Photos © Ruud Leeuw
Photos © Ruud Leeuw
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Summer vacation in 2007 brought me to Canada. My itinerary made me travel through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba as well as parts of Northwest Ontario. |
 The museum has exhibitions at four different locations in the province and many aspects of life are portrayed. The Moose Jaw branch houses the transport collection. There are impressive displays of cars, boats and railway equipment. At the entrance sits this forward fuselage of, I think, Avro 652A Anson I; below one can see the interior of the cockpit. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) had many bases in the area and a replica of the front of a typical hangar has been built with examples of aircraft in the famous yellow scheme parked nearby. However, disaster struck... I seem either to have lost a compact flash card with the images taken at the museum or failed to make a proper back up before deleting the images for the card's further use  The museum offers more aircraft on display than shown on the photos below; I am esspecially saddened that the images of the Noorduyn Norseman Mk.V CF-SAM [Airliners.net] were lost: it was the 2nd aircraft used by the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service and was bought in 1946; during its first year of operation it flew 173 patient missions - the service peaked in 1953 with 1.000 missions. The Moose Jaw WDM has also a special display of the Snowbirds aerobatic team. |
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 Jodel D.9 Bébé CF-PFB (c/n 1) This D-9 was built from a kit in Estevan,SAS and used for pleasure flying |
 Piper J3C-65X CF-LBE (c/n 4848X) on floats |
 DeHavilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth CF-ADI (c/n 781) |
 DeHavilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth CF-ADI (c/n 781) |
 An early glider, but I don't remember which one |
 Pheasant H-10 G-CASR (c/n 121), former NC5417 |
 Funk B-85C CF-HAR (c/n 311), ex/ N81181 |
 Aeronca K, CF-BIN (c/n K-280) |
 This is the front hull portion of a Vickers Vidette flying boat. This aircraft was used in northern Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s for forest fire suppression and other work. |
 DeHavilland DH.82C Tiger Moth, C-GYGU - 3985 |
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Other Canadian aviation museums I visited during this 2007 vacation are:
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario (17Sep07) Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba (2007) Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba (2007) Nanton Lancaster Air Museum, Nanton, Alberta (2007) |
 So I made it a point to visit the new RCMP Heritage Centre in neighbouring Regina, but was told at the reception desk that the DHC-3 Otter (cockpit, CF-MPW) on display had not 'survived' the move earlier this year to the brand new museum. So I cancelled my intention to enter the museum, instead I went over to the former entrance where I found permission to photograph the Beech D18S on display here. Fortunately Shannon Cunningham (Conservator/Collections Manager) sent me good news on CF-MPW's fate: "It is in storage in the back room of the Heritage Centre. In fact, we just moved the engine from the old museum to the new facility a couple of weeks ago. We are hoping to have it back out on exhibit at some point in the future as it is extremely popular with children." [April 15th, 2008]  Beech D18S CF-MPH (c/n A-141) |
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Created: 28-Mar-2008
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