Reynolds Alberta Museum and Reynolds Aviation Museum, Wetaskiwin, Alberta

What a lot of toys

Great Stuff Papa 😉 , Wow it’s like the whole Airforce of a small country :p , Do any of these still do any flying :confused: , Seems a shame to be just gathering dust, Cheers all, Tally Ho! Phil. :diablo:

Great photo’s PL. I think I’ll have to go for a drive to Alberta in the next few months.

Cheers,

Todd

So can you do that in Canada; re-use registrations?

I checked CF-HML which used to be a Mosquito with Spartan. It is now an Aero Commander 112, so I guess the answer is yes! Same thing goes here in Norway. You can use a registration as many times as you’d like, given that it is vacant!

T J Johansen
Oslo, NORWAY

Nice pics.

Regarding the re-used reggie, I seem to recall two Spitfires wearing the same registration at different times (N8R?). Mark 12 – confirm? I’m probably wrong, though!

Reused reg’s

Peter et al–

Re CF-RAF, that, oddly enough, is not the only ex-Warbird civil registration to be seen on a Reynolds museum bird. In the main building is a Pietenpol (iirc) suspended from the ceiling, finished smartly in overall bright red, and wearing the registration CF-BDH…which once belonged to the first CWH Fairey Firefly!

S.

CF-RAF

On the death of Don Plumb the Spitfire was sold to a party in the US.

Perhaps when registered in another country and to a different owner, the Canadian registration can be re-used.

Mark

IIRC, it is airworthy!

I would guess that as the Stearman is grounded and in a museum, the civilian registration has been officially cancelled and can be reallocated to another airworthy aircraft. If the Stearman was made airworthy, then it would have to be re-registered. Only a theory?

Further to your question, this is the relevant extract from the Canadian current registrations register, allotting CF-RAF to the A75N1 c/n 755168 (the one in my photo):
” RAF”,”Continuing Registration”,”Immatriculation permanente”,”Boeing”,”A75N1″,”75 5168″,”755168″,”Boeing Airplane Company”,”Type Certificate “,”Certificat de type”,”Aeroplane”,”Avion”,””,””,””,”Piston”,”Piston”,”1″,””,”1451″,”N”,”2004/06/21″,”2004/06/01″,””,”Commercial”,”Commercial”,”Certificate of Airworthiness”,”Certificat de navigabilité”,”M”,”U.S.A.”,”ÉTATS-UNIS”,”1943/01/01″,”CANADA “,”CANADA”,”Alberta”,”Alberta”,”Wetaskiwin “,”A743 “,”Registered”,”Immatriculé”,”N”,”2004/06/21″,””,”Edmonton”,”Edmonton”,””,”RAF”

Good question, Mark12, but I have no idea what the answer is!

CF-RAF

Papa Lima,

Now here is a puzzle.

I noted CF-RAF on your shot of the ‘Looks like a Stearman’ biplane.

Don Plumb’s Spitfire TE308 was also CF-RAF back in 1971. It carried the full registration two shades up on the camouflage colour and was barely visible. The squadron code RA-F sort of made it legal.

So can you do that in Canada; re-use registrations?

Here is a shot on an early test flight on the 31st July 1971 out of Windsor, Ontario.

Mark

The u/c looks like that of a Sportster, Albert, I’ll give you that! The helicopter was supposed to be a prototype, but perhaps it was never finished! Probably a home-build but using Hughes parts as much as possible.

The blue aircraft appears to be a Rearwin Sportster 8500 and the helicopter a Hughes 269, but not sure about either.

Inside the adjacent Reynolds Alberta Museum, and the restoration facility

1. Curtiss JN-4 (Can) Canuck C.308, the first aircraft to fly at Edmonton. The Museum has painted its Canuck to represent a typical barnstorming aircraft of this period.
2. Curtiss D-III?
3. 1919 Reynolds Sports Monoplane or 1925 Reynolds Star Monoplane?

Inside the restoration facility (not open to the general public)

4. and 5. Dragon Rapide with original and restored sections next to each other.
6. 1940 de Havilland D.H. 82A Tiger Moth c/n 82270 N9151 C-GABB, formerly G-AOYU in RAF wartime trainer colour scheme.
7. Boeing Stearman Model A75N1 PT-13B Kaydet c/n 755168 serial 42-17005 marked 61046 N2S-5 (US Navy designation).
8. Not identified – Stinson?
9. Unidentified helicopter prototype
I would appreciate help with the unidentified items here!

I apologise for the deterioration in photo quality, caused by the need to drastically reduce the files to fit into the Forum size limit!

