View allAll Photos Tagged rcaf
15004 - Airbus A-310-304F/CC-150 Polaris -
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF - ARC)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 444 - built in 1987 for Wardair Canada and operated as C-FNWD -
bought by the Canadian Forces 02/1993 and later converted to tanker/freighter configuration (MRTT)
Husky 4 is open for the public during AirForce 100
RCAF 23455 - Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk. 6 - Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
in European camouflage livery)
at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottaea-Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
c/n 1245 - built in 1955 and in active service until 1964 - donated to the museum
RCAF 20270 - North American (Canadian Car & Foundry) AT-6 Harvard 4
at Red Deer Airport (YQF)
c/n CCF4-161 - built in 1952 -
Since 2007 mounted on a pedestal near the terminal entrance of the Red Deer Regional Airport by the Red Deer Flying Club Association.
130336 - Lockheed CC-130H Hercules - RCAF - ARC Royal Canadian Air Force
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 4580 - built in 1975 for the United Arab Emirates Air Force - to Canada in 1996
8 Wing/CFB Trenton - 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron
A Royal Canadian Air Force Boeing CC-177 Globemaster III over flying Newtownards this afternoon quite low perhaps with call in at RAF Aldergrove?
Probably the most famous Allied bomber of the Second World War, the Avro Lancaster had impressive flying characteristics and operational performance. What is surprising is that such a fine aircraft should have resulted from Avro’s desperate attempts to remedy the defects of its earlier unsuccessful Manchester bomber. The prototype Lancaster, which flew in January 1941, was a converted Manchester airframe with an enlarged wing centre section and four 1145 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin Xs. The Merlins replaced two 1,760 hp Rolls-Royce Vulture engines, which had proved to be very unreliable. The modifications were an immediate success and such was the speed of development in wartime the first production Lancaster was flown in October 1941.
The Museum's Lancaster Mk. X was built at Victory Aircraft, Malton in July 1945 and was later converted to a RCAF 10MR configuration. In 1952, it suffered a serious accident and received a replacement wing centre section from a Lancaster that had flown in combat over Germany. It served as a maritime patrol aircraft, with No. 405 Squadron, Greenwood, NS and No. 107 Rescue Unit, Torbay, Newfoundland for many years and was retired from the RCAF in late 1963. With help from the Sulley Foundation in 1977, it was acquired from the Royal Canadian Legion in Goderich, Ontario, where it had been on outside display. Eleven years passed before it was completely restored and flew again on September 24, 1988. The Lancaster is dedicated to the memory of P/O Andrew Mynarski and is referred to as the “Mynarski Memorial Lancaster”. It is painted in the colours of his aircraft KB726 – VR-A, which flew with RCAF No. 419 "Moose" Squadron. Andrew Mynarski won the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s highest award for gallantry, on June 13, 1944, when his Lancaster was shot down in flames, by a German night fighter. As the bomber fell, he attempted to free the tail gunner trapped in the rear turret of the blazing and out of control aircraft. The tail gunner miraculously survived the crash and lived to tell the story, but sadly Andrew Mynarski died from his severe burns.
Nikon D750 - AF Nikkor 24mm 1:2.8
Editor: Adobe Lightroom CC
THERE ARE ACTUALLY people who say, there never was a Canadian-made Jet Lancaster.
Now I expect that from Torontonians, where unless its something green… they don't know a thing.
But from Trentonians? C'mon.
They laugh, and slap their knees, coughing and cackling, telling me I'm too much!
Well.
That, sure looks like a Jet Lanc' to me!
RCAF FM209, a Mark X Lancaster, made originally, and modified entirely in Toronto. It flew as the Jet Lancaster for the first time on July 10, 1950… 59 years ago TODAY!!
I could tell them that the Jet Lanc' met an unfortunate end, in Toronto, at Orenda, and burned to the ground on July 24, 1956. That, and alongside about a hundred other stabled RCAF aircraft in Orenda's notorious experimental aircraft hangar. Historically, perhaps the worst fire in Toronto. That people ran for their lives from the burning hangar, and were blown to the ground, when... when…
Nah… guess all that didn't happen—
I could tell them about the engines that powered the Jet Lanc', that these were the secretive Orenda TR.4s… and for a brief time (one year) were the MOST POWERFUL jet engines in the world, at an incredible 2,600lbs of thrust!
