Vintage Wings of Canada

[Old Dog]

I made a trip up to Ottawa last weekend for a get together with some fellow large scale train buddies and while there met a gentlemen who was a volunteer at Vintage Wing of Canada. He offered to take me there for a private tour and obviously I jumped at the opportunity. I wish I had known in advance as I only had my pocket shooter with me. The collection is housed in a reproduction of a 1930s designed hanger and I swear you could eat off the floor. The collection is all owned by one man and all with the obvious exception of the aircraft under restoration, are all flyable.

P-40

Corsair

All of the planes are dedicated to famous Canadian flyers

CF-86

Fairey Swordfish

Spitfire, sorry, a bit too much back lighting on this one

Hurricane under going restoration

A fully restored Hurricane

A Fleet Finch (a new one on me)

Spitfire being restored

PT-26B

They also had a most unusual civilian aircraft a DeHavilland DH-83 Fox-Moth but my photo turned out blurry, you can see it here Fox-Moth

Lots of better photos can be seen at their website Vintage Wings of Canada

 

[Swordsman]

Looking Good ... Gary what about the Choo-Choo's ... great photos thanks for sharing ..... :train

 

[lupanzer]

Fantastic Gary!...thanks for posting

Luiz

 

[Old Dog]

Gerry I have a few train photos I can post if anyone wants to see them. I'll start another thread. The fellow that hosts the event has his back yard filled with layout. It's designed for operations rather than appearance so it's not all that scenic. The operations are choreographed by a computer. You chose a train and are given a switch list which tells you what to drop off or pick up at different locations. A dispatcher is used and two way radios for communications. You must contact the dispatcher for permission to move between locations. No track power, all radio controlled locomotives. No fast clock so there is no pressure to hurry. They have a complete set of standard gauge cars (1/29) and narrow gauge cars (1/20.3, 1/22.5 and 1/24) They run standard gauge one day and narrow gauge the next, usually two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Great fun, it's a yearly event, this year was my fourth trip up.

 

[moon puppy]

I could never be rich, I'd spend it all on this type of stuff. Great pictures Gary!

 

[SA Dave]

Wow what a fantastic piece of luck for you Garry

And anything with ChooChoo's makes Gerry happy

 

[RichB]

The Golden Hawk photos is a Sabre Mk. 5 (known as a CL-13 to Canadair). At that time we followed the British aircraft naming convention. The Sabre was retired before the two letter, three number Type designation was adopted (ie CF188).

The photo labeled PT-26B is a DHC-1B Chipmunk. Under the new ID system the Chipmunk became the CT-120 and that airframe was renumbered to 12028 in 1970.

Cheers,
Rich

 

[phantom II]

I could never be rich, I'd spend it all on this type of stuff. Great pictures Gary!

Wow , great find Gary Thank you for posting.

I agree Bob. I could not even spend the money necessary for the backyard RR. either , much less the airplanes .

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[Old Dog]

Thanks for the corrections Rich, on the Chipmunk I was only going by the description on their website.

 

[Sherman 18]

Thanks for sharing!