August 2018 FLYPAST 115DHC-2 Beaver CF-MAA (manufacturer number 1500) wears its pre-delivery scheme, before
entering service with the Province of Manitoba Air Division, Winnipeg, from May 15, 1962. It went
on to serve the Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources, and now resides in the
Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada.
Although the RCAF had considered the British Jet Provost, French Fouga Magister and
American T-37 to replace its T-33 jet trainer, the home-grown CL-41 Tutor was eventually
selected, with 190 airframes ordered in 1961. More than 1,000,000 service training
hours were fl own in Tutors, and the Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team still fl ies
the machine.DHC-2 Beaver CF-MAA (manufacturer number 1500) wears its pre-delivery scheme, before
Above
Despite its offi cial moniker of Canuck, RCAF crews preferred their own nickname of the ‘Clunk’ for
Canadair’s CF-100. This example of the indigenous interceptor, with the serial 18390, was operated
by 423 All-Weather Fighter Squadron, based at Saint-Hubert, Quebec. The markings on the rudder
and engine cowlings were red and white.Above
Lockheed F-104A-15-LO served as an aerodynamic pattern aircraft for licensed production of the
F-104G for the Royal Canadian Air Force. It was fi tted with a 25% larger tail unit and powered
rudder, but not the arrester hook. Here, the aircraft (56-0770) lifts off from Lockheed’s Burbank,
California facility in 1961, with a belly-mounted Vicom reconnaissance pod.