Canadian Warplanes (7) New Brunswick
Warplanes in New Brunswick
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 to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are by the author unless otherwise credited. Any errors found here are by the author. French Translation of the technical data presented here would be appreciated. Corrections, amendments and suggested changes may be emailed to the author at [email protected].
Une traduction au français pour l'information technique présente serait grandement apprécié. Vos corrections, changements et suggestions sont les bienvenus, et peuvent être envoyés au [email protected].
Boiestown, Woodsmen Museum (BWM)
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General Motors (Grumman) TBM-3 Avenger (BuNo. 85733), Reg. No. C-GLEK, Forest Protection Ltd, Aircraft No. 14.
(Melynda Jarratt Photos)
General Motors (Grumman) TBM-3 Avenger (BuNo. 85733), Reg. No. C-GLEK, Forest Protection Ltd, Aircraft No. 14, on display at the Central New Brunswick Woodsmen's Museum, a Canadian forestry museum located in Boiestown, New Brunswick. The museum is located on a 15-acre site alongside Highway 8 and the Southwest Miramichi River.
Note: All Avengers operated by Forest Protection Limited (FPL), Fredericton Airport, 2502 Lincoln Road, have been sold.
Edmundston
Avro Lancaster Mk. X AR (Serial No. KB882), Goose Bay, Labrador, ca 1960. (RCAF Photo)
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Avro Lancaster Mk. X AR (Serial No. KB882), initially coded NA-R in 1945, on display at Edmundston in 2016.
Built in 1945 and delivered to No. 428 Squadron, RCAF, in March 1945 and flown to England. It was painted with the call sign NA-R. While in England before the war ended, it is documented as having flown on six operations over Germany (another source states KB882 flew eleven missions). KN882 was flown back to Canada in June 1945 and was placed in storage until 1952. It was modified to Mk. 10P configuration and equipped with state of the art SHORAN radar navigation equipment in 1952. It then flew with No, 408 Squadron, RCAF, on surveillance and mapping operations over Northern Canada until 1964, when it was flown to Edmundston and placed on display. The condition of this Lancaster has deteriorated over the years and it became financially impossible for the city to maintain it. Arrangements were made to transfer the aircraft to the National Museum of the RCAF at CFB Trenton, Ontario, for restoration and display. KB882 was still in its RCAF aerial mapping configuration when it was disassembled and moved CFB Trenton.
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Avro Lancaster Mk. X AR (Serial No. KB882), on display at Edmundston.
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Avro Lancaster Mk. X AR (Serial No. KB882), on display at Edmundston.
(Chris Colton Photos, 5 Oct 2017)
KB882, dismantled and prepared for transport to the National Museum of the RCAF, CFB Trenton, Ontario.
The Bomber Command Museum has provided a more detailed record:
KB882 was built by Victory Aircraft in Dec 1944 and flown to England on 24 Feb 1945. KB882 was issued to No. 32 Maintenance Unit (MU) and then assigned to No. 431 Bomber (B) Squadron (no code). It then went to No. 428 (B) Squadron, coded NA-R (the second Lancaster to have the NA code). KB882 flew on 19 Operations, and logged the following flying time overseas:
15 Mar 1945 - Hagen - Night (N) - 7 hrs, 5 min. 4 Apr 1945 - Merseberg - (N) - 9 hrs, 20 min. 8 Apr 1945 - Hamburg - (N) - 6 hrs, 5 min. 9 Apr 1945 - Upper Hayford/Base - 55 min. 10 Apr 1945 - Leipzig - Day (D) - 8 hrs, 30 min. 13 Apr 1945 - Kiel - (N) - 6 hrs, 5 min. 14 April 1945 - Church Broughton/Base - 40 min. 25 Apr 1945 - Wangerooge - (D) - 4 hrs, 50 min. 6 May 1945 - Cross country - (N) - 5 hrs, 15 min. 14 May 1945 - Cross country - (D) - 3 hrs, 45 min. 24 May 1945 - Cross country - (D) - 4 hrs, 40 min. 29 May 1945 - Cross country - (N) - 4 hrs, 35 min. 1 Jun 1945 - Middleton Ste.George to St. Mawgans - 2 hrs, 5 min. 6 Jun 1945 - St. Mawgans to Lagens, Azores - 8 hrs, 42 min. 9 Jun 1945 - Lagens to Gander, Newfoundland - 8 hrs 46 min. 10 Jun 1945 - Gander to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - 3 hrs 17 min.
