Our local Lancaster, CWH’s FM213, spent 15 years in the open atop tall jacks at Goderich as a display airframe…thankfully she was not mutilated for placement on a pylon like some others, but still, returning her to flight was an epic project. Incidentally next year is FM213’s 20th anniversary as a flying restoration…

Not quite in the same vein, but Bf109G “Black Six” went from near-flyable static to (at long last) flying again…then back to near-flyable static!

S.

zTango–

The Zaleskys had two Mossie projects: FB.26 hulk KA114 (Canadian-built) and B.35 VR796/CF-HML (ex-Arctic survey). KA114 passed to Jerry Yagen, who is based in Virginia; it is now the project well advanced in NZ with Glyn Powell and is slated to fly upon completion. VR796 passed to Bob Jens of Vancouver, BC and is under longterm restoration, also to fly, in Bob’s hangar at Vancouver; for company it has Bob’s airworthy Spitfire XIVe TZ138/C-GSPT…You’re correct, also, about Glyn Powell’s first Mossie fuselage not being a flyer. To test the re-created fuselage molds, a fuselage was first laid-up in pine. That “test shot” (to use a plastic-kit term!) came to Canada to be incorporated in the Windsor (Ontario) Mosquito Bomber Group’s static Mossie project, which otherwise is based on the recovered remains of crashed survey B.35 TA661.

HTH

S.

Well that answers the rest of a question I had…

Couple years ago at a model railroad show (of all places) I bought a copy print (8×10 B&W) of a prewar-looking Scottish Airways airliner, the photo said to have been taken circa 1950 at Malton, Ontario (ie. what is now Toronto’s Pearson Airport). The scene was very plainly NOT Malton airport. Well, not the one in Ontario, anyway. Was stumped as to what type the airliner was but the reg G-AFZP was clearly visible, so I Googled that and found it to have been a Fokker F.XXII; and, almost certainly, the “Malton” of the photo would have been the “original” one, Malton, N Yorks!

Fascinating to hear the rest of the story. Didn’t realize so few of these four-engined Fokkers had been built, nor that some of them saw RAF service. Would scan and post the photo but for two obstacles: one, it’s copyrighted; two, I haven’t a scanner here.

Cheers

Steve T

Hi Tom–

Great strides have been made there since last I visited (’95)…glad to see it. The Barkley Grow looks superb (have only ever seen three of those, all of them during my ’95 trip to Alberta, and I gather that was pretty much all the survivors).

Noticed a hiccup on the website though: went to have a look at the Vega Ventura photo off the aircraft listing…that’s no Ventura, that’s the Mitchell!

S.

Hm!

Fairchild 24R Argus C-FGZL of CWH (now with Drake Andrews)
Avro Anson V C-FHOT of CWH (twice; still with CWH but grounded)
Beech 18 C-GZCE of CWH (still flying with them)
Douglas DC-3-202A C-GDAK of CWH (still flying with them)
Stearman A75 Kaydet C-FFRF (from the CAvM facility at Ottawa)
Lockheed 10A CF-TCC of Air Canada (now at WCAM, Winnipeg)
NAA SNJ Texan (N-number escapes me) of Mid-Atlantic museum, Reading PA

S.

Ben–

Re the idea of reincarnating a flyable TSR2, the same sort of thing was mooted over here in Canada not so very long ago; CF-105 archivist and author Peter Zuuring was attempting to put everything in place to get a flyable replica CF-105 built in time for the Canadian powered-flight centennial in 2009. The idea proved simply too wild, and foundered. I suspect the TSR2 replica concept would be received the same way…

S.

At least three access roads on and around Pearson airport in Toronto have aircraft names: Jetliner (commemorating the one-off Avro C102 which was built at what would become Pearson), Silver Dart (1908-9 AEA biplane that made the first powered flight in Canada), and Convair.

In another part of western Toronto there’s an Arrow Road, but I’m uncertain whether any reference to the CF-105 is meant.

Nearer my location, in Ancaster, not that far from Munro airport (Mt.Hope/Hamilton), there’s an Anson Drive. Annies did fly from the Hope during wartime when what is now Munro was RCAF station Mt.Hope, but the street in Ancaster isn’t so close that the connection is obvious…I think it’s likely a coincidence.

I shall now be keeping an eye open for aviation-related names on streets; even by coincidence, there should be a bunch! Fun thread topic.

S.