USA Northeast & Canada 2011Vintage transports and warbirds
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Taking my chances on the autumn weather, I visited parts of the US Northeast and crossed the border into Canada for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Showing somewhat lesser dedication this year for tracking aviation history, in part due to the fact there are much more vintage 'dead planes' then live planes' in this part of the world, I did find some classic aircraft on my route and some were every much 'alive'!. Please enjoy! |
After a visit to the White Mountains, for Railfan Day at North Conway(NH), we were heading north and I while drove past a lake, I noticed this bushplane 'in hiding': Cessna 170B N3576D (c/n 27119), manufactured in 1956, registered since 17Aug98 to George B. Courtney, Center Harbor,NH. |
The Cessna 195 N145V (c/n 7135) was built in 1948 and has been registered for Currier's Flying Service since 1986.
CURRIER'S FLYING SERVICE (YOU FIND THEM ON FACEBOOK TOO!) |
We had set foot (or actually driven the car from the ferry) at Digby, Nova Scotia and found ourselves driving to Halifax, when I noticed the sign for Greenwood and remembered from Bob Ogden's book on aviation museums that such an institution existed there. |
Shearwater Aviation Museum is near Halifax, about 5 kms south east of Dartmouth. On 18Aug1918 (!) the United States Navy (!) set up a flying boat station at Baker's Point in Dartmouth; this area is part of the current base. A report of my visit can be found HERE.. |
Next we visited the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, which is located quite a bit outside Halifax, on the international airport.
See MY REPORT of my visit to the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum (Halifax,NS) |
McDonnell F-101B-90-MC Voodoo (USAF batch 57-343/346), 57-346 to Canadian Armed Forces as 101028 in 1970/71. To instructional airframe as 831B 13Aug1984. Struck off Charge (SOC) 10Apr92.
The aircraft sits alongside the New Brunswick Railway Museum, which is a museum dedicated to the guided ground transportation of New Brunswick and operated by a group of dedicated volunteers. The museum opened in 1993 and is visible from the main road, Route 114, through Hillsborough. Don't know their relation to this preserved aircraft or whether other parties are involved, it is the only aircraft on site here. We soon crossed the border into the United States again. |
Outide Bar Harbor we noticed the sign for 'flightseeing' in a biplane and I decided to have a look. The biplane was in maintenance but instead I 'found' this SNJ-5 (N3261G) warbird! Unfortunately my budget was running low and my itinerary for the day did not allow the break. How regrettable! By googling I found it may have been owned by Robert L. Chisholm of Memphis,TN, possibly for the period 1965 - 2006. More information welcomed (please quote the url in your email). |
Deperdussin (1913, replica) The Deperdussin Monocoque was an early aircraft built in 1912 by the Société Pour les Appareils Deperdussin, commonly abbreviated "SPAD". Designed as a racing aircraft, it was a single-seated monoplane with a streamlined shape. See MY REPORT on Owl's Head Transportation Museum, Rockport,ME |
![]() Updated my 2009 Lufthansa Starliner page with photos from this visit on Sep. 29th; I was awaiting a go-ahead from Lufthansa but our communications seems to have broken down, so after 5 months I decided to publish my report anyway... |
The next day we enjoyed an upgrade by Delta Airlines, to business class, and flew from Boston home in style. Thank you Delta!![]() |
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