This monument located outside of the Alberta Aviation Museum honours the Royal Canadian Air Force’s connection to Edmonton. In 2015 at the Aviation Heritage Memorial, the 700 Wing Air Force Association honoured 12 Canadian aviators who will had their names added to the memorial at a stone-laying ceremony.
The "Sic Itur" stones are engraved with the names of people who worked in aviation or were part of one or more of the three air services at the Blatchfield Field Airport. "Sic Itur" is Latin for "thus, go," used in the phrase "sic itur ad astra," or "thus, go to the stars," which dates back to the Roman poet Virgil and his work, the Aeneid. The RCAF adopted this phrase as their motto, and translate it alternatively as "such is the pathway to the stars."
