New condition, never opened coat patch. First Aeroplane Flight in Canada - 23 February 1909 - Baddeck - Victoria County, Nova Scotia. On this day, members of the Aerial Experiment Association accomplished the first manned airplane flight in Canada, by flying the Silver Dart over the Bras d'Or Lake, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The A.E.A. was officially formed in October 1907 on Mrs. Mabel Bell's suggestion, and she contributed money to pay for most of the expenses. It was headed by her husband, Alexander Graham Bell himself and had as its members, four young men eager to make their mark during the heady days of early flight: F.W. (Casey) Baldwin, the first Canadian and first British subject to pilot a public flight (in Hammondsport, New York); Glenn H. Curtiss, a motorcycle manufacturer who would later be awarded the Scientific American Trophy for the first official one-kilometre flight in the Western hemisphere and became world-renowned as an airplane manufacturer; Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, an official observer from the U.S. government; and J.A.D. McCurdy. The famed flight, piloted by Mr. McCurdy from the ice-covered Bras D'Or Lake in Baddeck on February 23, 1909 brought the nation into the Age of Flight. The coat patch is multi colored and measures about 3" in diameter.