Curtiss HS (HS-2L)
Aircraft registration is G-CAOS, was operated by Canada's Provincial Air Service of Lands & Forests
This aircraft was in use for forest fire patrol duty from 1925. On 10th July 1927, crew was engaged in a survey flight in the region of Kingston. En route, engine failed and pilot lost control of the seaplane that crashed in Long Lake, north of Kingston. While both occupants were injured, aircraft was destroyed.
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Source : Retrieved via Google from CBHC archives, but I can't find a direct link for it.
Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck (Mk 4A)
Aircraft registration is HG-211, RCAF id 18211
31st May 1954 delivered to RCAF, assigned to 428 Squadron, struck off charge in July 1960.
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1. Forgotten Jets, a Warbirds Resource Group site.
Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" (JN-4 Canuck)
Aircraft serial no is C227, USAAS #39158
This aircraft was manufactured between 1917 & 1918. It is now restored and displayed at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum
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1. Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
2. Wikipedia
Hawker Hurricane
Aircraft serial no is P3080 (identifier YO-C), operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
First batch of 500 Mk. I Hurricanes Built by Gloster Aircraft Company Limited, Brockworth, Gloucestershire, to Contract No. 962371/38/C.23a. Aircraft were powered by Rolls-Royce Merlin III engines. Aircraft deliveries commenced in November, 1939 and were completed by April 1940.
On 15th September 1940, this aircraft saw combat against Messerschmitt Bf-109s. Pilot A D Nesbitt shot one down, but was also shot though he managed to bail out. The aircraft was damaged and written off.
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1. Hawker Hurricane site maintained by Dr. Colin James Pratt-Hooson.
Source : Waymarking.com. This is a full-size mockup of the actual aircraft.
Source : BBM site. This is an impression of Nesbitt's bale-out on 15th September 1940 by Douglas A Fales.
de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
Aircraft serial no 4324, construction no DHC654, operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
Fate unknown
Info from De Havilland aircraft production list.
Avro Canada C102 Jetliner
Aircraft serial no is CF-EJD-X
Jet-powered airliner prototype designed and built by Avro Canada in 1949. It first flew on 10th August 1949. This was the first Canadian jet and the first jet aircraft in North America. Carried the world's first airmail by jet on 18th April 1950.
Only one aircraft was built, because the programme was cancelled in favour of the Avro Canada CF-100. This aircraft was cut up in Dec 1956, with the nose and cockpit section on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
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1. Canada Aviation and Space Museum
2. Wikipedia
Fairchild FC-2 (FC-2W)
Aircraft serial no is G-CAIP. Construction no 48, cert of registration recd on 21-Nov-1927, operated by Canadian Transcontinental AW Ltd.
In December 1927, Canadian Transcontinental Airways (CTA) from Quebec, Canada was awarded a contract to deliver mail to the "North Shore" to replace delivery by dogsleds in winter when shipping is interrupted by ice. The operations were based at Lac Ste-Agnes near La Malbaie, Quebec, where the railroad terminal was located. This aircraft - Fairchild FC-2W1 - was used to deliver mail to 28 small villages along the coast.
The aircraft was destroyed by fire on 5th April 1929 at St Felicien, Ontario.
Info from Golden Years of Aviation page for civil aircraft in Canada.
Source : Copyrighted photo from 1000aircraftphotos - Ron Dupas collection.
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver
Aircraft serial no is CF-FHB. Construction no 1 - this is the first ever Beaver.
This was the first ever Beaver produced. It took its maiden flight on 16-Aug-1947 as CF-FHB-X at Downsview, Ontario, piloted by Russ Bannock. The FHB stands for the initials of its designer Frederick Howard Buller. Since August 1980, this aircraft has been at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
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1. Canada Aviation and Space Museum
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1. Jetphotos
2. Airliners
Source : One of the first flights of this aircraft, on 16th Aug 1947, from Neil Aird's DHC-2 site.
Source : Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Noorduyn Norseman (Norseman V)
Aircraft serial no is CF-SAM. Constructed in 1946.
