I did a quick search and didn't find this posted already, but we lost a fellow RV pilot on the weekend. Mike Chyzyk, from Corman Air Park, SK, died when his RV-4 crashed near Sylvan Lake, AB. No word on cause, but the photo in the attached news story seems to show the airframe relatively intact. The TSB is investigating.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2687492/saskatchewan-man-dies-in-plane-crash-near-sylvan-lake/
Note that the news has his name spelled wrong, it took quite a while to figure out who it was and what airplane it was. I know the name is familiar, but I still don't know why. There is a Mike Chysyk here on VAF but the site only reports he ever made a couple of posts. The RV-4 appears to be serial number 799, built by Jake Thiessen as N504JT in 1988, then had another owner (or two?) before being imported to Canada in 2010 as C-GGYT.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2687492/saskatchewan-man-dies-in-plane-crash-near-sylvan-lake/
Note that the news has his name spelled wrong, it took quite a while to figure out who it was and what airplane it was. I know the name is familiar, but I still don't know why. There is a Mike Chysyk here on VAF but the site only reports he ever made a couple of posts. The RV-4 appears to be serial number 799, built by Jake Thiessen as N504JT in 1988, then had another owner (or two?) before being imported to Canada in 2010 as C-GGYT.
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