New CFB Greenwood display
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- Location
- Nova Scotia
They were moving some a couple month ago.
I wonder how complete that Lanc is now. I was in servicing when it flew in from Torbay Nfld in 1964 - 65, then it sat and sat on the tarmac and nobody knew when it was going to leave. About a month later we found out that it was for display and we quit doing daily inspections on it. Sure looks a lot nicer than it did then in it’s faded Search and Rescue clothes. I haven’t visited this museum since about 2011, it’s sure nice to things looking so spic and span, they’re doing a great job.
A good candidate for another display aircraft would be our PM’s air taxi, it seems to be a hangar queen.
highlander
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- Location
- Newfoundland
Interesting to know.
I recall being at an air show at the Torbay airport around that time and was actually inside one of these planes.
A year or so later I was playing baseball in a field when these Lancs (there were 4 of them if I recall correctly) flew overhead; the last ones to have been assigned to the Torbay airport.
Nice to know that at least one of them still survives.
My old winger, Shorty (Bernard) Hazelton was a Flt Eng on the Lank’s in Greenwood back in the day. Probably around the same time as you were there on the servicing crew. He later went on the Argus and the 707 before retiring and going on the L1011 at Worldways. Quite a career and quite a guy.
The one that rests at the Bomber Command Museum in Nanton Alberta has a restored but not air worthy one with working RR Merlin engine.
“ More than 400 Lancaster bombers were built in Canada during the war and continued to be used by the Royal Canadian Air Force in photographic and marine reconnaissance roles until the 1960s.
Canada is home to 11 of the world's 23 remaining Lancaster Bombers.
There are only two in the world that are still airworthy.
One is in the UK, owned by the Royal Air Force, and the other is in Hamilton, Ont., owned by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.”
“ More than 400 Lancaster bombers were built in Canada during the war and continued to be used by the Royal Canadian Air Force in photographic and marine reconnaissance roles until the 1960s.
Canada is home to 11 of the world's 23 remaining Lancaster Bombers.
There are only two in the world that are still airworthy.
One is in the UK, owned by the Royal Air Force, and the other is in Hamilton, Ont., owned by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.”
There was 2 flying in the UK years ago but I’ve heard the second one had an incident and don’t remember what happened. It originally was stored at Villeneuve airport nw of Edmonton and was bought by a group from the UK in around 73, 74. It was prepped there and flown to Namao where it was hangered while getting it serviceable for the ferry flight to the UK. They must have had connections as they had the hanger space and access to maintenance stands and other equipment at their disposal. A few of us AF types were volunteers helping with their prep. I was a skydiver in those days and they were going to let me jump out of it on one of their test flights but DOT at the time nixed that plan, unfortunately. It did eventually make it to the UK unscathed.
ojo de aguila
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- Location
- Southern Alberta
I was in Nanton the first time they fired up all 4 at once. Sound great and running nice. The volunteers there have done a fantastic job. Very fitting they've erected Canada's only Bomber Command memorial.
- Location
- Nova Scotia
Alot of space would be required. Alot of our aircraft museums are small in NS. There are some displays inside but no way you get a Lancaster inside.
Popurhedoff and I visited the Greenwood museum when he was down last May. He was trying to see if there was anything 434 he remembers.
I mean the old 434 Squadron T bird at the gate is pretty worn out.
maple_leaf_eh
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I have never been even close to Greenwood, so the display is new to me. I was not expecting the Vertol, a Lancaster, nor a Neptune. Assuming the Aurora was pranged or long since TX'd like the C130. Glad to see the Base (err, Wing?) cares enough to honour its old war horses.
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Hamilton has one inside their museum and airworthy to boot.
Tell me about it...I volunteer at the BC Aviation Museum and we unfortunately have some aircraft outside. Hoping that we can build a new hangar sometime. But there maybe a very large aircraft arriving this summer that will need planning for........
We have a good amount of vehicles, some aircraft, and even artillery pieces outside, the dream is to have a hangar. Its really unfortunate because the vehicles/artillery/aircraft are slowly deteriorating and rotting away, then the problem of vandals, both 2 legged and 4
fat tony
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Too bad they could not take a page from Davis Montham air base and at least coccoon them for the Winter with dehumidifiers.
SAM & ACAM both have aircraft / aircraft engiines on long term static outside display. ACAM is currently working on a Canso that sat in the bush in Labrador for thirty years. It would boggle the mind to see it freshly restored someday after thousands of man hours of labour only to become a static outside display rotting to pieces, salt air and all.
SAM & ACAM both have aircraft / aircraft engiines on long term static outside display. ACAM is currently working on a Canso that sat in the bush in Labrador for thirty years. It would boggle the mind to see it freshly restored someday after thousands of man hours of labour only to become a static outside display rotting to pieces, salt air and all.
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- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Location
- Richmond, BC, CANADA
The Lancaster at Nanton, AB is restored, but not for flight aas there is no airfield there. Quite the story. All four engines are run up on her periodically.
The Lanc that was in Toronto in storage is now in Sidney, BC at theBC Aviation Museum being restored. Sadly Toronto broke all of the cast engine mounts as I recall.
The Lanc at Edmunston, NB (I recall stopping to see that one in the 1960s) is in Trenton being restored to go with their Halifax.
The two flying Lancs in the UK mentioned above included the Canadian one which was visiting from Mount Hope (Hamilton) .
"Just Jane" Lanc in UK can taxi but is being restored to flying condition. https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/lots-to-see/aircraft/lancaster
The Lanc that was in Toronto in storage is now in Sidney, BC at theBC Aviation Museum being restored. Sadly Toronto broke all of the cast engine mounts as I recall.
The Lanc at Edmunston, NB (I recall stopping to see that one in the 1960s) is in Trenton being restored to go with their Halifax.
The two flying Lancs in the UK mentioned above included the Canadian one which was visiting from Mount Hope (Hamilton) .
"Just Jane" Lanc in UK can taxi but is being restored to flying condition. https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/lots-to-see/aircraft/lancaster
