Canada Aviation & Space Museum: AEA Silver Dart replica

Canada Aviation and Space Museum Musée de l’Aviation et de l’Espace du Canada (Avro to Bristol) The Canada Aviation and Space Museum is located at 11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, Ontario. The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document every historical Warplane preserved in Canada.  Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for … Read more

Canada Aviation & Space Museum: German AEG G.IV First World War biplane bomber

Canada Aviation and Space Museum Musée de l’Aviation et de l’Espace du Canada AEG G.IV The Canada Aviation and Space Museum is located at 11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, Ontario. The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document every historical Warplane preserved in Canada.  Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these … Read more

Canada Aviation & Space Museum: Aeronca, Airspeed, Auster, Bellanca, Benson, Bleriot, Boeing, Bomarc, Bombardier, Borel, and Bristol aircraft

Canada Aviation and Space Museum Musée de l’Aviation et de l’Espace du Canada Aeronca, Airspeed, Auster, Bellanca, Benson, Bleriot, Boeing, Bomarc, Bombardier, Borel, Bristol The aircraft on display in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, 11 Aviation Parkway in Ottawa are listed on this web stie in four parts. The aim of this website is … Read more

Canada Aviation & Space Museum: Avro 504K, Avro 616 Avian, Avro 652A Anson, Avro 683 Lancaster, Avro CF-100 Canuck, Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, Avro C.102 Jetliner

Canada Aviation and Space Museum Musée de l’Aviation et de l’Espace du Canada Avro The Canada Aviation and Space Museum is located at 11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, Ontario. The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document every historical Warplane preserved in Canada.  Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft … Read more

German Warplanes flown by RCAF Wing Commander Joseph C. McCarthy, DSO, DFC & Bar, and RCAF Squadron Leader Ian Somerville

(RAF Photo) Arado Ar 232B-0 (Wk. Nr. 305002) A3+RB,  previously flown by the Luftwaffe’s “Special Duties” unit, KG 200 and captured at Eggebek in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.  This aircraft was designated RAF AM17 and pressed into service to ferry spare parts from occupied Europe to Farnborough, often flown by RCAF Squadron Leaders Joe McCarthy and Ian … Read more

Book Reviews

Reviews Book is a comprehensive guide to artillery monuments Michael Staples, THE DAILY GLEANER, Telegraph Journal, 21 June 2012 CFB GAGETOWN – A retired army major from Canadian Forces Base Gagetown is releasing his second military-related book in less than a year.  Harold Skaarup has just completed Shelldrake: Canadian Artillery Museums and Gun Monuments, the … Read more

Black Military History in Canada’s Maritime Provinces

Black Military History in Canada’s Maritime Provinces (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3194350) Three West Indian soldiers in a German dugout captured during the Canadian advance east of Arras, France in October 1918. Black Military History in the Maritimes The tradition of military service by black Canadians goes back long before Confederation. Many … Read more

Black Military History in Canada: Captain of the Foretop William Hall, Victoria Cross

Captain of the Foretop William Hall, VC Data courtesy of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. William Hall wearing his four medals, the Victoria Cross, the Crimean War medal with Inkerman and Sebastopol clasps, the Turkish Medal, and the Indian Mutiny Medal with Lucknow clasp. William Hall was the first Black person, the first Nova … Read more

Warplanes of the USA: Boeing XB-39 Superfortress, USAAF

Boeing XB-39 Superfortress (USAAF Photo) Boeing XB-39 “Superfortress” (Serial No. 41-36954), 1944. The Boeing XB-39 Superfortress was a United States prototype bomber aircraft, a single example of the B-29 Superfortress converted to fly with alternative powerplants. It was intended to demonstrate that the B-29 could still be put into service even if the first choice of … Read more

Book: Canadian Second World War Cap Badges, York Sunbury Historical Society, Fredericton Region Museum Collection

Frequently Bought Together Book Details Photos and the history of Canadian Second World War Cap Badges held in the York Sunbury Historical Society, Fredericton Region Museum Collection, New Brunswick Format: Hardcover Number of pages: 568 Publication date: 4 February 2025 Publisher: Gotham Books Language: English Appropriate for ages: All ages ISBN: 9798348494032 Category: canadian-military-history 🛒 … Read more