RCAF History Forum

[beech 18]

August 17, 2015

Moose47

Thank you for taking the time during your recovery to
post information about the Cessna Crane in the photo.

If you have other details about that aircraft they would
be nice to read about.

[Old Dog Flying]

Here's a 1:48 scale version of a Crane that we recovered from a farm near Weyburn, Sask. It is now rebuilt and in the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw.

Barney

[beech 18]

August 17, 2015

Old Dog Flying

That's a beauty.
Very nice.

[beech 18]

August 22, 2015

Old Dog Flying

Photo of the Cessna Crane that you mentioned in your post.
Taken at the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw.

Found on the web.
Photographer not known.

[beech 18]

November 04, 2015

Otter and two Beech 18 aircraft.
Not known where this was taken or the date of the photo.
Maritime Air Command is on the fuselage.

This was found on the internet.
The photographer is unknown.

[Moose47]

G'day Beechy

The photo was taken sometime between late May 1958 and the end of September 1962.

CSR-123 Otter s/n 3673, is from No. 103 Rescue Unit based at R.C.A.F. Station Greenwood, Nova Scotia, It looks like it should be parked in between No.'s 3 and 4 Hangars. I flew out of No. 2 Hangar.

The two Expediters are s/n's 1507 and HB135 from R.C.A.F. Station Greenwood's Station Flight.

Cheers...Chris

[Antique Pilot]

November 04, 2015

Otter and two Beech 18 aircraft.
Not known where this was taken or the date of the photo.
Maritime Air Command is on the fuselage.

This was found on the internet.
The photographer is unknown.

The Otter is serial # 28. It is currently registered to Air Saguenay.

AP

[fleetcanuck]

With great respect, would you two please get together and write a book!

[Moose47]

G'day

It will have to wait for a bit. I'm well into writing my second book of the year.

Cheers...Chris

[beech 18]

January 28, 2016

CH-113 Labrador in Winnipeg during the 1997 flood.

[palmer]

would love to join in these discussions but I dont understand computors too well My father was station electrician at all bases Calgary and South 39 to 46, based at @ #7 SFTS Macleod. I have 50 yrs private flying,and have landed at a lot of them with an ultralight. (now 80 yrs old)

[xsbank]

My father was RAF and RCAF during the war and for a short time after. Hurricanes and Spitfires mostly. He died in 1990 and we are just now selling the family home. There is an extensive collection of books mostly about that era and I am going to clear them out. If anybody is interested, pm me. They will have to be shipped and I don't know if they have any monetary value. Let's talk?

[palmer]

I have a couple of (mystery) BCATF bases that may of interest to historians. mmWhile doing an aerial survey of all WW2 bases South of Calgary (for an author of a book) I stumpled across and photographed the remains of one five miles Southeast of Claresholm Ab. I cannot find any reference to it in local history archives. It may have been named RCAF Woodhouse, but I do not know the number. I spent several summer hours there while my dad was babysitting me.

The other one I often flew over while obtaining ny pilots licence in 1958. It was located in Southeast Calgary at about what is now Deefoot Trail and 130th Ave S.E. No trace of it remains

[Moose47]

G'day

No. 2 Wireless School located at Currie Field in Calgary used No. 1 Relief Landing Ground at Shepard, Alberta. Shepard was also used by the R.A.F.'s No. 37 Service Flying Training School based at McCall Field in Calgary.

No. 15 Service Flying Training School, Claresholm had No. 1 Relief Landing Ground at Woodhouse, Alberta.

Cheers...Chris

[palmer]

Chris; Thank you for the information on Woodhouse.....Old memories
Regarding the pic of very old, dusty planes.. In about 1958 or 60, I was allowed a quick peek into Hangar 5 at Macleod. I am almost sure this what I saw. Lots of old dirty planes, fire tenders, ambulances,staff cars and trucks,all jammed together. And, over in one corner were about five or six almost NEW (Cessna?) observation planes also rammed into each other. The one I was allowed to sit in had about 28 hours on the clock.The radios had been torn out, and any visible wires or cables were cut. The photo looks like it ma have been taked through the window in the door.
Thanks again Palmer

[Moose47]

G'day Palmer

Can you describe the "Cessnas" for me. Were they single or twin, yellow or bare metal etc.

Cheers...Chris

[Shiny Side Up]

The other one I often flew over while obtaining ny pilots licence in 1958. It was located in Southeast Calgary at about what is now Deefoot Trail and 130th Ave S.E. No trace of it remains

Are you maybe thinking of the South Calgary triangle which is still there under the perpetually "closed" NOTAM?

The last vestiges of the triangle at Currie Barracks recently disappeared under a new cond complex. It was still visible as late as about 5 years ago. As I recall, its proximity to MRC (now MRU) was what spawned the aviation program, I can't remember if the private school there was absorbed by the college or some other arrangement, but the school operated out of there prior to its closure (the triangle's closure) and the school's relocation to CYBW.

[palmer]

There sems to be a great deal of confusion about the fields in South Calgary. I believe Currie Barracks and Lincolin Park were one and the same. The runways East of Dewinton are shown some maps as RCAF Dewinton,and others show it as South Calgary. Yes, a flying school tried to operate at Dewinton,and really tried to buy the land but failed. Last time I set down there it was a Drag Race facility.

[palmer]

Morning Chris...
Having terrrible time trying operate this GD machine. The planes I saw were single engine,army type bird dog observation planes Bare metal,no markings at all that I can recall. The term L-6 comes to mind. Lots of Plexy. At the time I was only flying PA-12s and Cessna 150s so not yet too familiar with types. I was reminded yesterday that the next hangar (facing East) contained a metal foundry so I suppose that is where they were headed. Total time 20 hours, factory to foundry. At the same time I was told that large bombers (Mitchells?) were being Quote,Belly landed into huge piles of sand and dragged away to be chopped up.
Thankfully, I was living in Watson Lake YT at the time and didnt have to witness the slaughter

[Moose47]

G'day Palmer

Sounds like they were Cessna L-19's. I find it strange though that they would have been in storage there if indeed that is what you saw.

The only other type of observation aircraft that comes close to that description would have been the Auster A.O.P. Mk. 6 and Mk. 7.

Cheers...Chris