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Triple-engined search and rescue helicopter that replaced the CH-113 Labrador. Fourteen delivered between 2000 and 2002. Based at (103 Squadron) 9 Wing Gander, Newfoundland; (413 Squadron) 14 Wing Greenwood, Nova Scotia; and (442 Squadron) 19 Wing Comox, British Columbia. One aircraft has been lost in a training accident.
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Inc. was awarded a C$640 million contract to overhaul and repair the CH-146 fleet until retirement in 2021. The contract includes options to extend the contract up to 2025 if necessary. [6] [7] In January 2019, Canada announced plans to modernize and extend the life of the existing 85 CH-146s to 2031. [8]
Canada: NBC suit: 50,000 [26] Originally purchased in 2004. Manufactured by Pacific Safety Systems. [15] Due to be replaced. [27] [28] CADPAT MT Canada: Camouflage: Selected as new primary camouflage pattern of Canadian Army Tools and melee weapons CAN bayonet 2000 Canada: Bayonet/combat knife: Replaced C7 knife-bayonet after 2004, used with ...
The Canadian Air Force (CAF) was established in 1920 as the successor to a short-lived two-squadron Canadian Air Force that was formed during the First World War in Europe. . Wing Commander John Scott Williams was tasked in 1921 with organizing the CAF, handing command over later the same year to Air Marshal Lindsay Gordon.
The new helicopter will provide reconnaissance, aerial escort, fire support, light combat airlift for Canadian Army and Canadian Special Operations Force Command. [65] On April 8, 2024 the Government of Canada announced that $18.4 billion would be spent over 20 years, to acquire new tactical helicopters. [66] Utility Transport Aircraft
From 1917 to November 1918 the British government funded and operated the Royal Flying Corps Canada (later Royal Air Force Canada) which trained aviators on the approximately 1,210 Curtiss Canucks built in Canada, 120 Curtiss JN-4s built in the US, as well as two Avro 504s and one Airco DH.6 built in Canada.
In 2008, Canada purchased 6 CH-47Ds from the U.S. for the Canadian Helicopter Force Afghanistan for $252 million. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] With 1 CH-47D lost to an accident, [ 102 ] the remaining five were sold in 2011 after the end of Canada's Afghanistan mission and replaced with seven CH-147Fs.
Officially stood up on 22 July 2022, [84] 3 Canadian Space Division (3 CSD) (3 e Division spatiale du Canada or 3 e DSC) is the Air Force's main agency responsible for delivering space power effects in support of Canadian Armed Forces operations.