Ka8.

And another K8b it is! In fact, it is my third (never say final!) K8, that I took to the scrapper’s last week. I bought it as a wreck with the vague notion to do it up, but it went for parts instead when I found out that of the materials and welding labour costs alone I could buy two airworthy ones… All good bits ended up with new owners though, and about half of the aircraft is now flying again on different K8’s (or will be soon).

And here’s the next challenge.

And the C-46 is C-GYHT, see http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search116.htm (scroll down a bit, fascinating link).

Third picture – captioned “Canada” is very obviously a Bristol Freighter. I presume this it is this one: http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740531-0 That is CF-QWJ which crashed on May 31 1974

Almost, but not quite. It is http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19560530-1 at Beaver Lodge Lake.

Number 7 is I would say a C-82, likely this one: http://www.ruudleeuw.com/crash-c82-n208m-tom_hird.htm

Is it a K13?

Difficult camera-angle for a shoulder-mounted wing. I would sooner say K7 or K8 with their high wings. My money would on the latter as it has the wooden wingtip skids under the wing instead of the K7’s semicircle grip.

it seems to have literally been unbolted and is complete with the brackets to attach to the cockpit. The paint is still original on the one site and it still has the flak holes and scars from the forced landing. There were more parts of the Typhoon at some point but unfortunately they were lost/borrowed/taken.

Yeah, it’s stunning. One side restored, the other original. If I remember correctly from the text at the museum (it’s been a long time), it had been ‘liberated’ by an enterprising local who used it for a shower cabin or something like that. There were other parts, mainly small bits found on site, or returned by locals long after the war to the museum. I remember the tail wheel tyre, and cockpit compass, amongst others. Sorry, no pics (lost in a house fire some years ago).

I remember seeing that rear fuselage in the museum at Twenthe AFB before that closed. At the time a nearby display also contained (by heart) a Typhoon droptank that had been locally converted to a mini-rowing boat.