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The Canadian Vickers Vedette was the first aircraft designed and built in Canada to meet a specification for Canadian conditions. It was a single-engine biplane flying boat purchased to meet a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) demand for a smaller aircraft than the Vickers Viking with a much greater rate of climb, to be suitable for forestry survey and fire protection work.
Although the Canadian government purchased and built thousands of military aircraft for use by the RCAF Home War Establishment (RCAF Eastern Air Command and RCAF Western Air Command) and the Canadian-based units of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, under the provisions of the plan Canada was to provide the training aircraft and ...
Canadian Vickers Vedette (May 36–Aug 39) Northrop Delta (Feb 37– Nov 41) Bristol Bolingbroke I and IV (Dec 40–Aug 43) Lockheed Ventura GR.V (May 43–May 45) Two letter Squadron code was YO from Aug 39 - May 42, GA from May until the use of Squadron codes was discontinued in the RCAF HWE on the 16 Oct 1942, "for security reasons". [6]
Canadian Vickers ordered the construction of a large floating drydock, which was opened in 1912. [1] [3] Due to the establishment of Canadian Vickers, Montreal became one of Canada's leading shipbuilding centres. [1] The shipyard's first full year of operation was 1914, a year marked by the beginning of World War I. [2]
In the mid-1980s, the museum moved to a former Trans Canada Air Lines and Transair hangar, T-2, at Winnipeg International Airport. [4] [6] The museum developed a master plan for a new facility in 2013 with the design firm Reich&Petch. [7] The museum received the Royal designation on December 19, 2014, to become the Royal Aviation Museum of ...
No. 6 Squadron was authorized as a Torpedo Bomber unit on 4 March 1936 at the RCAF main training base in Trenton, Ontario, under the control of RCAF headquarters. It began service training with Canadian Vickers Vedette flying boats before receiving Blackburn Shark torpedo bombers from England in January 1937.
This is a list of aircraft of Canada's air forces. Aircraft are listed for the following organizations: Canadian Aviation Corps (1914–1915) which operated a single Burgess-Dunne tailless floatplane
Of 1,430 Hampdens manufactured, 160 were built in Canada by the "Canadian Associated Aircraft" consortium of three Ontario (Fleet Aircraft, National Steel Car, Ottawa Car and Aircraft) and three Quebec (Canadian Car and Foundry, Fairchild, Canadian Vickers) aircraft companies as a so-called "educational project" to build up the Canadian ...