Aviation visitors to Canada

Aviation visitors to Canada

(Eric Bentley Photo)

Boeing 314 visiting Shediac, New Brunswick in the late 1930's. The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the range to cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

(Library of Congress Photo)

The Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper (serial NC18603), circa 1939. This aircraft started the Transatlantic mail service. It crashed in Lisbon, Portugal, on 22 February 1943 and was written off.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 5275840)

American DH.4B biplanes, Dawson, Yukon Territory, 19 August 1920.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3579889)

American Douglas C-1 cargo/transport aircraft biplane, Ottawa, 24 Jan 1927.

(USAF Photo)

Douglas C-1 No. 79 (S/N 25-433) in flight, taken April 28, 1926. The C-1 was a single-engined cargo/passenger transport aircraft, powered by a 435 hp (324 kW) Liberty V-1650-1 piston engine, accommodation for two crew and six to eight passengers.

(USAF Photo)

Douglas C-1 No. 79 (S/N 25-433) in flight, taken April 28, 1926.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3580342)

Douglas O-2H observation plane, 6 Oct 1929.

(NASA Photo)

Douglas O-2H observation plane at the NACA Langley Research Center at Hampton, Virgingia, on 10 January 1934.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3204223)

Travel Air aircraft, Reg. No. NR1313, 'Texaco No. 13', flown by Captain Frank Monroe Hawks, 3 Jul 1931.

On 13 August 1930 Frank Monroe Hawks flew from Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California, to Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, in a record-breaking elapsed time of 12 hours, 25 minutes, 3 seconds. His airplane was a Travel Air Type R “Mystery Ship” named Texaco No. 13. It carried civil registration NR1313. Hawks’ Texaco No. 13 was the fourth of five specially designed and constructed racing aircraft produced by Travel Air Manufacturing Company of Wichita, Kansas. The company was founded by Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna, and Lloyd Stearman. The “Type R” refers to one of its designers, Herb Rawdon.

The Mystery Ship’s cruising speed was 200 miles per hour (322 kilometers per hour) at 1,950 r.p.m., and it had a maximum speed of 250 miles per hour (402 kilometers per hour) at Sea Level. It had an initial rate of climb of 3,200 feet per minute (16.26 meters per second). The service ceiling was 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) and the absolute ceiling was 31,000 feet (9,449 meters). The range at cruise speed was 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers).

One of the fastest airplanes of its time, the Type R set over 200 speed records. Frank Hawks’ Type R is in the collection of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.

(Author Photo)

Travel Air Model R Racer “Texaco Mystery Ship”, Reg. No. NR1313, in the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3580702)

The Northrop C-19 Alpha, 2 Oct 1931. The Alpha was a series of three aircraft purchased from Northrop by the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) in 1931. The Army version carried a pilot and four passengers. The Alphas were flown for several more years until being sent to training schools as subjects for maintenance and repair classes.

(NMUSAF Photo)

Northrop Y1C-19 (Northrop Alpha).

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3390563)

Ford Trimotor (Serial No. 7683( taking part in the inauguration of Canada-United States airmail service, St. Hubert, P.Q., 1 October 1928.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3390250)

Ford Trimotor (Serial No. 7683( taking part in the inauguration of Canada-United States airmail service, St. Hubert, P.Q., 1 October 1928.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3349142)

British R-100 Airship visiting, St. Hubert, Quebéc, Sep 1930.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3383406)

Unloading of airmail from Douglas DC-2 aircraft NC14925 of American Airlines Inc., St. Hubert, P.Q., 1938. The Douglas DC-2 was a 14-passenger, twin-engined airliner that was produced by the American company Douglas Aircraft Company starting in 1934. In 1935, Douglas produced a larger version called the DC-3, which became one of the most successful aircraft in history. (Wikipedia)

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3390229)

Douglas DC-2 aircraft NC14925 of American Airlines Inc. taking on airmail, St. Hubert, Quebec, 1936

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3643713)

Damaged Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk (Serial No. 35778 of the U.S. Army Air Corps at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, 23 January 1943.

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 5139894)

USAF Douglas C-124 Globemaster II (Serial No. 0-30047), heavy-lift cargo aircraft on a northern airfield, March 1968.

(Author Photo)

Douglas C-124C Globemaster II (Serial No. 52-1004), Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona.

(USAF Photo)

Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, 17th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Alaskan Air Command, Elmendorf AFB, unloading a de Havilland U-1A Otter, ca 1972.

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