I could tell them how the Jet Lanc' on its VERY FIRST flight flew across Lake Ontario right over Buffalo and was intercepted by P-47 Thunderbolts of the United States Air National Guard.
These US defenders had been scrambled to investigate the strange, high speed, intruder. The Jet Lanc' literally flew circles around the normally deadly Thunderbolts.
What a sight that must have been!
For those ANG pilots to see a very large, heavy bomber, darting about the sky like a Spitfire!
And just as quickly as RCAF FM209 had appeared within US air space, she was gone again… on her way back to Canada.
Doing barrel-rolls.
Those Avro Canada Jet Lanc' pilots eventually got their wrists slapped for that maneuver. Right after they had told the story, a few more times, for yet another straggler, who had arrived, mid-story.
BUT, the Jet Lanc' never existed, folks!
Apparently ~
Damn, no-nothings.
Oh, but it did exist. And it was a part of our incredibly great, and our distinctly CANADIAN aviation history. When for a flicker, when for a flash… CANADA was second to none in aeronautical research. Development. And achievement.
Put that in your pipe, and smoke it… 'cause… I'm, outta' here…
149911
EHI CH-149 Cormorant
Canadian Forces
Built 2002
C/N 50119/CSH11
Girls Fly Too event
In real need of a bath, with 413 Squadron from Greenwood NS, though we have them here based in Comox.
Colonel from the Royal Canadian Air Force salutes after laying a wreath at the Airborne Square close to the John Frost Bridge at Arnhem.
RCAF 146422 - Bell CH-146 Griffon - Canadian Forces
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM) in yellow SAR colours during SAREX 2017
also with new RCAF - ARC - markings and 75 Years sticker, "Tigers" spec. tail col.
424 TRS Squadron "Tigers" 8 Wing SARTech Training Flight.
based CFB Trenton (CYTR)
RCAF 146422 - Bell CH-146 Griffon - Canadian Forces
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM) in yellow SAR colours during SAREX 2017
also with new RCAF - ARC - markings and 75 Years sticker, "Tigers" spec. tail col.
424 TRS Squadron "Tigers" 8 Wing SARTech Training Flight.
based CFB Trenton (CYTR)
RCAF 3643 - Fleet Fort - Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
The Fleet 60K Fort was designed by Fleet Aircraft in Fort Erie, Ontario in 1939 and its first flight took place there on March 21 1940. RCAF evaluation at the Central Flying School, Trenton, Ontario showed it to be suitable as an intermediate trainer and so the RCAF placed an order for 200 Model 60Ks.
The Museum's Fleet Fort has only been restored on one half to give visitors an idea of the task faced in restoring an old aircraft.
… not always RCAF.
This former RCAF CF-104, now flying with the demo team known as the "Starfighters", was captured over the" dirty skies" of Toronto around CIAS time.
It's LOUD.
And FAST.
And everyone looks at it!
When it's in the air… you might as well fly nothin' else! You couldn't hear anything else anyway!!
MADE IN MONTREAL and 200 hundred others just like it, for the RCAF in the 60s. It was designed with and had NUCLEAR STRIKE capability! Had Canada needed to drop nuclear bombs anywhere… this is ONE of the aircraft we woulda' done it with!
CANADAIR OF MONTREAL made an additional 140 F-104Gs for Lockheed.
This was a DANGEROUS and UNFORGIVING interceptor to fly and 110 RCAF Starfighters were lost in accidents!
For a SUPER COOL photo of some RCAF CF-104s in flight SEE:
188739 - McDonnell Douglas CF-188A Hornet - Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF - ARC)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 284 - built in 1989 -
operated by 3 Wing, 425 SQN, CFB Bagotvlle, QC
For the Grey Cup (finale of the Canadian Football League) in Hamilton the RCAF did a 4 aircraft formation overfly - the aircraft then stayed overnight at YHM
A snapshot photo found in a Toronto antique shop. My guess is that this is the interior of an Avro Anson? The photo probably was taken during a training flight in Canada during WW2. Would anyone care to confirm my ID on this photo? Is this the wireless (radio) operator in the left foreground? Would the chap sitting midships be a navigator or flight engineer?
