Fly Past

September 2018 FLYPAST 15

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The Canadian Warplane Heritage

Museum in Hamilton, Ontario, was

visited by Richard G Wilsher in his DHC

T.10 Chipmunk WP833 on the weekend

of June 9 and 10. Richard is fl ying

the aircraft around North America to

celebrate the RAF’s centenary.

Richard, who has owned the

1952-built Chipmunk since 2010,

fl ew WP833 from his home base in

California to the Smithsonian’s Udvar

Hazy Center in Virginia for April’s

Great British Fly-In before moving on

to Canada. As we went to press he

was also scheduled to fl y to Oshkosh,

Wisconsin for July’s AirVenture event.

On June 9, the museum organised

an air-to-air photography shoot

alongside its own Chipmunk, the

former Royal Canadian Air Force

18035, fl own by Rick Rickards. The

camera ship was the attraction’s

Fairchild Cornell fl own by Tery Lebel.

The next day Richard and Rick fl ew

to Downsview, where DHC produced

over 200 Chipmunks in the 1940s

and 1950s. http://www.warplane.com

ERIC DUMIGAN

Chipmunk visits Canada

to mark RAF centenary

Richard Wilsher fl ying Chipmunk WP

(nearest camera) alongside Rick Rickards

in 18035. ERIC DUMIGAN

The Prairie Aviation Museum in

Bloomington, Illinois is carrying out

repair and maintenance work on

Grumman F-14D Tomcat 161163

‘AJ-205’, and plans to give it a new

coat of paint.

The swing-wing jet was inducted

into US Navy service as an F-14A in

January 1981, initially fl ying with

VF-143. It went on to serve with

several other units, before being

upgraded to F-14D standard in 1991.

Four further postings followed

before it arrived with VF-213, its fi nal

operator, in October 2000. A large

crowd witnessed its fi nal landing at

Bloomington in April 2016 following

its withdrawal from military service.

Volunteers at the museum are also

working on Northrop T-38A Talon

60-549, which has been at

Bloomington on permanent loan

from Dayton, Ohio’s National Museum

of the USAF since 1993. The jet fi rst

fl ew with the USAF in early 1961,

serving with units at Randolph

in Texas, Tyndall in Florida and

Davis-Monthan in Arizona. It ended

its military days as an instructional

airframe at Chanute, Illinois, before

being transferred to the museum.

http://www.prairieaviationmuseum.org

TONY SACKETOS-WITH THANKS TO CAPT

DAVID WILSON

Tomcat and Talon

receive attention in Illinois

Grumman F-14D Tomcat 161163 is undergoing

repair work at the Prairie Aviation Museum.

Capt David Wilson working on Northrop

T-38A Talon 60-549. BOTH TONY SACKETOS

Museum unveils Spitfi re-themed artworks

A new Spitfi re-inspired sculpture has been unveiled at the Potteries Museum in Hanley, Staffordshire. The full-scale artistic rendition was built by

apprentices of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s KMF Precision Sheet Metal company, and is based on a 1:6 scale paper version by artist Suhail Shaikh which

is also on display. http://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag

Argentine FMA Pucará

to be displayed as monument

FMA IA 58 Pucará A-577 is to be unveiled in the Argentine town of Campana, within the

province of Buenos Aires. Although the type remains in service, several of the country’s

older airframes are now being used as ‘gate guardians’ or being allocated to museums.

FAA VIA JUAN CARLOS CICALESI