This is a replica of the Bellanca CH-400 Special Model J in which Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr. made the world's first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean from Misawa, Japan to Wenatchee, Washington on Oct 4, 1931. In 1998 the Spirit of Wenatchee organization was formed to build a flying replica for 100 Years of Powered Flight celebrations in 2003. Much of the work was done by members of EAA Chapter 424 based in Wenatchee. In 2005, a crew flew the Bellancato Eastern Canada and stopped at the Toronto Aerospace Museum located in an old DHC factory at Downsview Airport, Toronto, ON. Photographer: Charles Kadin.

This is a replica of the Bellanca CH-400 Special Model J in which Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr. made the world's first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean from Misawa, Japan to Wenatchee, Washington on Oct 4, 1931. In 1998 the Spirit of Wenatchee organization was formed to build a flying replica for 100 Years of Powered Flight celebrations in 2003. Much of the work was done by members of EAA Chapter 424 based in Wenatchee. In 2005, a crew flew the Bellanca to Eastern Canada and stopped at the Toronto Aerospace Museum located in a former DHC hangar at Downsview Airport, Toronto, ON. Photographer: Charles Kadin.

This former RCAF DHC-1 attended the 60th anniversary Chipmunk fly-in at Downsview Airport in Toronto staged by the Toronto Aerospace Museum in late May 2006, 60 years after the prototype flew at the same location on May 22, 1946. The aircraft is parked on the ramp outside the wartime DHC factory that built DH 82C Tiger Moths, Anson IIs and Mosquitos and the postwar Chipmunk, Beaver and Otter before a new DHC factory opened in Sep. 1954 to the south. This aircraft has been owned by Terri Garrison and Don Shackketon since July 1980 and is based at Oshawa Airport (YOO) east of Toronto.

The prototype Bombardier Dash 8-400 is seen landing on runway 15 at Downsview Airport, Toronto. The aircraft made its first flight on January 31, 1998 (the end of the Bombardier fiscal year) wearing the registration C-FJJA which is a tribute to de Havilland Canada flight test Jackson "Jock" Aitken who died suddenly a few months earlier. The aircraft first flew in green primer paint and then blue and white Q400 markings until receiving this colour scheme. The aircraft was based at the Bombardier Flight Test Center in Wichita until Bombardier sold DHC in June 2019 and C-FJJA returned to Canada.

The aircraft was photographed immediately after a ceremony and media event at Downsview marking the 300th Q400 delivery to Porter Airlines, with the aircraft wearing a commemorative 300th delivery decal on the side of the fuselage.

AirBaltic Dash 8-400 on the ramp outside the Bombardier aircraft factory at Downsview. It was delivered seven months later.

Global Express XRS, C-FCSL, msn 9176, about to depart Runway 15 at Downsview Airport, Toronto on a test flight.

This Dash 8-400 (C-FMTY, msn 4179) was photographed on final approach to Runway 33 at Downsview Airport, Toronto following a test flight. It was delivered to Flybe in November 2007 and assigned the registration G-JECZ.

On 2nd -3rd July 2005, this Vickers Vimy replica, NX71MY, successfully re-enacted Alcock & Brown's trans-Atlantic flight from St Johns, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland, in just under 19 hours. It was built California in 1994 and for the trans-Atlantic flight equipped with a pair of Orenda OE600 V8s. The Toronto Aerospace Museum hosted the Vimy May 25-June 1 while a team from Toronto-based Orenda inspected the engines. Steve Fossett and Mark Rebholz departed Downsview on June 1 escorted by four WW1 replica fighters from the Great War Flying Museum. Fossett died in a crash on Sep. 3, 2007.

The Toronto Aerospace Museum hosted a 60th Anniversary DHC-1 Chipmunk homecoming and symposium at the aircraft's birthplace at the original DHC factory at Downsview Airport in late May 2006. Retired DHC test pilot and vintage aircraft restorer George Neal is seen here in his Chipmunk CF-JAG in front of Bombardier Global Express (BD-700-1A10) C-FEBQ (msn 9196) built at Downsview in 2006. Neil died in April 2016 at the age of 97. His Chipmunk is now owned by Viking Aircraft which owns the Type Certificates for the DHC-1 through DHC-8 aircraft families.

George Neal's DHC-1 Chipmunk, CF-JAG, beside six of the nine DHC-1s that participated in a fly-in at Downsview Airport in May 2006 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the prototype Chipmunk at the airport on May 22, 1946. The homecoming was organized by the Toronto Aerospace Museum and was part of the Museum's first annual Wings & Wheels Festival.

Percival P.57 Sea Prince T.Mk.1 C-GJIE was imported to by Atlantis Transportation Services in 1987 and based at (YOO) Oshawa Airport and later repainted in Royal Navy c/s. It was donated to the Toronto Aerospace Museum in the early 2000s and flown to Downsview Airport for display. The museum had limited space so the aircraft was sold to a party in St. Catharines, ON. but the deal never closed. Peter Muehlegg of Skywagon City acquired the aircraft and it was trucked to his airstrip on Concession Road 7 in Brechin, ON by 2007. Muehlegg died on March 7, 2015. Status unknown at time of posting.

Bombardier used this Dash 8-202 as a employee shuttle between its facilities in Montreal (CYUL) and Downsview between about 1999 and 2012 (?) when it was replaced by a Dash 8-400. This aircraft was originally built for Mesa Airlines but never delivered. It was repainted in these colours when the Dash 8 was rebranded the "Q Series" to highlight the new active noise and vibration system (NVS) installed on new aircraft to reduce interior cabin noise. Bombardier also painted a Q300 (green) and Q400 (blue) in similar markings. It was sold to Sierra Nevada Corp. in 2012 and now flies for the USAF.

15 years on after I last photographed it at Oshawa / YOO.

As part of the de Havilland Employees' Sports Club, the de Havilland Flying Club purchased C-FUHG used in June 1973. After 24 years and almost 5,000 hours of flying, it was sold in June 1997.

While the number 1 Dash 7 prototype did most of the demonstration flying, this second prototype remained with DHC for development flying. Stored at Van Nuys, CA, the registration was cancelled in December 1988 when Dash 7 production ended. It was broken up for parts and the remainder scrapped.

At Downsview pre-delivery in Widerøe's original Twin Otter livery

Preserved wearing its correct wartime RCAF serial 3874