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Re: Brantford 2003 photos
Posted by Mike Henniger on Fri Aug 29, 2003 09:36:40 PM
In reply top Re: Brantford 2003 photos posted by Tony Broadhurst on Fri Aug 29, 2003 07:45:35 PM
Hi Tony!
Thanks for the info and insight. You are the Cornell god!
Will be posting pics sometime next week, so look for a notice WIX.
Mike
: Mike,
: You are ahead of me on FV720/CF-CVT. When I saw it at Wel
: land in 1999 there was still a lot of work to do on it. I
: knew it had been registered again, but was not aware it wa
: s actually back in the air. I have seen no mention of FV7
: 20 on the CWH website.
:
: FV720, was one of the last Cornells completed by Fleet and
: the final seventy or so appear to have had no useful RCAF
: service, only storage. The record card gives TOS 22.9.44
: , but if, as we are told production finished in Spring 194
: 4 there leaves an unexplained gap. Some were stored by th
: e USAAF for a while, at Reading, PA, perhaps FV720 was one
: . In May 1947, FV720 was tranferred "Free Issue" to the R
: oyal Canadian Flying Club Association and later registered
: as CF-CVT to the Brandon Flying Club.
:
: One small correction to Bob Ogden's "Aircraft Museums and
: Collections of the World", which lists CF-CVP, ex-FV730 as
: being with the Collingwood Collection. On the 1999 trip
: I found the Cornell had gone from Collingwood and that the
: quoted identity had been incorrect. The aircraft the col
: lection had held was FV720/CF-CVT and it had moved to Well
: and Airport for restoration by Bruce McRitchie - which whe
: re I came across it the following day.
:
: You may well be right that this was the one involved in th
: e accident.
:
: As to why the CWH now fly three examples I cannot say, tho
: ugh according an article in the RCAFA magazine "Airforce"
: (Summer 2002) the Warplane Heritage was conducting a cours
: e of "refresher" flying for pilots more used to modern tri
: cycle aircraft using their Cornells and Harvards.
:
: If you photographed FV720 at the Ottawa Flight Fest I woul
: d be interested to see it.
:
: Many thanks for answering my query, Tony
:
: : : The CWH Cornell (I believe the registration is CF-CVT)
: th
: : at
: : : had the accident last year has been repaired and is f
: ly
: : in
: : : g again. There is another Cornell under restoration i
: n
: : We
: : : lland, Ontario by the same group as well.
: :
: : I recently came to realize the CWH has three Cornells (w
: he
: : n you live in Ottawa you often can't keep up with what i
: s
: : going on down in Hamilton). I could be wrong, so feel f
: re
: : e to correct me. I don't know why a museum like the CWH
: w
: : ould operate so many of one type, but there may be a goo
: d
: : reason.
: :
: : Here are the details of the airframes that I believe the
: C
: : WH operates
: :
: : #1 I first saw this one at the Hamilton International Ai
: r
: : Show in 1995 and more recently at the CWH in December 20
: 02
: : ...
: : Model: Fairchild-Fleet M-62A-3 Cornell
: : S/N: 10694 RCAF
: : C/N: FC195
: : C/R: C-GCWC
: : Owner: Canadian Warplane Heritage
: : Codes: "Spirit of Fleet II"
: : History: Conell II [PT-26B] (1943) 10694 RCAF TOS (1943
: /5
: : /17), SOS (1946/12/2), CF-ESD, C-GCWC registered M-26A-3
:
: : Notes: 10694 is marked with the name "Spirit of Fleet I
: I"
: : in memory of the 1000th PT-26 build by Fleet in Fort Er
: ie
: : which at the time was named "Spririt of Fleet".
: :
: : #2 I saw this one at the CWH in December 2002 for the fi
: rs
: : t time and is the same one Eric photographed this week..
: .
: : Model: Fairchild M-62A-3 Cornell
: : S/N: FV702 RCAF
: : C/N: 1070
: : C/R: CF-CVF
: : Owner: Canadian Warplane Heritage
: : Codes: "Spirit of Little Norway", "163"
: : History: Cornell II FV702 RCAF TOS (1944/9/22), SOS (19
: 47
: : /5/6), CF-CVF (1997/9/24) registered M62A-3, first post-
: re
: : storation flight (1998/6/24)
: :
: : #3 This one I just saw for the first time at Ottawa Flig
: ht
: : Fest. As I understand it, it was this one the was invo
: lv
: : ed in a forced landing a year or so ago. If I have my f
: ac
: : ts wrong please let me know. Here is what I know so far
: (
: : but I am not finished my homework yet)...
: : Model: Fairchild-Fleet M-62A-3 Cornell
: : S/N: FV720 RCAF?
: : C/R: CF-CVT
: : Owner: Canadian Warplane Heritage
: : Codes: "Spirit of Fort Erie"
: : History: _____ (1943) FV720 _____, CF-CVT (2001/6/5)
: :
: : If anyone can help by providing some more details please
: l
: : et me know.
: :
: : Regards,
: :
: : Mike
: :