RCAF 133190 - Canadair CT-133 Silver Star - Royal Canadian Air Force
in special colours with titles
ATESS (Aerospace and Telecommunications and Engineering Support Squadron)
and
ESTTMA (Escadron de soutien technique des télécommunications et des moyens aérospatiaux)
at CFB Trenton/ON (YTR)
located at the front gate of the north side of the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, ON.
c/n T33-190 - 133190 was built in 1954 by Canadair under licence from Lockheed.
It entered service as RCAF c/n 21190. and served with 414 Sqn at RCAF Station Comox. After 414 Sqn was re-equipped with Canadair CF100 all-weather interceptors, the T33 was transferred to several more units, before eventual renumbering to 133190 upon CF integration, in 1970.
This aircraft spent its last operational years at CFB Cold Lake, AB as part of Aerospace Evaluation and Test Establishment (AETE) before being ferried to the Aerospace Maintenance and Development Unit (AMDU) at CFB Trenton in 1995
This is the same Hawker Hurricane that Bob Diemert of Carman, Manitoba recovered from a local farm and rebuilt and flew in the movie "The Battle of Britain." Pictured here during the filming of the movie in England, 1969.
Photo via Diemert to Blake Smith collection.
Please no publication requests or re-posting to websites.
This is believed to be the prototype Canadair Tutor and was seen on display at Portage La Prairie. It wears the scheme of the RCAF Golden Centennaires which were formed to celebrate Canada"s Centennial in 1967. A short while later the Canadian Snowbirds were formed using the Tutor.
147309 - Boeing Vertol CH-147F Chinook - Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF - ARC)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
operated by 450 Sqn at CFB Petawawa, ON
c/n M2059 - built in 2013
188938 - McDonnell Douglas CF-188B - Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF - ARC)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
during the 2024 Air Force 100 - Show
c/n 738 - built in 1988
operated by 425 sqn (Alouette Squadron) , based CFB Bagotville
back-up aircraft for the RCAF CF-18 demo-team
15002
Airbus CC-150 Polaris (A310)
RCAF - Royal Canadian Air Force
Ottawa/Macdonald–Cartier Airport - YOW / CYOW
Born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Bentley joined the air force in October 1941. He was just 20.
For Bentley, a Dakota pilot the D-Day invasion began on the night of June 5 when he dropped a “stick” of paratroopers behind the beaches of Normandy.
Even now, Bentley marvels at the size of the invading force.
“On the way back, we didn’t fly very high. We were only up a couple of thousand feet so I had a really good view of the invading force,” Bentley said. “The ships were so thick down below, I could have walked back on the ships if I had longer legs.
“It was probably the greatest day in military history.”
Bentley, who also served in the Battle of Arnhem, also known as Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands.
RCAF 21574 - Canadair CT-133 (CL-30) Silver Star - Royal Canadian Air Force
in special "Red Knight" show display colours
at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
c/n T-33-574 - built in 1957
15001
Airbus CC-150 Polaris (A310-304)
Canadian Forces
Built 1988
C/N 446
Canforce1 arriving for the UN summit with PM Trudeau from the Philippines
UPDATE JUN 2020
Still current. Delivered to Wardair as C-GBWD named "C.C. Carl Agar" and merged into Canadian Airlines Jan 1990. To the RCAF early 1993 with this serial and was temporarily registered F-WQCQ during conversion and outfitting and delivered Aug 1996.
RCAF 101025 - McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo - Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
c/n 519 -
This Voodoo was manufactured by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri in 1959. That same year, it was sent to Glasgow, Montana, where it flew with the 13th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron of the U.S. Air Force. From there it went to a support base in Utah. The aircraft ended its U.S. career flying with the 87th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron between July 1968 and January 1970.
In February 1971, the Voodoo was transferred to the Canadian Armed Forces in a batch sent to replace earlier Voodoos in Canadian service. The aircraft was refurbished by Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg, Manitoba. It served with No. 409 Squadron at Comox, British Columbia from March 1972 to June 1980, and then with No. 416 Squadron at Chatham, New Brunswick from December 1980 to July 1984.
The Museum acquired the Voodoo in 1984. It was flown to Uplands airport in Ottawa and then airlifted to Rockcliffe airport by a No. 450 Squadron Boeing CH-147 Chinook helicopter.