Returned to the RCAF after the war and scrapped. In US service used for research purposes by NACA (now NASA). Photo from: Ken Molson fonds - Ingenium

KA100 was lost "in transit" on August 4, 1945. It crashed into the Atlantic while being ferried to the United Kingdom. While it appears in some lists as an RCAF aircraft, it is not in others. The man by the tailplane appears to be pre-flighting the aircraft, possibly ahead of its fateful ferry flight. Photo from: Ken Molson fonds - Ingenium

Canadian built KB112 was retained by the RCAF. Photo from: Ken Molson fonds - Ingenium

Crashed landed on Wolfe Island on April 4, 1937. Photo from: Ken Molson fonds - Ingenium

Photographer: Fred Guthrie.

Photographer: Fred Guthrie.

Photographer: Fred Guthrie.

Photographer: Fred Guthrie.

VA-8 Air Barons

Current status unknown. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

New Dash 8-400 for JeJu Air of South Korea about to takeoff from Runway 15 at Toronto Downsview Airport on a test flight on May 28, 2005. The aircraft departed CYZD on its westbound delivery flight to South Korea on June 12 as HL5252. Later, this Dash 8-400 flew with AIRES in Colombia (HK-4725), and with Air Berlin and Eurowings (D-ABQN) in Europe. It's owned by Nordic Aviation Capital and was re-registered OE-IMF in July 2020.

Retired mining executive Bob Dengler lands his Bell 206L-4, C-GWRD, at the Canadian Air & Space Museum's 2009 Wings & Wheels Heritage Festival at Downsview Airport in central Toronto. The helicopter previously flew in Canada and the USA as C-GADH, N209LB, N888LB and N888LN before Dengler purchased it in Apr. 2007. The aircraft was re-registered C-GFTE in May 2010 and C-GWRD reassigned to his new Bell 429. The LongRanger was sold to National Helicopters in Oct. 2011 and to Ardellini Aviation in Aug 2012 which owned it for only one day before exporting it to New Zealand as ZK-IWY.

This new CRJ900 was displayed at the Bombardier Aerospace Family Day held at the company's factory at Toronto's Downsview Airport in September 2007. A month later it was delivered from the CRJ factory at Mirabel Airport to Mesaba Airlines on October 3, 2007 as N909XJ. In 2022, it was flying for Endeavor Air which is a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines.

Volunteers members of the Toronto Aerospace Museum (TAM) build a full scale medical model of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow at Downsview Airport between 1998 and October 2006 when the aircraft was rolled out before large crowds. The original supersonic Arrow program was cancelled by the Canadian government on February 20, 1959 and all Arrows scrapped except for a cockpit and one wing set. In Sep. 2011, the Museum was evicted from Downsview Park so the historic DHC hangar could be demolished to build a hockey rink. The Arrow model moved to YYZ on Sep. 21-22, 2013 and later to Edenvale Airport.

Prototype Global 7000 (BD-700-2A12) undergoing checks outside the Bombardier Aerospace factory at Toronto's Downsview Airport (CYZD) a little more than two weeks prior to its first flight on Nov. 4, 2016 under the command of Captain Ed Grabman, assisted by his co-pilot, Jeff Karnes and Flight Test Engineer Jason Nickel under clear conditions at 10:25 a.m. EST. The Global 7000 (now 7500) has a 11 ft longer fuselage (for four "living spaces") than the Global 6500, new GE Passport engines and a brand new wing. The Global 5500/6500/7500 factory will move to CYYZ when Downsview closes in 2023.

View of DHC aircraft factory site at Downsview Airport built in 1929-1945 looking NW in Jan. 2010. The 1929 DHC factory site is in the middle of the photo, to the right and below the road crossing the N-S railway line (see No. 429170). The larger building below (with 3 east-facing doors and 4 south-facing doors) was the wartime Anson II & Mosquito factory and postwar DHC production & MRO plant until a new factory opened in 1954. It then became RCAF Downsview & CFB Toronto until 1996. It is now part of Downsview Park. Runway 15-33 is to the right of the photo. The airport will close in 2023.

This is the prewar hangar of The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited at Downsview in 2016 looking NW. The original DHC brick and steel hangar built in 1929 is incorporated into the left (west) hangar bay. When DHC won a contract to build all-Canadian Tiger Moths in 1937, the hangar was extended and a second bay added to the east. If you look closely the DHC name and logo appears over the doors. This is where the 1st DHC-built Tiger Moths, DH 83C Fox Moth, DHC-1 Chipmunk, DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter were manufactured. The original heritage building was lost during a $72 M "renovation."

This DHC-6 Series 300 Twin Otter was delivered to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on in February 1981. It was photographed revisiting its birthplace in Toronto at Downsview Airport for Bombardier Aerospace's 2009 employee family day. The MNR operates its Twin Otters on wheels and amphibious floats depending on the base and season.

Four Seasons Aviation briefly based this DHC-2 Beaver, C-FETE in the Toronto Aerospace Museum (TAM) hangar at Downsview in 2009. It was originally CF-OMI. It was leased to Rideau Air for sightseeing flights in Ottawa in 2010 before exported. The hangar behind was built DHC in 1940-1941 as a paint shop for new Avro Anson IIs and Mosquitoes. Postwar, this building was the site of DHC's experimental workshops where the prototype DHC-1 Chipmunk and DHC-2 Beaver were built by hand. In Apr 2019, Centennial College opened its $72 M Downsview Campus Centre for Aerospace and Aviation on the site.

The first Dash 8-400 (Q400) for Horizon Air was photographed inside the Bombardier Dash 8 factory at Downsview Airport, Toronto, Ontario in late 2000 or early 2001 prior to delivery. The aircraft was initially "delivered" to Bombardier Capital as N400QX on January 8, 2001 (which allowed Bombardier to recognize the delivery before its fiscal year end on Jan 31, 2001 ). Bombardier probably leased this Q400 to Horizon Air before financing was finalized. It was officially registered to the Seattle-based airline on Sep. 20, 2001. Kodachrome Slide Scan.