Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Airfield with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Data
place	Ottawa , Canada Coordinates: 45 ° 27 '27.8 "  N , 75 ° 38' 34.5"  W.
Art	Aviation Museum
opening	1964
operator	Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation
Website	casmuseum.techno-science.ca

The Canada Aviation and Space Museum ( French Musée de l'aviation et de l'espace du Canada ) is Canada's national aviation museum in Ottawa at Ottawa-Rockcliffe Airfield .

organization

The museum is part of the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation , along with the Canada Agriculture Museum and the Canada Science and Technology Museum . The museum is a member of the Canadian Museums Association , the Canadian Heritage Information Network, and the Virtual Museum of Canada .

The museum should not be confused with the Canadian Air and Space Museum (the former Toronto Aerospace Museum ) at Toronto / Downsview Airport .

collection

The collection currently contains the 117 aircraft and 11 helicopters that are fundamentally related to Canadian aviation history.

image	Manufacturer / sample	Construction year	Mark	comment
	AEA Silver Dart	1958		Replica of the first aircraft that was used for a controlled powered flight in Canada.
	AEG G.IV	1918		The only surviving multi-engine German military aircraft from the First World War.
	Avro 504K	1918	G-CYCK G-CYFG	The Avro 504 was the standard training aircraft for the Canadian Air Force in the 1920s.
	Avro 683 Lancaster X	1945	KB 944 (RAF)	Built in Canada and flown by the RCAF.
	Avro Anson V	1945	12518 (RCAF)	Made in Canada.
	Avro Avian IVM	1930	CF-CDQ	"The race against death" took place in a machine of this type in 1928, a flight to transport medicines from Edmonton to Fort Vermilion for the treatment of diphtheria.
	Avro Canada C-102 jetliner	1949	CF-EJD-X	Unique piece, designed and built in Canada.
	Avro Canada CF-100 Mk.5D	1958	100757 (RCAF) 100785 (RCAF)	Designed and built in Canada.
	Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow 2	1959	25206 (RCAF)	Designed and built in Canada.
	Bell CH-135 Twin-Huey	1971	135114 (RCAF)	A helicopter with two shaft turbines from Pratt & Whitney Canada flown by the Canadian Air Force.
	Blériot XI	1911
	Boeing Vertol CH-113 Labrador	1963	113301 (RCAF)
	Borel-Morane monoplane	1911/1912
	Bristol Beaufighter TFX	1945	RD867 (RAF)	Acquired in exchange with the Royal Air Force Museum .
	Bristol Bolingbroke IVT	unknown	9892 (RCAF)	Made in Canada.
	Bristol F.2B fighter	1918	D-7889	One of only three original machines worldwide.
	Buzzman Buccaneer SX	1992		Ultralight flying boat built in Canada.
	Canadair C-54GM North Star 1 ST	1948	17515 (RCAF)	Made in Canada
	Canadair CF-116 (CF-5A)	1970	116763 (CF)	Northrop F-5 built under license in Canada.
	Canadair CL-84-1 Dynavert	1969	CX8402 (CAF)	Experimental aircraft, designed and built in Canada.
	Canadair CP-107 Argus 2	1960	10742 (CAF)	Designed and built in Canada.
	Canadair CT-114 Tutor	1963	114108 (CF)	Designed and built in Canada. The type is not only used in flight training in Canada, but also by the Snowbirds aerobatic team .
	Canadair Saber 6	1955 1956	23455 (RCAF) 23651 (RCAF)	Built in Canada, 23651 was part of the Canadian Golden Hawks aerobatic team .
	Canadair T-33AN Silver Star 3	1957	21574 (RCAF)	Made in Canada.
	Cessna Crane	1941	8676 (RCAF)	Over 600 machines of this type were procured for the Canadian Air Force.
	Consolidated Liberator GR VIII	1945	11130 (RCAF)
	Consolidated PBY-5A Canso A	1944	11087 (RCAF)	A type of flying boat known as the Catalina , built in Canada.
	Curtiss HS-2L La Vigilance	1918	G-CAAC	Flying boat from the First World War.
	Curtiss JN-4 Canuck	1918	C227 (RFC)	The Canadian Rockie Mountains were flown over the Canadian Rockies for the first time with an aircraft of this type, as well as other initial services. Made in Canada.
	Curtiss Kittyhawk I.	1942	1076 (RCAF)	This machine was originally built for the RAF, but was then adopted by the Royal Canadian Air Force .
	de Havilland Canada DHC-1B2 Chipmunk 2	1956	12070 (RCAF)	Designed and built in Canada.
	de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver	1947	CF-FHB	STOL aircraft designed and built in Canada.
	de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter	1960	9408 (RCAF)	STOL aircraft designed and built in Canada.
	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter	1964	CF-DHC-X	With an aircraft of this type, designed and built in Canada, and with a Canadian crew, aviation history was made with a rescue mission in the Arctic.
	de Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7	1975	C-GNBX	Designed and built in Canada.
	de Havilland DH. 60X Moth	1928	G-CAUA	The Canadian Air Force's standard training aircraft in the 1930s.
