Did you know that the Museum has three octogenarians in residence? No, no, not the volunteers, we mean some of the aircraft in the collection!
The de Havilland 82 Tiger Moth, the Harvard II and the Bolingbroke are all listed as having been built in Canada in 1941 – a cool 80 years ago. When they were built, world affairs were in a perilous state. Canada had the resources and expertise to build aircraft and all three were built under licence.
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Other aircraft in the Museum’s collection from this vintage are the Douglas DC-3 (1940), Fleet Finch (1940), Stearman (1940), Lysander (1942) and the Hampden (1942). Other aircraft built about this time in Canada include the Hawker Hurricane fighter, the DH Mosquito bomber, the Canso flying boat and the Fairchild Cornell trainer.