KB882 returned to Canada with No. 428 Squadron, coded NA-R, with ''Rabbit Stew" painted on her nose. KB882 was one of the few aircraft with nose art. The crew that flew her back to Canada included Pilot (P) F/L A.L.Ross DFC, DFM, Navigator (N) F/O K.R.Fee DFC, Wireless/Observer (W/O) F/L. Aicken, Bomb Aimer (B/A) F/O E.K.Bergy, Flight Engineer (F/E) F/O R. Loveday, Air Gunner (AG) F/O Dan Ferguson, and (AG) F/O Bill Watson. KB882 then went into long term storage in Alberta. In Oct 1952 she was brought out of storage, designated as a Mk. 10MR (Maritime Reconnaissance) and flown to RCAF Station Comox, British Columbia. KB882 was ferried to A.V. Roe (Canada) for a major overhaul and was modified to the Mk. 10P (Photographic) configuration. The most noticeable alteration was the addition of a 40-inch extension to the nose section. KB882 was the second aircraft to be converted to Mk. 10P. She was issued to No. 408 (P) Squadron, coded MN882, at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, as part of Air Transport Command.
KB882's lengthened nose accommodated an AN/APS-42 navigation/weather radar. There was also a canister containing the UPD-501 passive intercept radar in the rear fuselage, and an extensive array of antennas for the radio. KB882's bomb bay was fitted with two long-range fuel tanks and a pannier for baggage and spares. Lancasters are credited with photographing the vast majority of the Canadian high Arctic in the late 1940s and 1950s. After a long and distinguished service career with the RCAF, Lancaster KB882 was honorably retired at Dunnville, Ontario. She was officially struck off strength (SOC) on 26 May 1964.
On 1 May 1964, the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation accepted a monetary offer from the City of Edmundston, New Brunswick, for the purchase of the aircraft. Shortly afterwards it was flown from DND No. 6 Repair Depot, Trenton, Ontario to Fredericton, where it waited for the Edmundston site to be completed. On 14 July 1964, Captain Joseph (Pepi) DiGiacinto, pilot; Flight Sgt Derek Miller, co-pilot; Gerry Flemming, radio operator; Captain Keith Wyatt, navigator and flight Engineer, Jim Cochrane brought KB882 in on her final flight. The crew touched down at the Edmundston Municipal Airport where she was mounted on a hardstand at St Jacques Airport in its last operational colours, (for a short while KB882 had been painted in wartime camouflage, coded NA-R "Rabbit Stew".
McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 17440), with two AIM-4D missiles under the fuselage, ca 1960s. (RCAF Photo)
Hillsborough
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McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101028), ex-USAF (Serial No. 57-00346).
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McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101028), ex-USAF (Serial No. 57-00346).
Miramichi, site of the former CFB Chatham
(RCAF Photo via Jean-Yves Duplessis)
Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk. 5, RCAF (Serial No. 23355), Golden Hawks.
(Alain Rioux Photo)
Once upon a time we had Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk. 5 (Serial No. 23355) in Golden Hawks colours mounted on a pylon down the street from where I lived. The base closed, and the aircraft was moved to Nova Scotia. 23355 is now on display inside the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum near Halifax Stanfield International Airport.
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Canadair CL-13 Sabre, one of the Golden Hawks flying out of CFB Chatham in the 1960s. This painting may now be on display in the Miramich Airport.
Mirimichi City
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McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101053), ex-USAF (Serial No. 57-0418). On the grounds of former CFB Chatham.
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McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101053), ex-USAF (Serial No. 57-0418). On the grounds of former CFB Chatham.
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4014845)
Moncton
McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo, Genie Missile, CFB Chatham.
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Avro CF-100 Canuck Mk. 5, (Serial No. 18551).
