Alberta Aviation Museum
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The Alberta Aviation Museum address is 11410 Kingsway Ave., Edmonton, AB T5G 0X4. It is located onsite at the Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport CYXD on the SouthWest corner of the field.
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[edit] Hours of Operation
The Museum operates daily with the only exceptions being Christmas Day and New Years Day. Admission may change so please check their website. Alberta Aviation Museum
[edit] History
[edit] Museum Idea and Funding
[edit] History of the Hangar
The Alberta Aviation Museum Hangar is the last remaining example of a 'double-double' BCATP hangar. These hangars, built for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan across Canada, were made of pre-cut wooden timbers of BC Fir. They could be built as single units, double units, and the 'double-double' which is 4 units.
Built in 1940-41 after 3 double hangars for RCAF Edmonton, it was originally the maintenance hangar for #16 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) and #2 Air Observers School (AOS). After the USA entered the Second World War it was used to service USAAF aircraft heading to Alaska until the new USAAF base opened in Edmonton. Postwar it used by 418 (City of Edmonton) Reserve Squadron, Pacific Western Airlines and for DEW Line construction before becoming a car dealership in the early 1960s.
Known in Edmonton as "The Hangar on Kingsway", it has been designated 'M' Hangar, Hangar #6 and later Building #14 by the Edmonton City Airport. It is now a designated Municipal and Provincial Historic Site.
[edit] Current Aircraft
[edit] Static Displays
- Avro Anson Mk II
- Avro Avian (replica, on loan from Fort Edmonton Park)
- Avro CF-100 Canuck Mk.5
- Barkley-Grow T8P1
- Beech D18S
- Canadair F-86 Sabre MK I
- Canadair T-33 Silver Star
- Cranwell CLA-4 (In Restoration)
- Curtiss 1918 'Stinson Special' (replica)
- De Havilland Cirrus Moth (on loan from Reynolds Alberta Museum)
- De Havilland DH 82C Tiger Moth
- De Havilland Mosquito MK B35
- De Havilland Vampire Trainer
- Douglas C-47 (on loan from Buffalo Airways)
- Ercoupe C.D.
- Fairchild 71C CF-ATZ
- Sindgler Hurricane (5/8 Scale Hawker Hurricane)
- McDonnell Voodoo
- Noorduyn Norseman MK V
- Stinson Reliant SR9FM (Under Restoration)
- Vickers Viking MK IV (replica)
- Waco Model UIC
- Westland Lysander (2/3 scale flying replica)
- Boeing 737-200 in Pacific Western Airlines(PWA) livery C-FIPW (Fleet #745)
[edit] Restoration Projects
Currently (December 2006) the Museum is working on restoring a Bell 47G helicopter, a Stinson Reliant (CF-OAY) and a B-25 Mitchell bomber. Work is also being done to half-cover the Cranwell CLA.4 aircraft with fabric. The Scale Hurricane and an Ercoupe are being returned to airworthy condition. A separate group, the Ventura Memorial Flight Association, is also on the same site restoring a Lockheed Ventura GR.V patrol aircraft (RCAF #2195, CF-FAV) to flying condition.
