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Warplane Heritage Museum is updating it’s squadron of planes

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While the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum lost out on a chance to restore another Lancaster bomber, they still have plenty to get excited about. Within the next couple of years, volunteers will have three different Navy planes ready to take flight.

Lancaster bomber in Toronto would have looked nice next to one in Hamilton but Toronto city council decided it’s going to the B.C Aviation Museum instead. Another Toronto area plane in need of a home is an AVRO Arrow replica, covered up outside of the Pearson airport.

The actual Arrow project never really took off, the government cancelled it in 1959, and ordered the existing prototypes dismantled.

While the story behind the AVRO Arrow is interesting, Dave Rohrer doesn’t think the replica belongs in Hamilton.

“I believe that airplane, because it’s a replica, should be best placed in the National Airforce Museum in Trenton, Ontario”.

Rohrer is excited about a trio of planes currently being restored at the Canadian warplane heritage museum.

“The one behind me is the Canadian Navy Tracker flown off the HMCS Bonaventure. It was an airplane that flew coastal patrol and anti submarine warfare”.

Volunteers are also working on a Grumman TBF Avenger, and the World war 2 era Fairey Firefly.

When the tracker is ready to fly in a few years, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum will have the only trio of historic navy planes airborn in the entire country.

The planes will be painted in Royal Canadian colours and represent three different eras in the navy “fleet arm”.

 

 

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