Canada Aviation & Space Museum: Pitcairn-Cierva, Quickie 1, Spectrum Beaver, Stearman Junior Speedmail, Stinson Reliant, Stitts Playboy, Taylorcraft Cub, Travel Air, WACO 10, Wills Wing, Zenair Tri-Zenith CH-300

Canada Aviation and Space Museum,

Musée de l'Aviation et de l'Espace du Canada,

Pitcairn-Cierva PCA-2, Quickie 1, Balloon of Peace, Spectrum FX550 Beaver, Stearman Junior Speedmail, Stinson SR-10 Reliant, Stitts SA-3A Playboy, Taylorcraft E-2 Cub, Travel Air 2000, WACO 10 GXE, Wills Wing XC-185 Hang Glider, Zenair Tri-Zenith CH-300

The aircraft on display in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, 11 Aviation Parkway in Ottawa are listed here in multiple parts.

The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document every historical Warplane preserved in Canada. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are by the author unless otherwise credited. Any errors found here are by the author, and any additions, correctons or amendments to this list of Warplanes in Canada would be most welcome and may be e-mailed to the author at [email protected].

(NACA Photo)

Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro, NACA44.

Pitcairn-Cierva PCA-2 autogiro, (Serial No. 8), NC2624.

Quickie Aircraft Corporation Quickie 1 (Serial No. 1001), C-GGLC.

Rosie O’Grady Balloon of Peace (Serial No. 111), N53NY.

Spectrum FX550 Beaver (Serial No. SB2331), C-IGOW.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3642967)

Junior Speedmail, CF-CCH, Controller of Civil Aviation, Oct 1934.

The Stearman 4 is an American commercial biplane that was manufactured in the 1920s by Stearman Aircraft. They were marketed at the time as fast and luxurious executive transports and mail planes for about US$16,000. Stearman Aircraft developed the Model 4 from the C3, adding a deeper fuselage and offering a range of more powerful engines. These features enabled the Model 4 to carry heavier cargo loads. Being larger than the C3, but smaller than the M-2 and LT-1 models, it filled a gap in the Stearman product line. Designer Lloyd Stearman said that it was the best airplane he ever designed. Heaters were provided for both cockpits.

In Canada, Trans-Canada Air Lines (later Air Canada) bought one Stearman HEM - CF-ASM and two L10a CF-AZY, CF-BAF from Canadian Airways for pilot training and surveying new routes and were used from 1937 to 1939. One of them was sold in March 1939. (Wikipedia)

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3579251)

A lot of post-First World War pilots were hired by the Canadian government to support Relief Projects during the depression years between the two world wars. The first plane to land at the site of one of these projects was this Stearman 4C Junior Speedmail, CF-CCH, flown by Squadron Leader Trudhope, September 1935.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3391019)

Stearman 4EM 'Junior Speedmail' aircraft CF-AMB of Canadian Airways Ltd. Taken 1930-1933.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3579027)

Another view. This aircraft was purchased by the Canadian government for airways inspection and training where it served with the D.N.D.'s Controller of Civil Aviation. The other Model 4C was CF-CCG. CF-CCH was later re-registered as CF-BSQ and ended up being sold in the United States after being owned by the following Canadians in chronological order: L. Coughtry, P. Page and L. Fletcher. It has been suggested that the new owner, Charles Babb Incorporated of California turned the aircraft into a crop duster. (Chris Charland)