For more up to date information, please check out our new web site: www.lakesuperiorsquadron.org The 12 Planes of Christmas campaign kicked off today. For those interested in donating to our PBY Catalina restoration project, you can please follow this link: PBY-6A N7179Y If you want to check out all the […]
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CAF-LSS has a new web site
The CAF Lake Superior Squadron is moving to a new online home. https://www.lakesuperiorsquadron.org/ Our current home www.cafduluth.com will remain active for now, but please look to our new web site for all our current news and information.
Holiday Fundraising Campaign
The Commemorative Air Force – Lake Superior Squadron is a new resident to the Bong Airport in Superior, WI. The Commemorative Air Force is a group of over 70 squadrons that maintains and restores over 160 World War II era aircraft back to flight status. We do this to honor the WW II […]
Black Cat PBY graces Bong Airport
The Lake Superior Squadron recently achieved a major milestone in its restoration of a PBY into a static display. The 104 foot, 5000 pound wing was reinstalled back onto the fuselage of the plane giving visitors an idea of how impressive this aircraft is. This PBY is painted all black […]
CAF-LSS is featured on The Slice
This week WDSE/WRPT will be featuring the Lake Superior Squadrons ongoing restoration of our PBY-6A. You can check this out (as well as more interesting things from the Twin Ports area) here: https://theslice.tv/video/pby-catalina-restoration-commemorative-air-force
Media Gallery
Katharine Huntley of Fox 21 Rides CAF Aircraft and Interviews members
Katharine Huntley of Fox 21 news tours the Lake Superior Squadron and takes a ride in the Minnesota wing’s visiting SNJ. CAF-LSS members Eric Moore, Robert Wolfe, and Jessica McMahan are interviewed and their passion for keeping these historic planes in the air really shows! Flying High Over the Northland […]
CAF-LSS Interview on Fox21
Fox21 interviewed CAF-LSS’s own DeWayne Tomasek about this Saturday’s big event and on our ongoing restoration projects, check it out here: Classic Car and Plane Show Taking Over the Bong Airport Saturday
WWII Era Plane to visit on Aug 17th, Rides Available!
A WWII era advanced trainer is visiting the Lake Superior Squadron during it’s “PBY Black Cat classic car and plane show” event. The WWII era SNJ is the Navy version of the T-6 Advanced trainer that trained pilots of all branches of the US military from WW II into the […]
Updated Display at the LSS museum
Located on the backside of the new shop area our CAF crew recreated this display with the Northland Vietnam Veterans Association’s donation. Previously located in the St. Louis County Historical Museum this display was also viewed in our Duluth, MN location.