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Long timers! Good for them, good for people who still care. ‘Keep them flying!’ - you’ll hear this motto once you get in touch with the world of  ‘Norsemen Festival’ at Red Lake, Ontario.

Yet wonder, for how long they will be ‘on the wing’..  Provided wings (as the most important parts of aircraft structure) are good, it all will probably be dependent on engines.. Radial engines.

“What’s a point“, one may ask, “of ‘keeping them flying’?” - Nobody knows exactly, I guess.. They are still good, they are still making money, they are satisfactory safety-wise, and that’s it. As for their vintage, ‘nostalgic look’ - it is more a ‘bonus’, a ‘by-product of time work’, a beauty of ‘nice aging’, which can obviously be appreciative, may I say so..

Putting a question about ‘ultimate age limit’ that some of them may eventually reach, I believe, in the appropriate time there’ll be units of airworthy aircraft with a hundred-year-old mark on them. At least, we are able to see a good many passionate aviation enthusiasts who could be believed of having put such a goal, of course, - ‘achievable in the near future’:) Oh, I may claim a right to be a founder of such a contest! -

‘FIRST REGISTERED ONE HUNDRED YEAR OLD FLYING PLANE’

 :)

It all depends on engine, good round engine..

 P.S. Here’s more pictures of the Beech-18 at Red Lake.