With a 45-year career that netted him over 1000 hours of flying, George Stewart still has an awesome passion for planes. Since the age of 8, young George was obsessed with flying, building models and reading Flying Aces Magazine. He became enamored with the deHaviland Mosquito and dreamed of the day he would become a Mosquito pilot. When his dream eventually came true, George mostly ran night intruder sorties, some special duty escorts and spoof raids for the 23 Squadron RAF. He had an illustrious career as a pilot and then as an instructor, spending a significant amount of time training Chinese pilots in China. In this capacity, George had been a flying instructor on the Mosquito Fighter-Bombers which the Chinese Nationalists had purchased from Canada in their civil war against the Communists led by Mao Tse-Tung. The Nationalists lost the war and fled to what is today Taiwan.
George retired in 1987. In March 2003, George and his wife Marion were invited to Taiwan as guests of the Republic of China Air Force in commemoration of the Mosquito flying he did with the Chinese Air Force in 1948.
George is now enjoying his ZESTful years at The Village at St. Elizabeth Mills.
