A Visit to the RCAF Museum –Trenton, Ontario

Handley Page Halifax

 Last summer my family and I have visited the Royal Canadian Air Force Museum in Trenton, Ontario. My dad wanted to see the restored Halifax bomber plane. This Halifax was recovered in a Fiord in Norway and was restored in Trenton. My dad had visited the restoration in 1997 and wanted to see it fully restored. He was interested in the Halifax because his relative Rohan Amerasekera had flown as a navigator with the RAF in one of them during WW2 (more on that later, in another post). We also saw lots of different kinds of aircraft from the Second World War and the Cold War eras. I really liked checking out the Spitfire and the Hurricane, which were the most famous aircraft of the Battle of Britain.

 The museum was fun to visit and my dad also took photos of the medals belonging to the Canadian pilot, Len Birchall, who was known as the Saviour of Ceylon, which will make an interesting story for another post.  With Remembrance Day coming up in November, I will do some posts on these people and about my grandfather.

Here`s a video I took of the Halifax aircraft:

Hawker Hurricane

Supermarine Spitfire

Have any of you visited the RCAF Museum in Trenton or the Aviation Museum in Ottawa?  Did you enjoy it?  Do you have a favourite aircraft or a story about one?  Please post your comments.