Greater Nashua
Aviation Museum to host presentation on Santa’s aerial lighthouse visits
LONDONDERRY — For nearly a century, Santa Clause has been leaving the reindeer at home and using various aircraft to visit families stationed at lighthouses and lifesaving stations along the New England coastline. Father Christmas started out in a floatplane and then eventually moved on to making deliveries by helicopters in 1978. Jeremy D'Entremont, founder of Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouses, will tell the story of this enduring aviation tradition on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire, 27 Navigator Rd. in Londonderry. The event is a part of the museum’s Exploring Aviation series. Admission is $10 per person and museum members are free. The Flying Santa program was inaugurated in 1929 by Capt. William Wincapaw of Maine, who was well known around the Penobscot Bay area as a skilled and adventurous pilot. He flew a variety of aircraft but was ...
