Canadian Air and Space Museum

Canadian Air and Space Museum (formerly the Toronto Aerospace Museum)
Established	1997
Location	de Havilland Canada aircraft manufacturing building, Downsview Park, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Type	Aviation Museum
Curator	Paul Cabot - Manager & Curator
Public transit access	Downsview (TTC) station, Route 101 Downsview Park bus
Website	http://casmuseum.org/index.html

The Canadian Air and Space Museum (formerly the Toronto Aerospace Museum) is an aviation museum featuring artifacts, exhibits and stories illustrating a century of Canadian aviation heritage and achievements. The museum is located in a hangar that once housed the original de Havilland Canada aircraft manufacturing building.

Located in what is now known as Downsview Park, the hangar was later appropriated by the Royal Canadian Air Force as a part of RCAF Station Downsview, and then later as CFB Toronto, which was closed in April 1996.

The institution is largely run by volunteers, and has the goal of educating visitors on the Canadian aerospace industry and technology.

The building

The museum is housed in what was the original factory for the de Havilland Aircraft of Canada. It is the oldest surviving aircraft factory building in Canada.^[1] This building saw the creation of the de Havilland Beaver and Otter bush planes which helped to open the Canadian North, and was also the place where Alouette I, the first Canadian satellite was assembled.

Collection and exhibits

Current museum displays include: an Avro Lancaster undergoing restoration; a full-scale replica of the Avro Arrow, a de Havilland Tiger Moth, Grumman Tracker and many other Canadian-made aircraft. The museum also houses the original equipment that was used to build over a thousand Curtiss JN-4 biplanes in between 1917 and 1918, flight training simulators from the 1940s and 1950s, and exhibits relating to the history of Downsview air force base.

List of Aircraft displayed

• Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow Replica Project
• Avro Lancaster FM104 Restoration Project
• de Havilland Tiger Moth DH82C
• De Havilland Canada CS2F Tracker
• Fleet 80 Canuck
• Beechcraft CT-134 Musketeer
• Ornithopter Project - University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies UTIAS Ornithopter No.1
• CT-133 Silver Star
• SHARP (Stationary High-Altitude Relay Platform)
• Easy Riser Ultralight
• Found Brothers Aviation FBA-2A
• Canadair CT-114 Tutor
• Zenair Zenith CH200
• Stinson Aircraft Company Reliant V-77

Engine Collection

• Alvis Leonides
• de Havilland Gipsy Major
• Orenda
• Iroquois Jet Engine replica
• Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp
• Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr
• Rolls-Royce Derwent

Simulators

• Link C8 Trainer
• Air Canada Viscount Simulator

Art gallery

• The First DH82C Tiger Moth original oil painting by Charles Kadin, 1998.

Planned expansion

The museum was re-launched under its new name on February 20, 2009.^[2] The museum currently has plans to further renovate the premises to better house their large exhibits and to provide more detailed information for visitors and school programs. There will be specific galleries to house the full-sized Avro Arrow replica, another for the Avro Lancaster, and additional galleries dedicated to the history of the de Havilland aircraft company, Canadian achievements in space, including a theatre and planetarium.

Affiliations

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

Gallery

Replica of the Alouette I.	Full-sized replica of an Avro Arrow.	Avro Lancaster Being Restored Alongside the Full-Sized Avro Arrow Replica	Stinson Reliant on display.
Restored Tiger Moth on display.

See also

• Organization of Military Museums of Canada
• Military history of Canada
• de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd
• Parc Downsview Park

References

External links

• Canadian Air and Space Museum
• Canadian Air & Space Museum Photos of aircraft and aviation related exhibits at the Canadian Air & Space Museum

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