ALCI Aviation Limited of Oshawa, Ontario (aka Enterprise Air Inc.) began flying this Basler BT-67 on contract with the White Desert travel company in Antarctic during the 2019-2020 tourist season. White Desert guests fly from Cape Town to Antarctica in a Gulfstream G550 or G650 bizjets and land on Wolf's Fang blue ice runway (aka Blue One) in Queen Maud Land. The ALCI ski-equipped BT-67s fly guests between camps. Originally flown in the UK as RAF FD789 and G-AKNB, it was exported to the US in 1989 as N59NA. To Basler in 2014. To BT-67 N141PR in Sep. 2018 and to Canada in Nov 2019 as C-GOOU.

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 is the 26th DHC-2 Beaver made by de Havilland Canada at Downsview. It was delivered in Nov 1948 to the Department of Transport and flew with the government from various bases in Canada for almost 50 years before being sold to North Bay Aviation Ltd. in Nov. 1999. It was registered to Attridge Holdings Inc. (and Doug Attridge) between 2009 and 2018 when it was based at a couple small airfields north of Toronto such as Markham and Baldwin Airport (seen here). Since 2018 its been based south of Ottawa at a small airstrip near Maxville, Ontario.

First registered as G-BDOM in 1976. To N411WA in 1982 with various operators in the USA, the last of which was Mountain High Aviation (from 1994 until 2009). It then became YJ-LGF in the island nation of Vanuatu, before export to New Zealand as ZK-LGF. In 2018 it joined the fleet of Roraima Airways in Guyana as 8R-GRF. Port Angeles is is northwest Washington State, across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Victoria, British Columbia.

Seen on the ramp at Santiago de Cuba looking south towards the main runway.

Short SC.7 Skyvan N50NS was photographed at Baldwin Airport in June 2013 on lease to the Parachute School of Toronto, which usually only operates a single engine Cessna U206B (C-FEZN) and Cessna 182H (CF-SGR). The aircraft was delivered new to Loganair as G-AWYG in March 1969 and was imported to the USA by Summit Airlines as N28TC in July 1974. It joined North Star Air Cargo in 1992 and became N50NS in 1993. In Nov. 2017 it joined the parachute fleet of Eagle Air Transport Inc as N50EA. Baldwin Airport is 44 mi north of Toronto near Sutton, ON. It has a 2,460 ft turf runway.

This DH 82C Tiger Moth was build by DHC at Downsview, Ontario and Taken on strength by the 28 March 1942 as RCAF 3932 and assigned to No. 1 EFTS at Malton (today's YYZ). It had 2024:50 hrs TT when and sold post-war to the Royal Canadian Flying Club Association as CF-CKF. It was acquired by DH collector W.T. "Watt" Martin of Milton and later Grand Valley, ON on 29 April 1966. In Nov. 2017 was transferred to Donald Martin, Watt's son. The Gathering of the Classics fly-in moved from Collingwood (CNY3) to Edenvale (CNV8) after the wartime RCAF airfield was reactivated by Milan Kroupa Sr. in 2004.

Chevron USA is the only oil company still operating its own fleet of offshore helicopters in the Gulf of Mexico. The maintenance base moved from New Orleans Lakefront to Picayune (KMJD) after Hurricane Katrina. One of its long-time helicopter bases was the Chevron Heliport (8LA1) located on Tidewater Road in Venice, Louisiana at the southern end of Highway 23. The office is 12+ ft above the ground to protect it from hurricane storm surges. An AW139, Bell 429 and two Bell LongRangers were based there in 2015.

BellHelicopter Canada test pilot Yann Lavallee is seen here demonstrating the third prototype Bell 505 Jet Ranger X at the annual HeliClub private helicopter fly-in at the Saint-Jovite (CSZ3) airport neat the Mont Tremblant resort north of Montreal. Bell is one of the sponsors of the private fly-in at CSZ3 which is only 45 mile (73 km) NW of the Bell Helicopter Canada factory in Mirabel, Quebec. First registered on June 25, 2015, this prototype was retired in 2021 and cancelled from the Canadian civil register on Sep 23, 2021.

Chevron USA established a new offshore helicopter base at Galliano - South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr. Airport in 2014 to support deepwater oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The base replaced a heliport in use since the 1960s at Leeville, about 14 miles to the south, which often flooded during hurricanes. Chevron used the VHI Cougar passenger terminal at GAO until it built a base of its base. This new S-92A was just delivered from the Sikorsky factory in Coatesville, PA. The registration N249JT is on tape on the tail boom covering its new Chevron USA registration N392LS.

