ATLANTIC CANADA AVIATION MUSEUM - HALIFAX

Photos © R.Leeuw

 

McDonnell F-101B (CF-101B) Voodoo, 101043

Not bad looking for a 'homebuilt'!

 

From fabric-covered wings to hypersonic ones!
From the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) Silver Dart to the Canadair CF-104 (serial 104783)

The Silver Dart (or Aerodrome #4) was a derivative of an early aircraft built by a Canadian/U.S. team, which after many successful flights in Hammondsport, New York, earlier in 1909, was dismantled and shipped to Baddeck, Nova Scotia. It was flown off the ice of Baddeck Bay, a sub-basin of Bras d'Or Lake, on 23 February 1909, making it the first controlled powered flight in Canada. The aircraft was piloted by one of its designers, John McCurdy. The original Silver Dart was designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Association, formed under the guidance of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. When the Silver Dart lifted off on 23 February 1909, it flew only half a mile, at an elevation from three to nine meters, and a speed of roughly 65 kilometres per hour (40 mph). The aircraft was the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to fly in Canada. The Silver Dart had great difficulty taking off. On its fifth flight on 2 August 1909, McCurdy wrecked the craft when one wheel struck a rise in the ground while landing. The Silver Dart never flew again. [Wikipedia]

 

Rotorway Executive C-GLYE (c/n RB1992)

'CF-CAF' is Bell 47J-2 c/n 1827, former CF-PQZ

Bell 206B Jet Ranger C-FDOI (c/n 980)

Front fuselage mock up of BAe 146-200

 

The history of aviation in Nova Scotia shows great variation!

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I'd never heard of the Keystone Puffer; below history tells the obscure details

The new hangar could do with an extension, it is very crowded...
'C-FBIL' is a Pitts S-1C Special (Ogden's book does not provide the original tailnumber nor the msn)

 
This Lockheed 1329 Jetstar 6, C-FDTF, is a fine specimen with a very nice 'V.I.P interior'

CF-RZU was a problem for me to identify, but Anson Chappell helped me out: "C-FRZU is a Piper Tomahawk, used extensively in the Maritimes for flight training."

C-IBEO is an Ultralight Flight Mirage (c/n TC2515)

The huge wing of Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck, 18747, dwarfs the Pitts Special C-FBIL and, what looks,
like a V-1 Flying Bomb from World War II.

Scheibe L-Spatz 55 C-GBBI (c/n 530, ex/ D-7047)

 

 

On loan from Toronto's Canada Air & Space Museum (CASM):
North American NA-81 Harvard II, 3840 (81-4107)

The Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone was one of the most powerful radial aircraft engines produced in the United States. It was a twin row, supercharged, air-cooled, radial engine with 18 cylinders. Power ranged from 2,200 to over 3,700 hp (1,640 to 2,760 kW), depending on the model. First developed prior to World War II, the R-3350's design required a long time to mature before finally being used to power the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. After the war, the engine had matured sufficiently to become a major civilian airliner design, notably in its Turbo-Compound forms. Wikipedia, more...

 

Cessna 305C Bird Dog (L-19E), 119720

In the background sits restoration project Consolidatd 28-5A Catalina (PBY-5A), CF-HFL (c/n is 520: it is
often quoted as s/n 110 -also officially-, but that is merely a line number).
During the 1990s it had been reported 'for restoration'and was up for painting in Labrador Airways colours in 2002; still long ways to go, obviously a long term project!
Plane Savers E146 (May 2019) on YouTube has details of it inside and out, check it out!

The Catalina / Canso was recovered from a crash site
You may want to see a photo by Ron Mak, while this derelict Canso was in transit at Goose Bay!

Front fuselage of a Canadair CL-28-1 Argus 1 (CP-107), unidentified

An information sheet in the museum showed 6 'Argus Survivors' 10715, at Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, MAN. (MY REPORT 2007) 10717, at Greenwood Military Aviation Museum, Nova Scotia (MY REPORT 2011) 10718, Comox Ar Force Museum, Comox, BC 10732, RCAF Memorial Museum, Trenton, ONT. 10739, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (PEI) 10742, National Aviation Museum, Ottawa, ONT. (MY REPORT 2009)

 

Impressive warbird restoration: Grumman G-40 Avenger (TBM-3E) CF-ZYC (c/n 3669, ex/ Bu53607, N8398H); restored using parts from c/n 2552 Bu85733, N6824C, C-GLEK and c/n 4194 Bu91289, N7833C, C-GFPN.

The identities above were taken from Ogden's Air-Britain book: C-GFPL (Tanker 24) was not listed. C-GFPL is fake? Yes! Aad van der Voet has this to say: "Avenger Tanker 24 C-GFPL is indeed wearing fake markings. It is actually c/n 3669 ex CF-ZYC (Tanker 20), as the Ogden book says. This aircraft crashed on take-off from Juniper (NB) on 20May1975, and the wreck was abandoned there. It was salvaged from the accident site 10Jan97 by the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum and then transported to the Forest Protection Ltd. facility at Frederiction (NB) a few months later for restoration, using some parts from C-FBEF c/n 3140, C-GFPN c/n 4194 and C-GLEK c/n 2552. After restoration it was painted to represent Tanker 24 C-GFPL in Aug2005 (when it was still at Fredericton). It was finally delivered to the museum a month later and placed on display."

 

Grumman G-103 Tracker (CP-121), 12176 (c/n DHC-75)

 

Canadair CL-13A Sabre 5 (North American F-86E), 23355; this former gateguard at the now closed base at Chatham has been painted in the colours of Canada's 'Golden Hawks' aerobatic team.

Canadair CF-116A (CF-5A), 116748

Canadair CL-30 Silver Star 3 (CT-133), 133174

 

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