Canadian Airplanes: Biplanes of the Golden Age

Biplanes of the Golden Age in Canada

(City of Vancouver Archives Photo, CVA 99-1802)

Canadian Vickers-built Avro 504NS, Jericho Beach, British Columbia, 8 May 1928.  John Bowers and Marguerite De La Motte, Pantages stars.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3388157)

)Boeing C3 aircraft which inaugurated airmail service between Seattle, Washington., and Victoria, British Columbia, 1920.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3582154)

Boeing Stearman Kaydet, RCAF (Serial No. FD975), 29 April 1942.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3551367)

Mr. W. L. Brintnell [left] and associates with a de Havilland DH.60X Moth, Reg. No. G-CAIG of Western Canada Airways, Dec 1927.

Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3580128)

de Havilland DH.60X Moth, Reg. No. C-GYYP, c/n 491, with Mrs. C.H. Walker preparing for a flight, 18 Aug 1928.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3387976)

Avro 504N Wright TS Patrol AWS floatplane, RCAF (Reg. No. G-CYGK), Shirley's Bay, Ontario, 30 September 1925.

(City of Vancouver Archives Photo, AM1535-: CVA 99-2155)

Fairey IIIF Mk. IV G.P. floatplane (1), RCAF (Serial No. J9172), Jericho Beach, BC ca 1930.  This is the sole British-built Fairley III F to serve in Canada.  It was used for trials October 1929 to September 1930.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3575578)

Felixstowe F.3 flying boat of the Canadian Air Board, 5 Sep 1921.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3643587)

Curtiss HS-2L, G-CYDT, Canadian Air Board, Victoria Beach, Manitoba, 3 Aug 1921.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3383422)

Boeing 40B-4 aircraft of Western Airways Ltd. flying the Prairie Air Mail service, 1930-1932.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3232304)

Westland Wapiti Mk. IIA, RCAF (Serial No. 513), RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario c1938.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, 3199160)

Canadian Vickers Stranraer, RCAF (Serial No. 948), No. 6 (BR) Squadron, at its base at Alliford Bay, British Columbia.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3642468)

Avro 621 Tutor, (Serial No. 188), flown by No. 110 (AC) Squadron, Ottawa, Ontario, 19 Sep 1939.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3580539)

Fairchild KR-21, 15 Sep 1930.

The Kreider-Reisner KR-21-A was a 1928 American two-seat monoplane. It was designed and built by the Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company of Hagerstown, Maryland. Fairchild Aircraft took over Kreider-Reisner in 1929 and continued to build them, as the Fairchild KR-21, later the Fairchild 21.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3580733)

Curtiss Reid Rambler, with Hermes engine, 5 Dec 1931. The Reid Rambler, later known under the Curtiss-Reid brand after Reid was purchased by Curtis, was a trainer/sport aircraft built in Canada in the early 1930s and used in small numbers as a trainer by the RCAF.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3388064)

Beechcraft C-17R, Reg. No. CF-GKW of Pacific Western Airlines. The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative wing stagger (the lower wing is farther forward than the upper wing). It first flew in 1932.

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