mrp wrote:
The Canso is not painted in original markings, the colour scheme was painted in the early sixties when it was tranfered to the museum from the RCAF. Off the top of my head , without any reference material, I think it flew with 103 Rescue out of Grenwood NS.
It is painted to represent Hornell's (VC winner) aircraft.
You are correct, thanks for pointing that out. I don't know the complete history of the aviation museum at the former CFB Rockcliffe, but I suspect this Canso spent some time outside after it was painted in the colours you mention. It is as rough looking in person as the pictures show.
mrp wrote:
The new hanger is meant to be for deep storage !!
Yep. Finally a roof over the entire collection!
mrp wrote:
As an interesting aside, the Canada Aviation Museum has had a terrible time with the tires of most of the aircraft. The biggest problem being, is that the preservation of tires by filling them with an expanding foam, makes them unuseable when you actually have to move them. I know that they have been changing and obtaining servicable tires to get the aircraft moved for the last year.
Yes it does. There has been much new rubber installed. Also the last time I checked there were a pair of new main tires for the Lanc in the storage hanger. The last time I checked the Lanc was supposed to be moved so it could have some paint corrections applied in the storage hanger before the aircraft were moved into the storage hanger. Clearly this didn't happen. I am guessing they will just store the Lanc tires for now.
mrp wrote:
This certainly diverts the attention from actually restoring anything.
It has been my personnal criticism that the CAvM hasn't been terribly active in restorations in past. I think the last one was the Me-163 for display to replace the one that went to the USAF Museum. That was about 2 years ago now. Seeing as how aircraft have spent decades outside without attention, you can't really say the museums efforts have been diverted from restoration, since they really haven't had a big push in this area for a while. However, the museum leadership and the staff do not deserve the full blow of this criticism since the CAvM is just another federal government institution and heavily depends on funding from this source. If Canada doesn't provide the funding what do you expect to happen to the collection?
The storage hanger is at least a step in the right direction. Hopefully PNS can help the museum to keep moving in that direction, and the museum will be provided with the funding to build the much needed large restoration hanger.
Rant off... Sorry about that, but that is one of my very few sensitive subjects and it doesn't take much to get me going. Maybe I should join Rob Rohr in therapy!
Mike
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