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Re: Dunnville (Ontario) museum

Posted by Steve T on Sat Jul 26, 2003 11:24:32 PM

In reply top Re: Dunnville (Ontario) museum posted by Al on Fri Jul 25, 2003 10:00:24 PM

Hi Al--

: It's nice to see an airport opening these days instead of
: the opposite, especially one in our area.

Yep! The Stoney Creek field is "hopping" lately too.

: I think I saw the Tracker there last summer but I can't re
: member what condition it is in. Can you refresh my memory
: ?

RCN 1562 was one of four CS2Fs recovered from storage at CFB Borden by Phil Nelson circa 1995. All four were stored for a time in what was then Phil's bay of the Brant Aero hangar at Brantford (ie. Aero-Composites Canada); two later went to TAM, one to CWH, and the fourth one ended up in the museum hangar bay at Dunnville but is not owned by the museum. When I saw it at Dunnville during the airport's grand reopening fly-in (which BTW was in 2000, not 1999 as I had stated before) it was intact and still in the old RCN double-grey livery. On the more recent visit, the outer wings and one of the engines had been removed and there was even more dust on the airframe than before. No one I've talked to seems to know who now owns this Tracker. (A second "mystery" of sorts is the disappearance of RCN 1545, the second TAM bird. 1600 is still at TAM at last word, and of course 1577 is statically restored at CWH, but 1545 has disappeared.)

: I thought that the Harvard infront of the library had been
: removed, but I guess that was just for a spruce up?

As Mr Scholfield's note passed on by Eric says, 2766 has indeed been removed from the pole, in 1999, for display at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa (seeing it there was a considerable surprise!), and on return underwent a fine cosmetic restoration before remounting in 2000. I've seen 2766 a number of times since about 1980 and she has always looked in superb condition, especially for a pylon airframe.

: Maybe Ed Russell can base his museum there instead of Well
: and? I was at Welland Airport the other day and there's n
: othing rising up to house any type of collection. I thou
: ght that the new facilty was suppose to be ready in August
: ? :-)

Interesting idea. What I mainly continue to hope re Mr Russell is that he exercises patience and discretion in his workup to flying "Mad Mickey". We've taken in far, far too much sad news these past few seasons...BTW I've daydreamed about basing my own collection at Dunnville since it reopened--but I think a BCATP hangar would be rather overwhelming surroundings for a bunch of 1:72 styrene fighters...! :-)

Cheers

S.

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