A military funeral for Canadian Forces pilot Capt. Thomas McQueen is set for this morning in Hamilton at 11 a.m. ET.
The ceremony will be held at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at John. C Munro Airport. The public is welcome to attend.
Museum CEO Dave Rohrer said McQueen was active at the museum and well known in the community.
McQueen, a native of nearby Fisherville, was killed in last Monday’s fatal fighter jet crash near Cold Lake, Alta.
The service for the 10-year veteran is expected to last an hour and a half. Four CF-18 Hornets from 3 Wing Bagotville, Que., will perform a flyby during the service.
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“I think it will be quite a moving ceremony and salute to a talented young man,” Rohrer said.
McQueen’s body will then travel down Highway 401 to connect with the Highway of Heroes, before arriving at the National Military Cemetery at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa.
Rohrer told CBC News that Ontario Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, MP Diane Finley and members of the Canadian Air Force will be in attendance.
The 29-year-old was born and grew up in Fisherville, Ont., a small hamlet outside Hamilton, but lived in Cold Lake, Alta., three hours north of Edmonton with his fiance. A memorial for McQueen was held last weekend in Fishervillle, Ont. where his parents still live.
Canadian flags will be at half-mast Wednesday throughout the city for the military funeral.
A military funeral for Capt. Thomas McQueen, the 10-year veteran killed in a training crash while flying his CF-18 Hornet, is set for Wednesday in Hamilton. (Aaron McQueen/Twitter)
This memorial is at the end of the McQueen family driveway in the rural hamlet of Fisherville where the CF-18 pilot grew up. (Adam Carter/CBC)