RCAF museum to get Hudson

[helinut]

Today I saw the fuselage of Lockheed Hudson Mk VI FK 466 ,on a flatbed trailer at CFB Windsor Park in Halifax, asking around I found out that it is headed to the Museum in Trenton Ontario.This fuselage was with the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum for over 22 years.

[Barrie MacLeod]

The Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum Hudson in store at the museum on 12 July 2010.

[peter]

Interesting exhibit for Trenton! I am sure the hard working restoration team will haver her looking great in a couple of years time!

[helinut]

To bad the people at acam could see fit to keep it here, since this is the area it served during the war as a rescue aircraft with a lifeboat mounted below it .Since it was one of there more rarer aircraft.

[JBoyle]

I'm always been a bit surprised there aren't more Hudsons/Venturas/Harpoons preserved or flown as warbirds.

Sadly, I'm just old enough to remember the latter littering up airfields in the 70s after they were withdrawn from firefighting.

[jdvoss]

Hurray !! Another Hudson found and on its way for eventual restoration and display. Correct me if I'm wrong but I am not aware of any Hudsons in the USA whatsoever. It would be so great to see one on display at either NMUSAF or more appropriatly Pensacola in VP-82 squadron markings.

[planenutti]

I don't know of any Hudsons in the States either. Then again, I don't think there are any flying Venturas either.

[GARY HILTON]

The plane in the photo looks to be a Ventura...too big to be a Huddie....but cool just the same.

[davem]

The plane in the photo looks to be a Ventura...too big to be a Huddie....but cool just the same.

Pretty sure it's a Hudson, door and turret are too far aft for a Ventura and the Ventura did not have that many windows down the side....

[GARY HILTON]

Davem,
You are more than likely correct...I was actually thinking more along the lines of a Lodestar, or a Vent that was modified to Howard standards...just didn't think the Huddie was that big...The one thing that really knocks my theory, is the cockpit window above the pilot...that makes me think it's a Hudson...Wish the nose section was still on the bird...G

[jdvoss]

Yes, it is indeed a Lockheed Hudson. As stated above the series of closely spaced windows gives it away. I've attached my photo of a RAAF Hudson fuselage on a trailer at Moorrabin Airport near Melbourne Australia in 1992. Note faded but original camoflauge markings. The Lockeed Lodestar also had a series of windows along the fuselage length but with greater spacing than that of the Hudson.

[JDK]

It is a (very rare) Hudson.

More answers later.

[GARY HILTON]

Man, that just kills me to see the wings cut like that....I sure hope that I don't have to end up doing that to my Lodestar...Time will have the answer to that...

[helinut]

Yes it is a very rare Hudson being a MKVI, which means it had PW 1930S,Never had a turet and was based out of St John,s NFLD during the war, and flew with NO1composite sqn, it had reportedly was invoilved in a search for a down B-24,since it was eqiuped with an Ulfa Fox MK1 lifeboat, and was always in bare metal finish.the museum also has a ventura wing that was recovered else where for use in the restoration.

[Steve Nelson]

How much of the airframe do they have..enough to make a complete aircraft? Considering what the museum did with the Halifax, I'm sure they can turn the Hudson carcass into a stunner!

SN