Langley Museum of Flight ( Near Vancouver ) 06/08/2012

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Visit on 6th August 2012.




















Les

[graham]

Thanks Les

[denwil189]

Hi Les
Good to see your pictures. Also visited this Museum on the 3rd July 2015, difficult to get a good picture everything is a bit cramped, but at least some interesting aircraft there. After this museum then headed 500 miles north into the Rockies upto the Alaskan highway. Will put a list on the Forum after Xmas.
Den

[davebasing]

Thanks to Les for the photos.For me at least the best thing when I visited the museum at Langley was this HP Hampden. Its the only survivor of the type other than the one under restoration at Cosford. The Langley aircraft (P5436) was recovered from an inlet off Vancouver Island where it ditched back in 1942 and rebuilt using some parts from serial numbers AN132 & AN136 but a build up of snow on the wings in early 2009 caused the port wing to break off. Its some years since I was there but I believe its now back in one piece again.

The H19 which Les photographed is even more of a bitser (bitser this, bitser that). It was never in Canadian military service despite its paint scheme and consists of a part of CF-JJN (ex 53-4414) but with the rest coming from a whole shed load of other choppers and spare parts. The CF100 is also a composite, as is the Tutor (albeit only the tail is from another aircraft).

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Den
I did find that the Canadian museums aircraft were tightly packed.
Plus the museum at Bellingham airport is also tightly packed in. Bellingham airport is off the main highway between Everett and before the crossing into Vancouver. I have no photos from Bellingham.
Les