RCA Museum Aircraft (Author Photo) Cessna L-19 Bird Dog (Serial No. 16706), shown here at CFB Petawawa, Ontario, ca 1977. (Clive Prothero-Brooks Photos) Auster AOP Mk. V (Serial No. TJ398). Recently acquired for the RCAM and flown to the museum in an RCAF Lockheed CC-130 Hercules transport from the UK. It is painted to represent … Read more
Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery Museum, British, French, Russian, Czech and Yugoslavian artillery (Terry Honour Photos) British 105-mm FV433 Abbot Self-Propelled Gun. FV433, 105mm, Field Artillery, Self-Propelled “Abbot” is the self-propelled artillery, or more specifically self-propelled gun (SPG), variant of the British Army FV430 series of armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs), using much of the chassis … Read more
(York Sunbury Historical Society, Fredericton Region Museum Collection, Author Photo) 1997.28.42. RCA badge, QC. CFB Shilo, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery Museum (Clive Prothero-Brooks Photos) American 155-mm M2 Gun “Long Tom” on Mk. I Carriage. Two batteries of the 59th (Newfoundland) Heavy regiment used these guns during the campaign in Northwest Europe. Canada purchased 20 … Read more
(York Sunbury Historical Society, Fredericton Region Museum Collection, Author Photo) 1997.28.42. RCA badge, QC. Artillery in Manitoba, CFB Shilo, Royal Canadian Artillery Museum The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document every historical piece of artillery preserved in Canada. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these guns to provide and … Read more
German Artillery and Machine Guns in the RCA Museum from the First World War (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3397945) German Artillery, trench mortars and machine guns captured by Canadians, East of Arras, France, Sep 1918. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3213520) German MG 08s being examined by LGen Julian Byng, … Read more
Japanese artillery in the RCA Museum (historicalfirearms Photo) Japanese 70-mm Type 92 Battalion Gun, a light howitzer introduced in 1932 (2592 in the Japanese imperial year, from where it takes its type “92”). Since every infantry battalion was equipped with two Type 92 guns, it was designated as Battalion Artillery (Daitaih?). An Imperial Japanese Army Division … Read more
Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery Museum, ordnance from between the wars to the Second World War (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3224682) 75-mm Field Gun mounted front and rear on a Canadian National Railway Armoured train, often traveling through Winnipeg during the Second World War, 15 July 1942. (RCAM Photo) U.S. Model 1917A1 … Read more
