Good question. I am not sure which aircraft in the collection are maintained airworthy these days. I’ll see if I can find out.

This might help with the question about what flies at the CWH at Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada. I aksed Steve Tournay who lives in near-by Hamilton. He replied…

“Bobcat”? My, aren’t we the Yank today! 🙂 I’m hardly ever up at the
Hope anymore, but far as I know the flyers for ’06 are the same as last
year:

Lancaster
Canso
Firefly
Harvard
Stearman
Fury (Sandy T’s, not actually a CWH aircraft)

These plus perhaps the Beech 18. My understanding is that the DC-3 was
down most of last year. The Crane (Bobcat) was restored over a period
of nine years (1977-86) by Harry Smith and crew and first flew again in
fall 1986; it’s still nominally airworthy but I’m not sure how long
it’s been since it actually flew. Same general situation goes for most
of the other trainers. Far cry from the days when they had 40 airplanes
and all but the ones not completed yet were regularly flying…

S.

I replied to steve…

Would you mind if I past your reply into the thread?

And Steve responded…

Wouldn’t mind at all; you can even keep in the smartass remark about being a Yank, if you like! 😉 BTW I may have forgotten one flyer, the “new” (ex-Hank Dielwart) Chipmunk may have been active last year and with 2006 being the 60th anniversary for the Chippie, I’d bet they’ll have C-FBXK on the go this year too…

Of course there’s also the Lysander, but who knows when that will fly.

S.

So it looks like the Cessna Crane is not a flyer this year. Of course the best thing to do is to send the CWH and email if you want to be sure.

Mike

Thats quite a body of work there-no wonder it took ten years to scan them!

You are welcome!

I liked the Swordfish at Tilsonberg. Was it one of from the Ernie Simmons cache, coming home?

I hadn’t actually thought of it that way, but yes it was. You must be referring to the Tillsonburg show in 1994. It is a good venue for a small show. Too bad they stopped having them after 1994.

BTW… If you are interested in another Ernie Simmons Swordfish picture you can find some taken at the Canada Aviation Museum starting with this one…
http://community.webshots.com/photo/506474306/1510860267079452405RqXtPb

Regards,

Mike

Thanks gents, and you are welcome. If you intend to travel to that area, I could send you a copy of my notes so you can more easily find the sites. Just email me at [email]mrhenniger@hotmail.com[/email] and put something obvious in the subject line so I can fish you email out of the junk-mail folder (assuming of course you are not already on my list of contacts).

Mike

BTW…when in the area last week, I passed by “Jet Chevrolet” in Federal Way in the south Puget Sound area, just off I-5.
They have a Czechoslovakian MiG-21 parked in their lot. Something you don’t see every day.

If you wouldn’t mind could you email me directions. I don’t know if I will be getting out that way again, but it never hurts to be prepared.

Mike

I thought it might be something like that. I don’t know different turrets well at all, but I was thinking B-25, since it does not appear very tall at all.

The thing is, they don’t have a B-24 or B-25 in their collection. They do have a B-17 and B-29.

Mike

Thanks for all the welcomes gents. Looking forward to doing some reading and posting here.

Regards,

Mike