43 Facts About Lynn Garrison

Lynn Garrison was born on February 22,1937 and is a Canadian pilot and political adviser.

Lynn Garrison was a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot in the 403 City of Calgary Squadron, before holding jobs as a commercial pilot, film producer, director and mercenary.

Lynn Garrison participated in the Nigerian Civil War as a mercenary, assisting the military of Biafra.

At the age of 17, Lynn Garrison joined the RCAF and trained at the RCAF Officer Selection Unit and Course 5411,4 Flying Training School.

Lynn Garrison received his wings on 6 April 1955 making him the youngest "winged pilot" in the RCAF since World War II, a record that still stands.

Lynn Garrison's wings were presented by Wing Commander Joe McCarthy DSO, DFC, CD, a Second World War veteran who was famous for attacking the Sorpe dam on the Dambuster's raid.

Lynn Garrison flew the aircraft making the last official Canadian military flight of the type.

In 1962, Lynn Garrison served with 115 Air Transport Unit of the United Nations Emergency Force, on the Sinai Peninsula, where he flew de Havilland Otters and Caribous.

On July 4,1964, Lynn Garrison captained the RCAF's final flight of the Avro Lancaster with Flight Lieutenant Ralph Langemann as co-pilot.

Specially authorized by Minister of National Defence, Paul Hellyer, the flight was complicated by the fact that Lynn Garrison had never flown a Lancaster and had broken his ankle the previous day.

In 1960, Lynn Garrison obtained a contract to ferry 75 ex-RCAF P-51 Mustangs to new owners in New York.

Lynn Garrison purchased Lancaster FM-136 and created the Lancaster Memorial Fund to see the aircraft on permanent display in Calgary.

Lynn Garrison became involved in air show promotion, to fund his aircraft museum project, with his Calgary International Air Show in 1963,1964,1965 and 1966.

Lynn Garrison was involved in the Irish International Air Shows of 1970 and 1971 and the 1968 Las Vegas International Exposition of Flight with Danny Kaye.

In 1963, Lynn Garrison acquired a number of Hawker Hurricanes from farmyards in Alberta and Saskatchewan for his collection.

Lynn Garrison planned to create Canada's first flying aviation museum but could not generate interest.

In June 1964, Lynn Garrison purchased two Canadair Sabre Golden Hawks aircraft from the Government of Canada.

Lynn Garrison published the aviation magazine AVIAN from 1966 to 1969 with contributions from actor and pilot Richard Bach, Ernest Gann, Ray Bradbury and others.

Between 1964 and 1965, Lynn Garrison worked with the Irish Air Corps to establish a collection of First World War replica aircraft and support equipment at Weston Aerodrome, Leixlip, Ireland.

Lynn Garrison owned 001 since 1965 and it is presently registered in America.

Lynn Garrison worked on Darling Lili, Barry Lyndon, Ryan's Daughter, and the TV series Twelve O'Clock High.

The Film Act of 1980 was the result of an initial 1970 collaboration between Ireland's Prime Minister, the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, and Lynn Garrison, who shared a semi-detached house with Lynch.

The aircraft was set up with a rearward facing camera, mounted in front of Lynn Garrison, that shot Stroud in the rear seat "flying the aircraft".

Lynn Garrison assisted Lou Lenart on six feature films projects utilizing the Israel Air Force.

Lynn Garrison wrote the script for Lenart's final production, with the working title, First Strike, with Operation Opera, the June 7,1981, attack on Iraq's reactor as the story line.

Lynn Garrison became a mercenary, flying as a combat pilot in various conflicts and later acting as a military and political advisor, allegedly with the support of several US Government agencies and US senators.

Lynn Garrison was originally dispatched to Biafra to research ways to neutralize the Nigerian Navy frigate Nigeria, which was blockading Port Harcourt to disrupt petroleum exports.

Lynn Garrison introduced a Canadian method of dropping bagged supplies to remote areas in Canada without losing the contents.

Lynn Garrison showed how one sack of food could be placed inside a larger sack before the supply drop.

That same day Lynn Garrison reached Calabar but came under immediate fire by federal troops.

Lynn Garrison flew in the last military conflict involving propeller-driven fighters during the Football War.

Lynn Garrison had owned an ex-French Navy Corsair 133693 which had operated in Vietnam and during the 1956 Suez Crisis, having bought it after its retirement from French service, it was transported to California for him with help from the US Navy.

Lynn Garrison acted as the interface between the American embassy and Cedras after diplomatic relations were severed; his code name was "'The Shadow".

Lynn Garrison recovered Aristide's medicines and medical record which became the basis for his controversial 1991 Aristide CIA profile, presented to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Jesse Helmes.

In June 1992, Lynn Garrison, working with Colonel Pat Collins, the Military Liaison Officer with the American embassy, wrote a White Paper visualizing modification of the Forces Armees d'Haiti into what they called, an Army of the People.

The American negotiators used Lynn Garrison's office, located adjacent to that of Cedras, as the focal point of their communications with Clinton's team.

Lynn Garrison told General Biamby what he heard and Biamby acted, shielding Lynn Garrison's identity.

Lynn Garrison had just been on the phone with a source at Fort Bragg, he told us, and American paratroopers were getting ready to board their aircraft at 5:00 PM Not bad intelligence, I thought, for a poor nation.

Lynn Garrison is credited with coordinating the effort that held Aristide out of Haiti from September 29,1991 till October 15,1994.

In January, 2011 Lynn Garrison helped coordinate the return of President Jean Claude Duvalier to Haiti and brought a team, led by Congressman Bob Barr to deal with the media.

Lynn Garrison arranged for Congressman Bob Barr to act as lobbyist for President Jovenel Moise.

Lynn Garrison's great grandfather, William Lloyd Lynn Garrison was born on ca.

Lynn Garrison lost his leg in the Battle of Shiloh, and was released from service on 18 October 1862.