Britman Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Museum visit on the tour . This was a smashing museum with a large storage hangar next door full of little gems. Twelve gun single seat Hurricane! Replica Avro Arrow and Barkley Groe in front of port wing. Edmonton airport. Sorry about the lack of too many captions, but most are self explanatory. If anyone has any queries I should be glad to help if I can. Keith. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Great range of subjects. The Avro Arrow... is it another replica ? As I saw one in the 'Torunno' (Toronto) Aerospace museum back in 2006 and it had the red painted panels, but that museum has now closed and wonder what has happened to the collection. Next observation, N329J... it looks like one of the two engined Jetstars... am I right? ? What is the creamy coloured little biplane beneath the DC-3 nose and the green yellow high wing type resembling a Norseman( which it is not)?? Got any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocky05d Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Paul J said: Great range of subjects. The Avro Arrow... is it another replica ? As I saw one in the 'Torunno' (Toronto) Aerospace museum back in 2006 and it had the red painted panels, but that museum has now closed and wonder what has happened to the collection. Next observation, N329J... it looks like one of the two engined Jetstars... am I right? ? What is the creamy coloured little biplane beneath the DC-3 nose and the green yellow high wing type resembling a Norseman( which it is not)?? Got any more? We were in Toronto in 2005 ,went to a museum where they were restoring a Lancaster .Is that the museum that has closed down ,i remember it was in the north of the city . PS ,further east there was another museum where the Halifax was being prepared for painting after being restored . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britman Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Paul J said: Great range of subjects. The Avro Arrow... is it another replica ? As I saw one in the 'Torunno' (Toronto) Aerospace museum back in 2006 and it had the red painted panels, but that museum has now closed and wonder what has happened to the collection. Next observation, N329J... it looks like one of the two engined Jetstars... am I right? ? What is the creamy coloured little biplane beneath the DC-3 nose and the green yellow high wing type resembling a Norseman( which it is not)?? Got any more? Try the quote wot I wrote! If you have the interest , I have the pictures ,including my first air to air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Another very nice selection, mate. You had a lot of very nice machines to drool over ;). Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 11 hours ago, Britman said: Try the quote wot I wrote! If you have the interest , I have the pictures ,including my first air to air. ?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britman Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 Paul , sorry I can be a bit cryptic from time to time! First word under the Arrow . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Dot Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 On 09/04/2018 at 8:42 PM, cocky05d said: We were in Toronto in 2005 ,went to a museum where they were restoring a Lancaster .Is that the museum that has closed down ,i remember it was in the north of the city . PS ,further east there was another museum where the Halifax was being prepared for painting after being restored . I think the museum with the Lancaster you are referring to, is the Toronto International Aerospace museum near to Pearson Airport in the old Avro buildings. It's closed at present and has been for some time but also had an Arrow replica too. It used to be called the Canadian Air and Space Museum. The Halifax was fully restored some years ago and is at Trenton in the National Air Force Museum of Canada. Well worth a visit Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Red Dot said: I think the museum with the Lancaster you are referring to, is the Toronto International Aerospace museum near to Pearson Airport in the old Avro buildings. It's closed at present and has been for some time but also had an Arrow replica too. It used to be called the Canadian Air and Space Museum. The Halifax was fully restored some years ago and is at Trenton in the National Air Force Museum of Canada. Well worth a visit Andy Just to verify the Toronto Museum former location was Downsview not really that near to the main airport. I don't recall , off hand recall the proper name of it right now. Anyway its not there now and stuff is in store some where. The Trenton collection is good with the Halifax undercover and the rest all outside.At least they were when I visited in 2006. A superb collection is the Canada Aviation and Space Museum at Rockcliffe just outside Ottawa. The best collection I have ever seen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 I was at the Reynolds Museum in 2008. It was a bit different than your pictures. No Arrow replica and a few others that were not there, but still a great display. The Hurricane did look great. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocky05d Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Hi Andy ,yes we were there in 2005 .Next big trip i and my brother are planning to go on ,(well i plan ,my brother moans about it ) is the east coast of America . Boston down to Kittyhawk NC ,then over to Dayton for another visit . Might put it off until you know who vacates the White House . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocky05d Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 PS, while we are the subject of Aircraft museums ,is it compulsory for every museum to have a Flying Flea in them ? For a homebuilt banned aircraft there seems to be a lot of them around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britman Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 Might have been a lot less if they had been allowed to fly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britman Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 On Monday, April 09, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Paul J said: Great range of subjects. The Avro Arrow... is it another replica ? As I saw one in the 'Torunno' (Toronto) Aerospace museum back in 2006 and it had the red painted panels, but that museum has now closed and wonder what has happened to the collection. Next observation, N329J... it looks like one of the two engined Jetstars... am I right? ? What is the creamy coloured little biplane beneath the DC-3 nose and the green yellow high wing type resembling a Norseman( which it is not)?? Got any more? The green and yellow beastie is a Bellanca Senior Pacemaker CF-DCH and I think the JetStar is as you say. The little cream biplane I cannot help with. If I had a digital camere at the time I might have taken even more pictures and we could be on these pictures for the next ten years! More to come with a little for everyone I hope. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 I have photos from visit in two Canadian museums: Ottawa musem in 1994 and in Hamilton in 2011 (including film from taxing of Lancaster and low fly of Lysander...) I have to dig them out... Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Love the Arrow - awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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