Welcome to Slattery's Field, one of Ottawa's earliest airfields,
and the site of the first inter-city flight in Canada by William C.
Robinson shown above receiving newspapers from B.A. MacNab editor
of the Montreal Daily Mail just before take off. This was also the
site of the first aircraft flights in Ottawa when Lee Hammond flew
a Silver Dart from here during the Central Canada Exhibition. Some
research done by geocacher Falach-Fead, aviation history buff,
indicates that the flights by Hammond may have been in a Baldwin
'Red Devil' biplane, not a 'Silver Dart'!
Take the year of Lee Hammond's flight, insert a decimal after
the first digit (in the form X.XXX) and add it to 22.075 to derive
the North minutes of the cache location (degrees remain N45).
Take the year of William C. Robinson's flight, insert a decimal
after the first digit (in the form Y.YYY) and add it to 38.390 to
derive the West minutes of the cache location (degrees remain
W075).
Signal reception may suffer due to a large nearby structure, but
you shouldn't have to look too hard for this cache. Good
Hunting!