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Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
Location	John C. Munro International Airport on the outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario
Website	www.warplane.com

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The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum is a major Canadian aviation museum. It is located at the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport on the outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario.

The museum is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to acquire, document, preserve and maintain a complete collection of aircraft that were flown by Canadians and the Canadian military services from the beginning of the Second World War to the present.

A large collection of military aircraft that have played a major role in the Canadian military are displayed, including one of two airworthy Avro Lancasters and a Supermarine Spitfire. The museum is also in the process of restoring lesser known but historically significant aircraft, including a Westland Lysander and a Bristol Bolingbroke (a version of the Bristol Blenheim).

The Avro Lancaster flown out of the museum, one of only two airworthy Lancasters in the world, is known as the Mynarski Memorial Lancaster in honour of Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski, and is painted in the markings of his aircraft. An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum by the province to commemorate Eileen Vollick's role in Ontario's heritage. Eileen Vollick was Canada's first licensed female pilot^[1]

Prince Charles, as a member of the Canadian Royal Family, is the royal patron of the museum.

Collection

The museum's aircraft include:^[2]

Fighter aircraft

• Supermarine Spitfire MK XVI
• Hawker Hurricane (Full sized model of original aircraft lost in a hangar fire)
• Fairey Firefly MK.5
• Hawker Sea Fury

Trainers/transports

• Avro Anson V
• Beech D18S Expeditor
• Cessna T50 Crane
• Douglas DC-3 Dakota
• Grumman G-44A Widgeon

Jet fighters

• Canadair CF-104 Starfighter
• Lockheed T-33 Silver Star
• De Havilland Vampire
• Lockheed CF-104D Starfighter
• McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo
• Canadair CF-5 Freedom Fighter
• Avro CF-100 Canuck
• Canadair Sabre

Bombers

• Avro Lancaster
• Consolidated PBY-5A Canso
• Bristol Bolingbroke
• North American B-25J-35NC Mitchell 45-8883
• TBM Avenger^[3]

Anti-submarine

• Grumman CSF-2 Tracker

Observation

• Fairchild F-24R Argus

Army co-operation

• Westland Lysander III
• Auster Beagle

Single engine trainers

• Boeing Stearman PT-17 Kaydet
• de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk
• de Havilland 82C Tiger Moth
• Fairchild PT-26B Cornell
• Fleet Finch
• Fleet 21K
• Fleet 60K Fort
• North American Harvard 4
• North American NA-64 Yale

Images

Avro Canada CF-100	CF-104 Starfighter and CF-101 Voodoo	Avro Lancaster	PBY Canso and Avro Anson
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum logo	CF-104 Starfighter	Mynarski Memorial Avro Lancaster	North American B-25J-35NC Mitchell
Sabre Mk VI cut-away display

Affiliations

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, OMMC and Virtual Museum of Canada.

References

See also

• List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage
• Organization of Military Museums of Canada
• Military history of Canada

External links

• Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
• Hamilton International Airport website
• Satellite picture

Canadian Forces Commander-in-Chief • Chief of the Defence Staff • Armed Forces Council Canada Command • Canadian Expeditionary Force Command • Canadian Operational Support Command • Joint Task Force North • Reserve Force Maritime Command • Land Force Command • Air Command

Coordinates: 43°09′35″N 079°55′30″W / 43.15972°N 79.925°W / 43.15972; -79.925 (Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum)