success he enjoyed during his earlier days. He played throughout Canada and parts of the United States, playing for the Winnipeg Maroons of the Central Hockey League, the Moose Jaw Warriors and Regina Capitals of the Pro Hockey League, and St. Paul and Winnipeg teams for the American Hockey Association. Although Johannesson had left as a player in 1924, he did spend one season (1933–1934) as the head coach of the Winnipeg Falcons. Aviation After his return to Canada, Johannesson worked as a flying instructor and later, as airport manager. In 1927, Winnipeg hired him as the city’s first Airport Manager. Under his supervision, following the construction of large hangar facilities by Canadian Airways Limited in 1931, Winnipeg’s Stevenson Field grew from a small airstrip to one of western Canada’s busiest air centres. From 1929 to 1932, Johannesson was a charter member, chief flying instructor and manager at the Winnipeg Flying Club. One of his pupils was John A. Kent, a future Battle of Britain fighter pilot and test pilot. Another of his students was frontiersman Tom Lamb, who had purchased a Stinson Reliant as well as flying lessons from Johannesson who was the Stinson Aircraft dealer for western Canada. Lamb was later to form Lamb Air, the first northern Manitoba-based air carrier. During his tenure, Johannesson earned the highest flight trainer rating in Canada, one of only six instructors with that rating. From 1932, in operating the Johannesson Flying Service, he was based in Winnipeg at both the Brandon Avenue Aerodrome and Stevenson Aerodrome. His operation transported approximately 150 passengers each year into central Manitoba with his two-seater de Havilland Cirrus Moth biplane, as well as offering flight instruction. Second World War During the Second World War, Johannesson entered politics, seeking election unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate in the 1942 Winnipeg North by-election. His main wartime activities centred on training pilots. While operating the Johannesson Flying Service, he taught Icelandic students to fly so they could then enlist in the RCAF. By war's end, when Johannesson wound up his career as a flight instructor, he had taught 231 pilots to fly. Postwar After the war, Johannesson established a flying service at Flin Flon, Manitoba. In 1947, he purchased a half-mile strip of land along the Red River in the Rural Municipality of West St. Paul with the intention of building an airstrip and floatplane facility. In 1951, Johannesson moved