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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.
A version of the PBY-5A Catalina, this aircraft was built in 1944 for the Royal Canadian Air Force A Vickers Vedette replica at the Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Canadian Vickers MR-63 car on its last day in service on the Montreal Metro.
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 ...
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]
Canada: Branch: Royal Canadian Air Force: Role: Flying Boat (FB)unit General Reconnaissance (GR) Bomber Reconnaissance (BR) [1] Part of: RCAF Western Air Command: Battle honours: Pacific Coast 1941-1945 [2] Aircraft flown; Bomber: Blackburn Shark Mk.III [1] Patrol: Canadian Vickers Vancouver Mk.II Canadian Vickers Vedette Supermarine Stranraer ...
The Vancouver Air Station was one of five stations established by the Canadian Air Board's Flying Operations Branch during its first summer of operations in 1920. Its location at Jericho Beach was on government-owned land which had been declared a naval reserve in 1859, but had been logged and used as a golf course since 1889. [1]
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Canadian Vickers Vedette 1924 forestry patrol flying boat, 60 built; CANT 7 1924 flying boat trainer, 34 built; Ikarus ŠM 1924 flying boat trainer, 42 built; Macchi M.26 1924 flying boat fighter, 2 built; CANT 10 1925 flying boat airliner, 18 built; Rohrbach Ro VII Robbe 1925 flying boat, 3 built; Savoia-Marchetti S.59 1925 reconnaissance ...