The Reynolds Aviation Museum

This is the Museum itself, which has of course a few aircraft still outside:
1. McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo “416” in 416 Lynx Squadron markings and CF-104 Starfighter 104763 “417”.
No. 416 Nighthawk squadron was an air defence squadron equipped with the CF-101 Voodoo interceptor. The squadron was based at CFB Chatham, New Brunswick.
104763 was one of the early Starfighters delivered to No. 6 Strike/Reconnaissance Operational Training Unit starting on 16 January, 1962, flying out of RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta. On 11 March, 1968 the OTU was re-designated 417 City of Windsor Strike/Reconnaissance Operational Training Squadron. This blue, white and red paint scheme was specially prepared for the 417 Sqn Colours presentation at Cold Lake on 4 June, 1983, in recognition of the Squadron’s 25 years of active service. A month later the same aircraft and livery were used for the Colours presentation and disbandment of the squadron in 1983, by which time over 750 pilots had been trained and some 140,000 hours had been logged in the air by the 104s of 417 Squadron.
2. General view inside the Museum. From front to rear: Replica Silver Dart (see also #230); red Beech D17S c/n 4849 CF-BKQ; 1941 Stinson Model 10 (without fabric); Canadian-built Hawker Hurricane 5418 (see also #695); Douglas DC-3 C-FIAE; 1928 American Eagle Model A-101 c/n 248 “Master of the Skies” CF-AHY; Avro Avian Mk IVM yellow biplane c/n 316 CF-CDV; North American Yale 3458.
The DC-3 began life as a C-47-DL c/n 4563 with military serial 41-18471. It is listed as having had an accident at Somerset, Kentucky. It entered civil service in the USA as N4877V. As C-FIAE it was used as a passenger cargo carrier by Shell Oil from 1955 until 1969 when it was purchased by the Alberta Government. Alberta Air Transportation Services used the DC-3 for general duties and to fly forest fire-fighters and their supplies into remote northern areas. There are a pair of 2,000 pound thrust rocket boosters on its belly. It has also been retrofitted with the “speed package”, the most prominent feature of which is the fully enclosed undercarriage, which improved aerodynamics and increased the top speed.
Originally owned by the Canadian Department of National Defence, Avro Avian CF-CDV was operated by the Calgary Flying Club from 1933 to 1939, and is one of only three surviving Avians.
3. Canadian-built Hawker Hurricane Mk XII, RCAF 5418.
4. 1936 Fleet Fawn Mk II c/n 58 RCAF 220 CF-CHF.
5. In the foreground, the 1928 American Eagle Model A-101 c/n 248 CF-AHY with 160 hp Kinner 5-cylinder radial engine, one of only three extant. Dominating the background is the DC-3, and hanging from the ceiling is Fiberlite Products Ltd amateur-built Viking 104 glider CF-REF.
6. From the top, Taylor Aircraft Company Piper J2 c/n 1064 CF-BEE; 1929 Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Mfg. Co. Robin C 1 painted as CF-ALZ; de Havilland D.H.87A Hornet Moth c/n 8031 CF-AYG; Travel Air 4-D c/n 1151 CF-JLW. At the right is a cream-coloured 1925 Lincoln Sport, probably C-GOXA, home-built by Maxwell A. Say.
Piper J2 CF-BEE is noted as having been damaged in a gale at Cartierville in September 1942.
The original Curtiss Robin CF-ALZ, c/n 405, was operated in Alberta and the North West Territories from 1930 to 1940 as a cargo and passenger bush plane. It was scrapped in 1941. The displayed similar airframe painted as CF-ALZ was imported into Canada in 1987 after service in the USA, and is the only Curtiss Robin in Canada, of the 760 built in St Louis, Missouri between 1928 and 1931.
The Hornet Moth CF-AYG was used as a mining exploration aircraft for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company from 1936 to 1947, operating year-round on wheels, skis and floats. It spent its entire working career in Western Canada and is one of only two surviving Hornet Moths in the world, out of 165 built. 1 pilot, 1 passenger, 130 hp, 130 mph.
7. Avro Avian Mk IVM c/n 316 CF-CDV.
8. Northwest Industries Ltd Bellanca 31-55A Senior Skyrocket CF-DCH, the Canadian prototype and the only complete Skyrocket remaining. 7 were built in the USA and 13 in Canada. They could be fitted with wheels, skis or floats.
9. 1936 Fleet Fawn Mk II c/n 58 RCAF 220 CF-CHF.
10. Canadian-built Hawker Hurricane.

Yes, it’s all very clean and tidy – two more batches of pix to come!

Oh wow! I was there in 1993 and all this lot was stored in a dark hangar then, with those unrestored outside exposed to the elements. This is now much better!