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One of the Royal Canadian Navy's west coast subs entering Esquimalt Harbour in the early morning light.
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Canadian Forces Auxiliary Vessel (CFAV) Glendale underway off Esquimalt Lagoon in bound for Dockyard.
1975 Ford Granada GL 2.3 coupe.
A left-hand drive import from Germany registered here in August 1985.
RCN Rundstrecken-Challenge 2014, 12 July 2014,
Nordschleife, Brünnchen.
RCN 1577 - Grumman CSF-2 Tracker (CP-121) - Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM) -
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
built in 1959 under license by deHavilland Canada -
also registered C-GNVY
The CWHM has started work to bring the Tracker back to airworthy status -progress is slow but steady
The Tracker obtained by the Canadian Warplane Heritage is RCN serial number 1577 and construction number 76. It was accepted by the RCN on December 10, 1959. 1577 was sent to the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Technology & Engineering (CTSATE) at Canadian Forces Base Borden on January 14, 1970. At the CTSATE it carried instructional airframe designations A732 and 732B. When the airframe was surplus and sold into the civil market it was assigned civil registration C-FUDH. The Canadian Warplane Heritage obtained the airframe in late 1997.
RCN 1577 - Grumman CSF-2 Tracker - Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM) -
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
The CWHM has started work to bring the Tracker back to airworthy status - not to much visible progress has been made in the last few months.
Will become C-GNVY when finished.
c/n DHC 76 - built in 1959 under license by deHavilland Canada.
The Tracker obtained by the Canadian Warplane Heritage was accepted by the RCN on December 10, 1959. 1577 was sent to the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Technology & Engineering (CTSATE) at Canadian Forces Base Borden on January 14, 1970. At the CTSATE it carried instructional airframe designations A732 and 732B. When the airframe was declared surplus and sold into the civil market it was assigned civil registration C-FUDH. The Canadian Warplane Heritage obtained the airframe in late 1997.
November 18, 2016 Atlantic ocean. HMCS St. John's nighttime view of the bridge from the foc'sle. Photo Jacek Szymanski RCN Broadcast Unit.
RCN 1387 - Bell 47G - Royal Canadian Navy
(yellow SAR-colours)
at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa-Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
This HTL-6 helicopter was manufactured by Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas in 1955, and began service with the Royal Canadian Navy in June of that year. It served with Royal Canadian Navy helicopter squadron HU-21 at the land base HMCS Shearwater in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where it performed pilot training and utility operations for the fleet. It later served on the icebreaker HMCS Labrador, which carried out resupply, survey and ice-breaking functions in the Canadian Arctic. It was transferred to the Museum in October 1966.
51-16623 - Piasecki HUP-3 - Royal Canadian Navy (TCN)
at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum at Ottawa Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
This HUP-3 was manufactured in May 1954 by Piasecki Helicopter Corporation in Norton, Pennsylvania. Built as a model H-25A Army Mule for the U.S. Army, it was immediately modified (door and winch were installed) for use by the Royal Canadian Navy.
The helicopter was flown to Halifax on May 18 to begin service with helicopter squadron HU-21 in June 1954. During its career, the HUP-3 was used for search-and-rescue operations and training duties, and was deployed aboard HMCS Labrador.
The HUP-3 was retired in 1964 and purchased by the Museum on February 24, 1965. It was restored by Boeing Canada in Arnprior, Ontario between May 1981 and November 1982.
The aircraft was the last of a line of pioneer helicopters developed under the Piasecki name. Early versions of the HUP were called the “hupmobile” or “shoe”, because of their distinctive shape. A prototype performed the first known loop by a helicopter. A large cargo door in the side of the fuselage could accommodate a stretcher and hoist for rescue work. A floor hatch allowed 180-kg (400-lb) loads to be winched up into the cabin.
Piasecki Helicopters became later Vertol/Boeing Vertol Helicopters
Like many other Independent's there was always something in there interesting enough at Stevensons to make you stop as you went passed through Spath just outside Uttoxeter. In the early Eighties the fleet was modernised firstly with former portsmouth and Maidstone Atlanteans but the availability of so many short life DMS fleetlines outstead from London mean't they became more or less the standard bus which took away a bit of the gloss. However of course as well as numerous much liked Leopards a surprise purchase came in the shape of this former Northern General Routemaster which to be honest I don't think looked particularly good in yellow and even worse in that totally unsuitable jazzed up livery.
Boeing 737/8 of SAS Scandinavian Airlines on final approach to rwy.27R at London Heathrow-LHR, 08/04/16.
RCN 55877 - Sikorsky S-55/HO4S-3 - Royal Canadian Navy
at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
c/n 555877 - built in 1955, This S-55, known as "Shearwater Angel," served the RCN for fifteen years until 1970, when it was retired and donated to the Museum. It participated in eight rescue missions and was credited with rescuing thirty-two people and four animals over its lifetime. Eight maple leaves decorate the nose of the helicopter, one for each rescue mission.
with 700 hp (522 kW) Wright R-1300-3 radial engine
The last WWII hangar at the naval air station at Victoria airport.
Home of 443 Maratime Helicopter Squadron
The last WWII hangar at the naval air station at Victoria airport.
Home of 443 Maratime Helicopter Squadron
N431 RCN - Durham & Darlington Fire Service - Dennis Sabre water tender ladder - exported 2013. Photo by the late Dave Hinde at Darlington on 20th July 1998
RCN 699 was the former Northern General Routemaster that surprisingly went to Stevensons of Uttoxeter in 1981 well after rear engine vehicles had become the norm. Having just left the yard in Spath on school duties RCN proudly displays its AEC badge on the radiator; however the Northern General Routemasters were fitted with Leyland engines and as a consequence somebody has fitted this vehicle with a Leyland badge below the front destination . The bus was sold to Stagecoach in 1986 and re-registered EDS 508B, it passed on for preservation in 1991 and was re-re-registered PCN 762.
May 1983.
As a bus enthusiast my feet were very much in the BET camp and I found it had to understand why after it was bought out by the THC that they didn't addopt it's progressive management style instead of plodding on with those rather conservative and dated looking Bristols, not that it mattered really as once the NBC got going changing everything with it's Leyland National heralding a new era. But I took heart in the fact that as Bristol couldn't keep pace with the need for new buses former BET operators like Northern General were allowed to continue to buy the very good AN68 Atlantean. Northern buses looked very scruffy in NBC red as it quickly faded and appeared much better when it's buses like this attractive Park Royal bodied example were painted in the Tyneside PTE bright but not brash yellow. Before I get any complaints I might add that I later grew quite fond of Bristols as they had a character all of their own which really came out once they became more of charming relic of the good old days when buses were buses lol.
Boeing 737-883 msn28318/529 de 2000
SAS (01/10/2009 - ...)
Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur
27/09/2009
aussi: SE-DTK, LN-RCN, OY-KLB, --