This new EC145 (BK 117C-2) was displayed in primer by Eurocopter at the HAI Heli-Expo 2009 trade show in the Anaheim Convention Center (across the street from Disneyland). It was delivered to Era Helicopters, reregistered N702LM, and then leased to the Comision Federal de Electricidad in Mexico as XA-UPQ. It was returned to Era and later sold to Air Methods to be an air ambulance in 2018. It was registered N145TJ in 2019 when it replaced another EC145 (msn 9092) flying for JeffSTAT, the air medical transportation service of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.

Canada flew two batches of McDonnell CF-101 Voodoos. The first batch of CF-101Bs entered service in 1961-62 and were returned to the USAF in 1971. The second batch of 67 CF-101F's aircraft were delivered in 1970-1971 (and one in 1982) and were retired with the delivery of new CF-18s. CF-101F 101003 was ex-USAF s/n 56-262. It served with 410 Sqn. and 425. Sqn at CFB Bagotville, Quebec and 416 Sqn at CFB Chatham, New Brunswick. It was preserved at CFB Goose Bay by 1994, but probably earlier. For more info on the CAF CF-101F's, see http://www.rwrwalker.ca/caf_voodoos_detailed_list.htm

Avro Vulcan XL361 was on a trans-Atlantic flight from Woodford, UK to Offutt AFB in Nebraska on November 13, 1981 when it suffered an inflight fire and made an emergency landing at CFB Goose Bay, Labrador. Rather than repair the aircraft and return it to the UK, it became the gate guardian for the RAF detachment at Goose Bay, which utilized a large military practice range in Labrador. The Vulcan and a CF-101 Voodoo are displayed in a park near the airport's ATC tower. Photographed at YYR during a fuel stop while flying as a passenger in a Bombardier Q400 to the Paris Air Show.

Canadian Forces Joint Task Force Afghanistan Air Wing was activated at Kandahar in December 2008 and equipped with three CC-130 Hercules, eight CH-146 Griffons, six Mil Mi-8s (from Skylink Aviation of Toronto), and six used Boeing CH-47D Chinooks acquired from the US Army in Afghanistan, including 147205, in 2008. Originally CH-47A, serial 66-00103 (B.236); it was upgraded to a CH-47D in March 1986 and became 86-01650 (M.3155). Damaged on landing in Panjwaii on May 16 2011 it was recovered by a CH-53E. The CH-47Ds were stored at Davis-Monthan AFB by late 2011 and some sent to RCAF Museums.

The Royal Canadian Navy acquired 41 CHSS-2 Sea Kings in 1963-1969 for ASW use. Four were built by Sikorsky and the remaining 37 by United Aircraft of Canada (Pratt & Whitney Canada) in Longueuil, PQ. Most were deployed on destroyers and frigates. The last CH-124s retired at 443 Sqn. at Victoria Airport, BC in Dec. 2018 and replaced by the Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone. Several went to RCAF base museums and the rest (about 16) were sold to Rotor Maxx Support Ltd. in Parksville, BC (owned by the VIH Group). 12429 was the last Sea King deployed at sea with HMCS St. John's from Jan. 16-Jul. 23, 2018.

This Avro Canada CF-100 Mk 4 was retired from operation use in 1964 and used at Canadian Forces Base Borden north of Toronto as a technical training aid (serial 646B) and later stored in a radiation test compound near the south gate of the base. It was restored by volunteers in workshops at the base in the early 2000s and displayed outside the base's aviation museum located in a 1917 RFC (Canada) hangar where it was photographed beside two CF-5s and two CT-133s. It was later moved to a location further north outside the "WO & Sgt Mess, Juno Beach" on Flaise Road.

This Dash 8-300 was delivered new to Great China Airlines in Taipei, Taiwan in July 1995 (as B-15225) which was later renamed Uni Air. Avmax Aircraft Leasing Inc. acquired the aircraft in Sep. 2014 and it was flown back to Canada as C-FBXT and then stored at the Avmax facility in Great Falls, MT until sold to Inter-Aero Inc., of Arnprior, ON and flown to Montreal (YUL) on Jul 25, 21, 2015 where it was stored for three years (and photographed) until sold to CemAir, Johannesburg, RSA in June 2018 and re-registered ZS-DHF after delivery. It then became 9J-PZB with Proflight Zambia.