N16039 is airworthy as of 2021 and we can all relate to this airshow atmosphere - but this is 1937! The Ryan Sport-Trainer was owned by aerobatic pilot Tex Rankin. Photo by: James Crookall / City of Vancouver Archives

Aircraft of the US Naval Air Reserve visiting the Western Canada Air Show in 1937. BuNo 9471 crashed less than two months later in Port Townsend, Washington. The second aircraft is 9483, the fourth is Grumman JF Duck 9839. On the far left is a Supermarine Walrus from the British cruiser Exeter, K8341. Photo by: James Crookall / City of Vancouver Archives

The Grumman SF was a reconnaissance variant of the FF 'Fifi', little different from the two-seat fighter. The FF and SF were both retired from first-line US Navy squadrons by the end of 1936 and allocated to Naval Air Reserve units. On the left is BuNo 9471. Photo by: James Crookall / City of Vancouver Archives

Registered on 10 May 1937. Purchased to survey the so-called Trans-Canada Airway, this aircraft made the first Montreal to Vancouver flight in one day, with five stops along the way. Donated to the Canada Aviation Museum in 1963. Photo by: James Crookall / City of Vancouver Archives

Walrus K8341 / 780 was carried by the cruiser HMS Exeter in the Pacific, together with K8343 / 769. Both aircraft visited the airshow at Vancouver in 1937 and this photo was most probably taken there. The badge on the tailfin, a lion on waves, is Exeter's. K8341 may have become a victim of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee when her gunfire struck Exeter off the Rio de la Plata on 13 December 1939. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

US Navy participation at one of the airshows held at Vancouver - Sea Island before the war, almost certainly the 1937 edition. The JF Duck was the forerunner of the J2F Duck. Photo by: James Crookall / City of Vancouver Archives

A Walrus at an airshow on the Candian west coast. K8343 / 769 and K8341 / 780 were on board the British cruiser Exeter which visited Victoria, BC in the summer of 1937. K8343 was probably no longer assigned to the ship at the time of the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939, in which Exeter's aircraft were damaged by shells from Admiral Graf Spee and dumped overboard. Photo by: James Crookall / City of Vancouver Archives