Toronto Aerospace Museum

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The Toronto Aerospace Museum is an aviation museum at the Parc Downsview Park in Downsview, Ontario, Canada, located at the northern end of the City of Toronto. The museum, founded in 1977 is open year round and part of the Parc Downsview Park complex.

The history of the building the museum goes back to fabric and wire biplanes of the 1920's. The building was the original home of de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. It is also the oldest aviation building in the Greater Toronto Area and the oldest surviving aircraft factory in Canada.

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[edit] Collection

[edit] List of Aircraft displayed

  • Avro CF-105 Arrow Replica Project
  • Avro Lancaster FM104 Restoration Project
  • DH82C Tiger Moth
  • De Havilland CS2F Tracker
  • Fleet 80 Canuck
  • Beechcraft CT-134 Musketeer
  • Ornithopter Project
  • CT-133 Silver Star
  • SHARP (Stationary High-Altitude Relay Platform)
  • Easy Riser Ultralight
  • Ultimate 10-100 Aerobatic Biplane
  • Found Brothers Aviation FBA-2A
  • Canadair CT-114 Tutor
  • Zenair Zenith CH200
  • Stinson Reliant

[edit] Engine Collection

  • Orenda
  • Rolls-Royce Derwent
  • Iroquois Jet Engine replica
  • Gipsy Major
  • Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp
  • Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr
  • Alvis Leonides

[edit] Simulators

  • Link C8 Trainer
  • Air Canada Viscount Simulator

[edit] Art gallery

  • The First DH82C Tiger Moth original oil painting by Charles Kadin, 1998.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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