – does not change their scheduled performance over White Rock this summer. “It was booked before the announcement,” Scott Harrold said Friday (May 22) of the Aug. 12 Wings Over White Rock event. “And we’re pumped for it.” Harrold – a White Rock resident whose history with the Snowbirds dates ba…

Keep the snowbirds flying!

I hope most Canadians were as appalled as I was when I heard the Carney government was going to ground the Snowbirds, the fabulous Royal Canadian Air Force aerobatic team that has existed under the Snowbirds name since 1971. They were originally formed as an informal group by a base commander in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Colonel O.B. Philp.  The roots of the Snowbirds go back to the 1950s, when flying demonstrations became popular among the publi…