‘A lot of twists and turns’: Halifax pilot draws Blue Jays logo in the sky

A Halifax pilot and longtime Blue Jays fan has taken his support for Canada’s baseball team to new heights — literally — tracing the team’s logo through the skies over Nova Scotia.

“I wanted to cheer on the Blue Jays, I wanted to cheer the fans, I wanted to do it for myself,” said Dimitri Neonakis.

The two-and-a-half-hour trip, Neonakis says, took about three hours to plan and map out before he took off from Halifax Stanfield International Airport at 11:27 a.m. local time Tuesday.

He began by outlining the maple leaf — the trickiest part, he says — before carefully tracing the bird in the team’s logo with his Cirrus SR22 aircraft. His route stretched roughly 570 kilometres, looping from Halifax to the town of Debert and back.

While still in the air, Neonakis says he got a message from someone who had spotted his work on a flight-tracking website.

“I said, ‘I’m a big fan. Of course I did,” he said with a laugh.

The pilot of 27 years says this flight path has drawn more attention than most online, but it isn’t his first of its kind.

He says he has completed nearly 30 of these “sky drawings,” some in support of missing children or to honour people such as George Floyd, Terry Fox and Jennifer Casey, the Snowbirds member killed in a 2020 crash.

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Occasionally, like with the Jays, he takes to the air for fun — sketching hearts, holiday greetings or Father’s Day wishes.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 17, 2025.