Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum is a major Canadian aviation museum. It is located at the John C. Munro International Airport on the outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario.

The museum is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to acquire, document, preserve and maintain a complete collection of aircraft that were flown by Canadians and the Canadian military services from the beginning of the Second World War to the present.

A large collection of military aircraft that have played a major role in the Canadian military are displayed, including one of two airworthy Avro Lancasters and a Supermarine Spitfire. The museum is also in the process of restoring lesser known but historically significant aircraft, including a Westland Lysander and a Bristol Bolingbroke (a version of the Bristol Blenheim).

The Avro Lancaster flown out of the museum, one of only two airworthy Lancasters in the world, is known as the Mynarski Memorial Lancaster in honour of Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski, and is painted in the markings of his aircraft.

Prince Charles, as a member of the Canadian Royal Family, is the royal patron of the museum.

List of aircraft

A partial list of aircraft at the museum (note that some of these include aircraft undergoing restoration):

Fighter aircraft

*Supermarine Spitfire MK XVI
*Hawker Hurricane (Full sized model of original aircraft lost in a hangar fire)

Trainers/transports

*Avro Anson V
*Beech D18S Expeditor
*Cessna T50 Crane
*Douglas DC-3 Dakota
*Grumman G-44A Widgeon

Jet fighters

*Canadair CF-104 Starfighter
*Lockheed T-33 Silver Star
*De Havilland Vampire
*Lockheed CF-104D Starfighter
*McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo
*Canadair CF-5 Freedom Fighter
*Avro CF-100 Canuck

Bombers

* Avro Lancaster
* Bristol Bolingbroke
* North American B-25J-35NC Mitchell "45-8883"
* Consolidated PBY 5A Canso

Anti-submarine

*Grumman CSF-2 Tracker

Observation

*Fairchild F-24R Argus

Army co-operation

*Westland Lysander III
*Auster Beagle

Single engine trainers

*Boeing Stearman PT-17 Kaydet
*de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk
*de Havilland 82C Tiger Moth
*Fairchild PT-26B Cornell
*Fleet Finch
*Fleet 21K
*Fleet 60K Fort
*North American Harvard 4
*North American NA-64 Yale

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References

ee also

* List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage

External links

* [http://www.warplane.com/index.html Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum]
* [http://www.flyhi.ca/index.shtml Hamilton International Airport website]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.168716,-79.927940&spn=0.036907,0.054975&t=k&hl=en Satellite picture]