This aircraft was operated by the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service, the first non-military, government-operated air ambulance service in the world. CF-SAM flew its first patient mission on October 4, 1946. Later, it was also modified with a belly exit to allow the dropping of the Saskatchewan Smoke Jumpers when on floats. It was used for fire-fighting services for nearly 25 years. The Western Development Museum purchased it in 1976, and had it restored and painted in the original Air Ambulance gold & green colours. It is on display at the museum.
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2. Aerial Visuals Airframe Dossier
3. Noorduyn Norseman site, maintained by Noorduyn Aviation
2. Aviation Museums aggregator site
Fokker Super Universal
Aircraft serial no is G-CASK.
This Fokker Super Universal was built around August 1928, and was originally owned by Western Canada Airways. On 10th Dec 1928 this aircraft was used to inaugurate the first Prairie Mail Service in Canada. It was then used for exploratory activities, including a 9000-mile return trip by pilot "Punch" Dickins. From Oct 1929 to Sep 1930, this aircraft was beached on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, exposed except for an ordinary engine cover on her nose. Remarkably, when it was restarted, it flew perfectly well.
This historic aircraft caught fire on 31st Mar 1933 while refuelling, when the hose slid and the fuel caught fire destroying the aircraft completely.
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1. Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, article "G-CASK and Lady Luck"
2. Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, article "Punch Dickins–First Flight Over the Barren Lands"
de Havilland Mosquito
Hairless Joe (TH*Z, HR147) was flown by Russell Bannock and Bob Bruce of 418 "City of Edmonton" Squadron, RCAF. Another aircraft repainted in the same markings as this aircraft is on display at the Alberta Aviation Museum in Canada.
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de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (CSR-123)
Serial no 3743, CF-WJB / N435B, construction no 183.
This is likely to be CF-WJB, delivered to the RCAF on 20th Dec 1956 and initially assigned to the 115 Air Transport Unit, which was a UN support unit based in Egypt. Aircraft was disposed to private entity in 1965, and as of 2013 was still reported to be in flying condition after various modifications.
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2. Canadian Military Aircraft listing by serial numbers
Canadair CP-107 Argus (Mk 2)
Aircraft serial no 725, operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force between 1951 & 1981.
Sopwith Dolphin
Aircraft serial no is E-4764.
Was operated by Squadron 1 of the Canadian Air Force between between 1918 & 1920.
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1. 1000aircraftphotos - Gary L Smith collection
Source : Copyrighted photo from 1000aircraftphotos
Armstrong Whitworth Siskin (Siskin IIIA)
Serial no 59, later renumbered to 305. Construction no. AW 397
First flew in 1932, was originally no 59 but was later renumbered to 305. Was struck off in Jan 1939 after a damage in caused in July 1938. Eventual fate unknown.
Info from Canadian Military Aircraft listing by serial numbers
Photo (not clear) available at this site.
Northrop Delta (Mk. II)
Aircraft serial no is 673, construction no CV 183.
This aircraft was unfortunately the first Canadian casualty of WW2, on 14th September 1939, resulting in the loss of the pilot and his mechanic. The wreckage however was not discovered until 1958, since the crash had occurred in a remote part of the Canadian wilderness.
There is a detailed account of the tragic flight, with photos of the aircraft and the mangled remains of the wreckage on the Vintage Wings site.
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1. Vintage Wings - Lost in the Wilderness
Vickers Wellington
Aircraft serial no W-5537, identifier "LQ-O"
Was part of 405 Squadron, RCAF. Went missing around July 1941 while on a mission to Brest in France, believed lost at sea but not much info available to confirm.
Avro Anson
Aircraft serial no 7064, served in the RCAF.
Taken around Oct 1941. Scrapped in July 1943, and used for spares.
Bristol M.1
Aircraft serial no is C4988.
On 12th Dec 1918, Dagoberto Godoy of Chile took off from an airfield in El Bosque, Chile and landed near Mendoza, Argentina, and became the first person to fly over the Andes. Though the flight only lasted about 90 mins at a maximum altitude of 6300 metres, it was accomplished in an open cockpit without heating or oxygen. Dagoy's feat inspired others, and in the next year other records were broken by other aviators. The aircraft was not preserved, and its whereabouts are not known.
The photo here is of a replica.
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1. Wikipedia
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