Warbird Information Exchange

After leaving the RCAF Memorial Museum I headed north from Trenton to visit the Memorial Military Museum in Campbellford…

This is a small museum with some airframe on outside display. Recent news from the museum is that nine CT-114 Tutors were recently acquired from the Canadian Armed Forces. Owner, Harold Carlaw, has one of them on display, s/n 114180. The other 8 are at the facility of his son, David Carlaw. Apparently a new museum is being constructed and the other eight airframes will be on display there in Snowbirds markings. In addition Carlaw obtained another Tutor cockpit section, s/n 114063, from a scrap yard and it is displayed outdoors as well. I took a number of walk around photos of the Canso hulk, and held the camera inside the fuselage through a few different openings to get some interior shots. You can find all of the photos in this album…
http://community.webshots.com/album/551525833QDBloh

I also saw lots of “interesting junk” laying around. Tucked away in the weeds and trees on the other side of the Sea Bee was a badly hacked up cockpit section of something. I have no clue what it is. Can you tell me? Here are some direct links to the photos…
http://community.webshots.com/photo/551 ... 2405zGZUoW
http://community.webshots.com/photo/551 ... 2405qgBfSh

From Cambellford I traveled to the Markham Airport to visit the Canadian Air, Land and Sea Museum…

Honestly only the air portion of the museum is represented here, and for that matter the museum building has never been open when I have been there. Odd? Yes. However, the collection of airframes on display out side is rather interesting, and are all jets most of which once served in the Canadian Forces. There are also a number of CF-5/CF-116 airframes in a storage yard. Further up the hill on the active portion of the airfield there are some other interesting airframe parked. There is no admittance to the general public, but a gentlemen working at the airport gave me a very brief tour of the flight line and I was able to snap some pictures of the collection. I am not sure I have ever seen so many F-104s (my favorite century series) in one place so I was quite pleased. You can find the pictures in this album…
http://community.webshots.com/album/416680669fQHtTd

The road trip is “To Be Continued”. Look for more photo albums in the upcoming days starting with the Toronto Aerospace Museum and the Canadian Warplane Heritage.

Regards,

Mike

P.S. As always you can find a list of recent updates to my website and photo albums at…
www.AerialVisuals.ca/News.html

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Mike R. Henniger
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Looks like a treasure for someone restoring a fire bomber back to stock!

That is what I thought, but I doubt he will ever let it go. He sold a Yale once thinking he could find another easily. No dice.

Mike

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Mike R. Henniger
Aviation Enthusiast & Photographer
http://www.AerialVisuals.ca
http://www.facebook.com/AerialVisuals

Do you want to find locations of displayed, stored or active aircraft? Then start with the The Locator.
Do you want to find or contribute to the documented history of an aircraft? If so then start with the Airframes Database.

Mike
The canopy frame looks like a de H. Vampire T11 cockpit & in the 2nd pic. it looks like the remains of a plywood skin on the side of the cockpit so again Vampire

EDIT
On second thoughts the vampire has a 1 piece flat front screen , so probably not Vampire !

Hi Mike,

Do you have up to date listing of the airframes at the Military Museum in Campbellford..looks like a few more have arrived since I last visited in 2001.

Andrew

Looks like it may be an Anson Mk.V cockpit to me.

August

Wow, tks Mike

Look s like well worth the trip.
Do you know the story behind the replica nose of Arrow 201 ?

Tks again

I think the Arrow was build for a play?

I think I photographed everything that was there, so the photo album really is the up-to-date listing you are looking for. Just check out the captions for each picture. I will eventually have inventory lists posted on my website, but that is a project for next winter.

Mike

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Do you want to find locations of displayed, stored or active aircraft? Then start with the The Locator.
Do you want to find or contribute to the documented history of an aircraft? If so then start with the Airframes Database.

Actually another authority on the subject indicates that it appears to be an Anson Mk I.

Mike

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Mike R. Henniger
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http://www.AerialVisuals.ca
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Do you want to find locations of displayed, stored or active aircraft? Then start with the The Locator.
Do you want to find or contribute to the documented history of an aircraft? If so then start with the Airframes Database.

No I don't. Andrew indicates it was built for a play. If anyone knows for sure please post here.

Mike

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Mike R. Henniger
Aviation Enthusiast & Photographer
http://www.AerialVisuals.ca
http://www.facebook.com/AerialVisuals

Do you want to find locations of displayed, stored or active aircraft? Then start with the The Locator.
Do you want to find or contribute to the documented history of an aircraft? If so then start with the Airframes Database.