Canadian Museum of Flight

Canadian Museum of Flight

Established	1977 1998 (current location)
Location	Langley Regional Airport in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
Website	www.canadianflight.org

Fleet Finch at Canadian Museum of Flight

Canadian Museum of Flight Handley Page Hampden

The Canadian Museum of Flight (formally the Canadian Museum of Flight Association since 1998) is an aviation museum at the Langley Regional Airport in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. The museum has over 25 civilian and military jets, piston driven engine aircraft, gliders, and helicopters on display, six of which have been restored to flying condition. Other displays include an aviation art gallery and aviation artefacts.

Hampden bomber

The museum's Handley Page Hampden is the last of its type in existence. The aircraft was used in coastal patrol on the BC coast in World War II and crashed offshore in 1942. It was recovered in 1985 and was restored over a twenty-year period. The rare aircraft is stored outdoors, and on 26 December 2008, an especially heavy snowfall broke the left wing spars. This caused the wing to separate from the fuselage.^[1] Over the Summer of 2012, a rebuilt replica wing was fixed to the root and is now open for public display once again.

Aircraft

List of aircraft displayed :

Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Mk.3B
Beechcraft 3NMT Expeditor (C-45)
Bowlus Bumblebee BB1
Canadair (Lockheed) T-33AN Silver Star
Canadair CT-114 Tutor (Snowbird)
Canadian Quickie 1 (Homebuilt)
Conair Firecat^[2]
Douglas DC-3 "CF-PWH" "Spirit of the Skeena"
de Havilland DH100 Vampire Mk3
de Havilland DH82C Tiger Moth (Flying condition)
Fleet 16B Finch MkII (Flying condition)
Handley Page Hampden
Lockheed CF-104D Starfighter
North American Harvard Mk IIB (Flying condition)
Mignet "Pou du Ciel"
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a (7/8 Replica) (Flying condition)
Sikorsky S-55
Sopwith Camel (Replica)
Struchen Ultralight Helicopter
Waco AQC-6 (Flying condition)
Waco INF (Flying condition)
Westland Lysander Mk III

Affiliations

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

References

↑ Niles, Russ (January 2009). "Snowfall Snaps Wing Off Rare Vintage Plane". Retrieved 2009-01-05.
↑ Niles, Russ (7 October 2012). "Firecat Goes To Museum". AVweb. Retrieved 8 October 2012.

External links

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Canadian Aviation Museums

Alberta	Aero Space Museum of Calgary Alberta Aviation Museum Bomber Command Museum of Canada Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame Cold Lake Air Force Museum Reynolds-Alberta Museum

British Columbia	British Columbia Aviation Museum Canadian Museum of Flight Comox Air Force Museum

Manitoba	Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Manitoba Military Aviation Museum Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada

Nova Scotia	Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum Greenwood Military Aviation Museum Shearwater Aviation Museum

Newfoundland & Labrador	North Atlantic Aviation Museum

Ontario	Canada Aviation and Space Museum Canadian Air and Space Museum Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Great War Flying Museum Jet Aircraft Museum Memorial Military Museum National Air Force Museum of Canada

Quebec	Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre Musée de la Défense aérienne Vintage Wings of Canada

Saskatchewan	Saskatchewan Western Development Museum

See also	List of aerospace museums

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