Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum

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The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is an aviation museum located at Brandon Municipal Airport, Brandon, Manitoba. It is dedicated to the memory of the airmen from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, who trained at World War II air stations across Canada. The museum in stage 1 of redevelopment, which will see it restored to include the main hangar, medical building, chapel, H-hut aircrew barracks, motor pool building, canteen and interpretive center.

The museum contains several World War II aircraft, displays of navigation, pilot, bombardier, ground crew and transport equipment, various artifacts and a gift shop. The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.^[1]

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  Bolingbroke at CATPM

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  Westland Lysander at CATPM

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  Fairchild Cornell at CATPM

Affiliations

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

See also

• Organization of Military Museums of Canada
• Military history of Canada
• History of the Royal Canadian Air Force

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum.

• Official Museum Website
• History of the Canadian Forces Museums 1919-2004

Coordinates: 49°54′14″N 99°56′34″W / 49.9038°N 99.9427°W / 49.9038; -99.9427