Built as an A.O.P. Mk. VI and given the RAF serial VP630 for flight testing. Sent to Canada for reassembly by MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Ltd and delivered to the RCAF March 12,1948. Sold to Sigurdson Aviation Ltd for civil conversion, it was registered CF-NQC as a Beagle A.61 in May 1963. Still on the Canadian register (as C-FNQC) with the Saskatchewan Aviation Historical Society, but available for sale at the time of uploading.

Tutor 26015 was leased back from the Air Force by Canadair several times. First in the 60s to develop a wing with pylons for the armed CL-41G. Pictured during the second time the aircraft was leased to participate in the London to Victoria Air Race celebrating the Province of British Columbia's 100th anniversary (note the F-86 Sabre tanks to extend the Tutor's range). As a military aircraft, it was an unofficial entry and it's race ended in Kenora, ON when a rag was sucked into the running engine during a fuel stop.