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Story by Jack Meadows Published with kind permission from West Coast Aviator Magazine ...continued from page five David had got a Commerce Degree as well as his commercial pilot's license. In 1973, Art sold him the flying school whose twenty-five aircraft continued, for some years, to clock up 20,000 hours flying a year. In 1989, David, in turn sold the school (it later went bust) and at the same time, his Father sold the Fort Langley operation.  David kept a Stearman from the transaction for his father to fly and Art flew this machine almost right up to his death in April of 1998.Art Seller would have appreciated the memorial fly-past held at Langley in his honour. There were other sides to this busy and capable man's life. He was a Shriner and a Life Member of the Canadian Museum of Flight. In later years, in complete contrast to his other activities, Art Seller constructed a magnificent doll's house filled with equally meticulously made furniture. He gave it to the Museum of Flight to be raffled for the Museum's benefit. The winner, finding himself more in need of cash, asked Art if he knew anyone who would buy this magnificent object. Art Seller bought it himself with the intention of again having it raffled for the benefit of the museum. |
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Art Seller clearly made his mark on B.C.'s aviation history. As pilot and businessman he was very much a product of the immediate postwar free-wheeling years. That he succeeded where so many failed owed something to luck but far more to his capability, judgement and vision, not to ignore his integrity and character. Perhaps a more important epitaph comes from Percy Lotzer: "I have never met anyone who did not like Art Seller. He would get along with anybody". |
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