RCAF Mobile Support Equipment (MSE): Cranes and Flatbed trucks
RCAF Mobile Support Equipment (MSE): Cranes and Flatbed trucks
(RCAF Photo)
RCAF crane being used to work on an RCAF Fairey Battle being used as a training aid as it has its wings clipped and the stubs sealed. Techs at work at various duties, No 6 Repair Depot, Trenton, Ontario. Multi-wheeled (Lorain) cranes like this were used to speed up RCA.F maintenance work. The Fairey Battle training aircraft is being moved out of the hangar, 3 Sep 1942.
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584388)
RCAF Lorain Crane, 23 June 1950.
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3586786)
RCAF Lorain Crane, 12 Apr 1943.
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3941005)
LST (Landing Ship, Tank) that carried RCAF unit HQ personnel with their equipment and vehicles to France in 1944.
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584198)
RCAF Lorain Crane, 25 Jan 1949.
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3586654)
RCAF mechanical lift used to move a Dakota engine, Norman Wells, NWT, July 1950.
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584180)
RCAF Crane No. 35-339 RE, 25 Jan 1949.
RCAF Rapier crane. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3581602)
(DND Photo via James Craik)
Lockheed CC-130 Hercules transport aircraft, with ground crew unloading a No, 444 Squadron Canadair CL-13 Sabre (Serial No. 23470), onto the back of a goose-neck flat bed 1964 Mack Superliner truck, at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario in the 1950s
(DND Photo via Mike Kaehler)
Canadair CF-104 Starfighter (Serial No. CF-104 12761) being transported on the back of a goose-neck flat bed 1964 Mack Superliner truck.
(RCAF Photo)
Crane used to make an engine change on Canadair CP-107 Argus (Serial No. 10712).
(CF Photo via Mike Kaehler)
McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo (Serial No. 101048), No. 425 Sqn being lifted by a Letourneau crane after it turned off the runway too fast and its nose wheel collapsed. Hangar 6 in the background The crane was nicknamed "Dino" after the Flintstones cartoon show. Cranes purchased for the RCAF ca 1976-77.
(CF Photo via Mike Kaehler)
McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo (Serial No. 101048), No. 425 Sqn being lifted by a Letourneau crane after it turned off the runway too fast and its nose wheel collapsed. Hangar 6 in the background.
