Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park

Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park
	British Commonwealth Air Training memorial at the Air Park
Established	1975; 50 years ago
Location	17 Wing
Coordinates	49°53′24.36″N 97°14′10.68″W / 49.8901000°N 97.2363000°W
Type	Air museum
Public transit access	24 Ness Express; 83 Unicity - Strauss Drive - Murray Industrial Park

The Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park, in Winnipeg, Manitoba displays aircraft and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force.^[1] The park contains memorials to Canadian air search and rescue, to aircraft maintenance personnel, and to the people who trained under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The museum was established in 1975. Memorials in the park were dedicated in 1999.

The air park has a large permanent display of Canadian military aircraft on the ground and mounted on pedestals. The indoor portion in the Bishop Building of 1 Canadian Air Division has artifacts such as aviation art, displays highlighting the seven Victoria Crosses awarded to Canadian Airmen, including the posthumous awards to Andrew Mynarski and David Hornell, and one of the remaining Battle of Britain lace tapestries.^[2]

Outside on static display are:

Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck 100784
Beechcraft CT-134 Musketeer 134228
Bell CH-136 Kiowa 136248
Canadair CF-5A 116749
Canadair CX-144 Challenger 144612
Canadair CL-13B Sabre 23605
Canadair CT-133 Silver Star 133186
Grumman CP-121 Tracker 1551
Canadair CF-104 Starfighter 104753
McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo 101008
North American Harvard (Canada Car and Foundry Mk IV) 20301

Inside the base, on static display are:

On loan to the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada

Canadair CT-114 Tutor 114004
de Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo 115462

The park also displays the antenna from an AN/FPS 508 search radar from the Pinetree Line.

References

^ Air Force Heritage Museum, retrieved July 31, 2017
^ Harold A. Skaarup, Canadian Warplanes, iUniverse, 2009 ISBN 1440167583, page 456

External links

Story Telling in Lace: Battle of Britain Tapestries, retrieved August 1, 2017*Battle of Britain Artefacts Honour RCAF Heritage, retrieved August 1, 2017

[1] Air Force Heritage Museum, retrieved July 31, 2017

[2] Harold A. Skaarup, Canadian Warplanes, iUniverse, 2009 ISBN 1440167583, page 456

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v t e Canadian aviation museums
Alberta	Alberta Aviation Museum Bomber Command Museum of Canada Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame Cold Lake Air Force Museum The Hangar Flight Museum Reynolds Museum
British Columbia	British Columbia Aviation Museum Canadian Museum of Flight Comox Air Force Museum
Manitoba	Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park Canadian Starfighter Museum Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Manitoba Military Aviation Museum Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada
Nova Scotia	Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum Greenwood Military Aviation Museum Shearwater Aviation Museum
Newfoundland and Labrador	North Atlantic Aviation Museum
Ontario	Canadian Air and Space Conservancy Canada Aviation and Space Museum Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Great War Flying Museum Jet Aircraft Museum Memorial Military Museum National Air Force Museum of Canada
Quebec	Quebec Aerospace Museum Montreal Aviation Museum Musée de la Défense aérienne Vintage Wings of Canada
Saskatchewan	Western Development Museum
See also	List of aerospace museums

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