Visit to 1945 PBY-5A Canso RCAF 11007 Crash Site, Tofino, BC

[Mike Berry]

Excellent pictures & thanks for sharing your adventure.

Mike

Last edited by Mike Berry on Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[makin' boost]

Thanks for posting the photos. On photo #9, are these some type of bomb or depth charge rack ?

[donp]

Very interesting pictures. On a whim I checked my fathers log book and found he flew this plane 11077 on Jan 28, 1945 out of Reykjavik, Iceland with 162 SQUADRON RCAF on anti U Boat patrol. It was in this plane he and his crew crossed the Arctic Circle and became "Bluenosers" . He retired to Victoria but never knew this plane was so close by.

[David Legg]

Very interesting pictures. On a whim I checked my fathers log book and found he flew this plane 11077 on Jan 28, 1945 out of Reykjavik, Iceland with 162 SQUADRON RCAF on anti U Boat patrol. It was in this plane he and his crew crossed the Arctic Circle and became "Bluenosers" . He retired to Victoria but never knew this plane was so close by.

Sorry to disappoint you but I think you have mis-read the Canso's serial. The wreck at Tofino is 11007 as per the topic header and it never served with 162 (BR) Sqn. Your father's aircraft, as you say above, was 11077 and that did serve with 162'.

[daveymac82c]

I'm not sure if you guys saw my other thread on the video I shot for an application video to be a TV Show host about searching out old crash sites across Canada.

Anyways, the below youtube video is my application and it is where I visited RCAF 11007 in the pouring rain. There will be some odd bits to the video as it was originally going to be a combined application with a friend who was doing his part about a Peacemaker that went down in Newfoundland.

Without further Ado, there's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOCSk9MPwU

Peace,

David M