Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre, Aviation museum in Macdonald Campus, Canada
The Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre is an aviation museum on McGill University's Macdonald Campus that displays seven aircraft, engines, flight simulators, and artifacts from Canadian aviation history. The exhibits are arranged across different halls to tell the story of how flight developed in this region.
Godfrey Pasmore founded the Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre in 1998; it opened to the public in 2009. In 2016 the institution took its present name, the Montreal Aviation Museum. It occupies a site on McGill University's Macdonald Campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
The museum's French name is Musée de l'aviation de Montréal; it was founded in 1998 as the Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre and took the Montreal Aviation Museum name in 2016. The display collection holds five aircraft: Blériot XI, Fairchild Bolingbroke Mk IV, Fairchild FC-2, Fleet Canuck and Curtiss-Reid Rambler. A second Bolingbroke Mk IV, a Noorduyn Norseman and a Canadair CF-104 Starfighter are listed as restoration projects.
The museum sits between Highways 40 and 20 with free parking on site, making it easy to reach by car. Staff offer guided tours, and a shop sells aviation-related books and educational materials.
The museum's oldest airframe is a Blériot XI, the type Louis Blériot flew across the English Channel in 1909. Also on display is a Curtiss-Reid Rambler, a Canadian-designed light aircraft of the 1920s. Three machines are listed as restoration projects: a Fairchild Bolingbroke Mk IV, a Noorduyn Norseman and a Canadair CF-104 Starfighter.
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