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Avro CF-100 Canuck Mk. 5 (Serial No. 18488), mounted on a pylon in Centennial Park, on Highway 2, at the West end of the city.
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Avro CF-100 Canuck Mk. 5 (Serial No. 18488), mounted on a pylon in Centennial Park, on Highway 2.
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Avro CF-100 Canuck Mk. 5 (Serial No. 18488), mounted on a pylon in Centennial Park, on Highway 2.
Oromocto, 5 Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, New Brunswick Military History Museum
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Avro CF-100 Canuck Mk. 5 (Serial No. 18767).
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Avro CF-100 Canuck Mk. 5 (Serial No. 18773), in service from 1958 or 1959, renumbered (Serial No. 100773). This aircraft served with No. 416 and No. 425 Squadrons out of Bagotville, Quebec. It was taken on strength by the Canadian Armed Forces on 1 Feb 1968 as Instructional Airframe as (Serial No. 814B). It went into storage at CFD Mountainview, Ontario in 1980, still carrying its RCAF serial number. It had 966 hours airframe time when stored on 12 Feb 1990. It was preserved at CFB Trenton, Ontario, until coming to 5 CDSB Gagetown in 2011.
A New Brunswick connection: No. 410 (City of Saint John) Squadron, RCAF, was the first squadron to fly both the CF-100 and the CF-101, although it is unlikely that they included these specific aircraft.
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Bell CH-136 Kiowa Helicopter (Serial No. 136216), No. 403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron, 1 Wing, 1 Canadian Air Division. The squadron is based at 5 Canadian Division Support Group Base Gagetown, New Brunswick.
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Bell CH-136 Kiowa Helicopter (Serial No. 136216), mounted on a pylon, 403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron, 1 Wing, 1 Canadian Air Division. 5 Canadian Division Support Group Base Gagetown, New Brunswick.
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Bell CH-136 Kiowa Helicopter (Serial No. 136216), mounted on a pylon, 403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron.
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Bell CH-136 Kiowa Helicopter (Serial No. 136216), mounted on a pylon, 403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron, 1 Wing, 1 Canadian Air Division. 5 Canadian Division Support Group Base Gagetown, New Brunswick.
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Bell CH-146 Griffon helicopter currently in service with 403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron, 1 Wing, 1 Canadian Air Division. 5 Canadian Division Support Group Base Gagetown, New Brunswick.
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Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk. 5 (Serial No. 23273), No. 1 OTU, CFB Chatham, New Brunswick, ca 1960s.
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Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk. 5 (F-86E), (Serial No. 23292), wreckage, vertical fin and landing gear. Recovered from a 1 Aug 1956 crash site found at 5 CDSGB Gagetown. This “Sword” was piloted by Flight Leader (F/L) Ian Gordon-Johnson, a Royal Air Force Exchange Officer flying out of an Officer Training Unit (OTU) based at RCAF Station Chatham, New Brunswick. F/L Gordon-Johnson was killed when his Sabre fighter-jet hit a tree early in the morning while low-flying on Exercise Morning Star over the base on 1 Aug 1956.
Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk. 5 (F-86E), (Serial No. 23292), wreckage, vertical fin and landing gear.
(DND Photo via James Craik)
McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101046) in flight.
(DND Photo via James Craik)
McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101046) in flight.
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McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101046), ex-USAF F-101B-95-MC (Serial No. 57-0384). This aircraft flew with No. 416 Squadron from 1975 to 1982. On May 1983 it became Instructional Airframe 817B. It was struck off strength on 12 Feb 1990. It is shown here on display at the Air Cadet Training Centre at CFB Trenton, Ontario, before coming to 5 CDSB Gagetown in 2011.
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McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101046), ex-USAF F-101B-95-MC (Serial No. 57-0384). This aircraft flew with No. 416 Squadron from 1975 to 1982. On May 1983 it became Instructional Airframe 817B. It was struck off strength on 12 Feb 1990. It came to 5 CDSB Gagetown in 2011.
McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo (Serial No. 101042), target on artillery range.
Saint John, New Brunswick Museum (NBM), 277 Douglas Ave, Market Square.
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Dr. Wallace Rupert Turnbull Exhibit.
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