Between the 1950s and the early 2000s all branches of the Canadian Armed Forces including the RCAF and Royal Canadian Navy operated Canadian licensed built versions of the Lockheed T-33 in the fighter trainer role. The aircraft were designated as CT-33s and were built by Cartierville based Canadair in the 1950s.

Over the period of half a century there reliable all weather jet trainers were based from coast to coast, with major bases including CFB Cold Lake, Namao, CFB Comox, CFB Bagotiville and and CFB Shearwater, in addition to overseas assignments supporting Canadian troops in our NATO commitments at bases with Europe, primarily in the UK, France and Germany.

Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds CT-33 133275 Abbotsford August 1973.

During the 1970s many of the Canadian Armed Forces CT-33s underwent system upgrades performed Northwest Industries at Edmonton’s Industrial / Municipal airport, which was also responsible for decommissioning work on surplus CT-33s as they were retired from the active military duty and sold to private owners and overseas military air arms, which included the Bolivian Air Force.

Most of these lovely images were taken by Dr. John Blatherwick during his Canadian travels and airshow visits between the late 1960s and early 2000s..

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Between the mid 1940s and the late 1980s the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Armed Forces operated a fleet of several hundred different airframes of the C-47 over the passing decades.

The reliable transports were based from coast to coast, with major bases including CFB Cold Lake, CFB Winnipeg, and CFB Shearwater, in addition to overseas assignments supporting Canadian troops in our NATO commitments at bases with Europe, primarily in the UK, France and Germany.

Canadian Armed Forces C-47 Dakota 12944 at Vancouver in May 1971.

Many of the aircraft were built by Douglas of Santa Monica during World War II, and after their retirement from Canadian military duty a good number of the C-47 Dakotas were sold into the civil market operating for smaller Canadian airlines. The C-47 aircraft were operated under several divisions including Rescue, Air Training Command, Maritime Command, and Mobile Command.

Most of these lovely images were taken by Dr. John Blatherwick during his Canadian travels in the 1970s.

Henry Tenby has been collecting aircraft slides since the early 1980s, and has amassed the collection of NASA flight test development aircraft slides in his collection as presented on this page.

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