Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum

Great news Danny and thanks for the update. To my embarrassment, have been past the Museum many times without the time to visit. Must rectify that! Hope you can post photos of the Canso when completed.:)

answering the questions.

First of all Im sorry in being late reading this thread. My name is Danny Price and I am in charge of the CF-100 mk5 at the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum. Yes it is a Mk5 and its tail number is 18747. We do not have rocket pods for it. It did serve with AETE as a test aircraft. It does have camera ports in the gunbay area. Also it was at some point use for what we think was line scan radar test as there is a setup in the nose with aerials pointing straight down through a panel cut into the nose.

As for the Canso it will be finished in Eastern Provincial Airways colours. We do have both engines for it but they have bad internal damage do to oil starvation in flight. Thats the reason for the crash landing in the 50’s. It will be finished with 1 wing and both engines. It will stay inside and is in its final position in the museum.

Thanks
Danny Price
Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum

I hope she does get to stay undercover….the climate in NS is kinda hard on external airframes…

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From what I have heard is that they plan on keeping it in that building maybe with one wing off against a wall.

That does make sense..anyone know where the Canso will be displayed once put back together…they are kinda big 🙂

If you look carefully in the pic of the jet star you will see a PT6 and in behind it looks like a P@W 1830, I read some where that they where removed to reduce weight along with the langing gear,

Steve, thanks for the info on wingtip extensions!

While at the museum I read about a scary incident involving this particular Clunk – 18747. The ejection seats of both the crew rolled on their rails during flight, the back-seater ejected and the pilot stayed with the aircraft and returned safely to Bagotville!

I sat in the Clunk when I was there, great vantage point but a bit scary getting up there!!

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Re ACAM’s Canso, I vaguely recall seeing pix of it being recovered minus engines (one thinks they might have been salvaged previously)…a pair of TE R1830s shouldn’t be too hard to source though.

Re the CF-100, she is one of the few extant examples sporting the Mk.5 wingtip extensions; the tiptanks would not mount to the extensions, rather they would go onto the standard Mk.4-length wings instead. Rocket pods, though, could be fitted to the extensions as well as to the standard wingtips. I know of only one Clunk, Mk.5M missile-tester 18626 at North Bay, that has the pods fitted (and also the extensions). BTW ACAM’s Clunk Mk.5 had a one-off fitment of cameras on the underside…I forget the details but she’s a unique variant. And yes, she’s nicely polished…something CF-100s never were in service as they had a matt protective finish applied. The polished finish certainly looks superb for display though.

S.

I can’t remember!

Do they have engines for the Canso? I was at the museum in 2001 but I can’t remember the details..mind is going etc 🙂

I believe they are going to keep the Canso in it’s Eastern Provincial Airways livery.

Great Pics Mike,,

The Avenger looks fantastic…

Can’t wait to see how the Canso will be be finished…any ideas of the scheme for it?

Andrew 🙂

I don’t know if they have them or not.

Mike Do you know if they have the tip tanks for it?

Thanks Peter,

It’s a great museum, packed full of very interesting displays and it’s one of my favourites. I had the place to myself too! Probably difficult to tell from my photo, but I think that the ACAM staff have done a pretty good job polishing their Clunk.

I’d love to see it with a pair of wing-tip tanks.

Nice Pics Mike! They have a very nice collection there! The CF101 looks in need of a bit of the old spit and polish though.

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