CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM


Museum building with a CF-104 Starfighter mounted as a monument

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.
Mynarski Memorial Lancaster


Contents
List of Aircraft
Fighter Aircraft
Trainers/Transports
Fighter Jets
Bombers
Anti-Submarine
Observation
Army Co-operation
Single Engine Trainers
References
See also
External links

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
Fighter Jets


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
Bombers

B-25J


Avro Lancaster

Bristol Bolingbroke

★ North American B-25J Mitchell

★ 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

References


See also



List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage

External links



Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

Hamilton International Airport website

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