	de Havilland DH. 80A Puss Moth	1931	CF-PEI
	de Havilland DH.82C2 Menasco Moth	1941	4861 (RCAF)	Made in Canada.
	de Havilland DH.82C Tiger Moth	1941	CF-SMA	Made in Canada.
	de Havilland DH.83C Fox Moth	1947	CF-DJB	Built between the era of bush pilots and the dawn of passenger aviation in Canada.
	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B XX	1941	KB 336 (RAF)	Made in Canada
	de Havilland DH.100 Vampires I.	1945	TG372 (RAF)
	de Havilland DH.100 Vampires 3	1948	17074 (RCAF)
	Douglas DC-3	1942	C-FTDJ
	Fairchild 82A	1937	CF-AXL
	Fairchild PT-26B Cornell III	1942	10738 (RCAF)
	Fairey Battle IT	1940	R7384 (RAF)	Trainer version of a light bomber.
	Fairey Firefly FR.1	1945	DK 545
	Fairey Swordfish II	unknown, between 1936 and 1944	NS122 (RCN)
	Fleet 50K Freighter	1939	CF-BXP
	Fleet 80 Canuck	1946	CF-EBE
	Fokker D.VII	1918	10347/18
	Grumman CP-121 tracker	1960	12187 (CAF)	The only aircraft built in Canada that was procured for the Royal Canadian Navy .
	Hawker Hind	1937	L7180 (RAF)
	Hawker Hurricane XII	1942	5584 (RCAF)	The aircraft was the first to be produced in Canada, the manufacture of which was overseen by a female engineer ( Elsie MacGill ).
	Hawker Sea Fury FB.11	1948	TG 119 (RCN)	The last piston engine-powered fighter aircraft procured for the Royal Canadian Navy .
	Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier	1973	158966 (US Navy)
	Heinkel He 162A-1	1945	120086 ( Air Force )	Volksjäger (120086)
	Junkers JI	1918	586/18	The first all-metal aircraft in the world.
	Junkers W 34f / fi	1931	CF-ATF
	Lockheed F-104A starfighter	1957	12700 (RCAF)	The machine was used by the Canadian Air Forces mainly in Europe.
	Lockheed L-10A Electra	1937	CF-TCA	The machine was used as the first “modern” airliner in Canada.
	Lockheed L-1329 Jetstar 6	1961	C-FDTX
	Maurice Farman p.11 Shorthorn	1915-1916	VH-UBC (Australia)
	McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo	1959	101025 (CAF)
	McDonnell Douglas CF-188B (CF-18B)	1982	188901	Canadian version of the F / A-18 Hornet. Introduced into the Canadian Air Force as CF-188, but colloquially referred to as CF-18.
	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32	1968	CF-TLL	Longest aircraft in service with Air Canada (1966–2002).
	McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee	1953	126464 (RCN)	The only jet engine transmission procured for the Royal Canadian Navy , Jäger. Used u. a. on the Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure .
	McDowall monoplane	1915	without	Designed and built in Canada.
	Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4	1942	10132 ( Air Force )
	Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1a Comet	1945	191914 ( Air Force )	Captured in 1945 at JG 400 in Husum . A second Me 163 (191095) came for exhibition in the National Museum of the United States Air Force after the restoration, which documented massive sabotage during manufacture by slave labor .
	Nieuport 17	1961	B1566 (RFC)	Replica of the First World War a. a. machines flown by Canadian aviator aces Billy Bishop and Arthur Roy Brown .
	Noorduyn Norseman VI	1943	787 (RCAF)	Designed and built in Canada. The first Canadian aircraft that was also used by the US Air Force.
	North American Harvard 4	1952	20387 (RCAF)	Built in Canada and from 1940 to 1955 the training aircraft u. a. of the Canadian Air Force.
	North American P-51D Mustang IV	1945	9298 (RCAF)
	Rutan's quickie	1984	C-GGLC	Designed in Canada, a do-it-yourself aircraft.
	Sopwith Camel 2.F.1 Ship Camel	1918	N8156 (RAF)	An improved version of the Sopwith Camal built for the Royal Naval Air Service .
	Spectrum Beaver RX550	1986	C-IGOW	An ultralight aircraft designed and built in Canada .
	Stinson SR Reliant	1933	C-FHAW
	Stitts SA-3A Playboy	1955	C-FRAD	Made in Canada.
	Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk.IX	1944	NH188 (RAF)
	Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IIB	1941	P8332 (RAF)
	Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVIe	1945	TE 214 (RAF)
	Vickers 757 Viscount	1957	CF-THI	The first turboprop airliner operated by Trans-Canada Air Lines in Canada.
	Westland Lysander III	1967	R9003 (RAF)	Replica of a machine built for the RCAF by the National Steel Car Corporation.
	Zenair CH-300 Tri-Z	1978	C-GOVK	Designed and built in Canada.

Web links

Commons : Canada Aviation and Space Museum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Canada Science and Technology Museums, accessed January 1, 2017 (museum website). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aircraft By Name. In: Collections. Canada Aviation and Space Museum, accessed January 1, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Messerschmitt Me 163B-1A Comet. In: Research. Canada Aviation and Space Museum, accessed on May 10, 2018 (English): "The Museum had two Me 163s [...]"