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Photographer: Alberto Storti

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Delivered to the RCAF as 9463 in 1968. Reserialled as 115463 in 1970. To Sky Relief as Z-SRA in 1995 and scrapped at Harare in 2000.

"Canforce 465" CC-115 performs at the 93' March Field show

Ex RCAF 9460, CF-LAQ. Became Z-SRB; still current in 2022.

Ex RCAF 9460, CF-LAQ. Became Z-SRB; still current in 2022.

Quite sure this was taken in the spring of 1981, didn't log the date in 1981 and film usuall y stayed in the camera for some time.

One of my main aims in visiting Trenton was to shoot this Buffalo, but my extremely hectic schedule that day which included driving to Hamilton as part of a 550km round trip meant that I had to accept less than perfect light. 115456 left DHC's Downsview plant and began service with 429 Sqdn (Tactical Transport) at St. Hubert, Quebec in 1967. In 1975 it was converted to a dual role transport/SAR aircraft for 442 Sqdn (Transport & Rescue) at CFB Comox, BC, flying until retirement in September 2020 and ferry to the museum the next month. The CC-115s have been replaced at Comox by the CC-295.

This is the Canadian Air Force's first Buffalo (the first four DHC-5s built went to the US Army) that rolled out on February 20, 1967. Pictured with 442 Squadron's 75th anniversary crest in 2017, the last of the RCAF's CC-115 Buffalos were retired after 55 years in 2022.

This Buffalo participated in a local SAR Excercise, in May 2005, together with the United States Air Force and paid a visit to Calgary.

Attached to United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) as a communications aircraft, this flight was about to depart to JRS via AKR at a very early time in November. One of a number of CAF aircraft that provided a very efficient and reliable service between the various Capitals in the area at that time.

442 Squadron CC-115 Buffalo visits Vancouver International Airport from Canadian Forces Base Comox on Vancouver Island in April 1974. The aircraft is parked outside the Canadian Forces' Air Movement Unit (AMU) hangar which was located on the northwest side of runway 26 which was a hangar used by RCAF Sea Island which closed in late 1964 for budgetary reasons. This aircraft was delivered new in May 1970 in camouflage to 429 (Tactical Transport) Squadron. It was converted to SAR configuration and repainted white in the early 1970s and repainted SAR yellow in the early 1980s. Date might be 1975.

ex 9460, to Z-SRB