Dates

Event

1969

Constructed as a CL-84-1.

1972

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n CX8402.

1984

To Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
This CL-84, the third prototype, was manufactured by Canadair Limited in Montreal in 1969. Though it was ground tested in 1969, it did not fly until September 1972, when test flights involving Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom began. Starting in Canada, testing moved in December 1972 to the U.S. Navy Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, where the aircraft remained for most of the next eighteen months. Test exercises included the first convertiplane transition from conventional to hovering flight under blind flying conditions, which took place on April 5, 1973. Trials were also carried out from helicopter carriers USS Guam and USS Guadalcanal. In all, 196 test flights were completed, totalling over 169 flying hours. Without a market for the aircraft, the program was abandoned in 1974. Canadair stored the CL-84 over the next decade, donating it to the Museum in 1984. Airtech Canada Aviation Limited of Peterborough restored the aircraft between July 1993 and October 1994.
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1994

Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photo taken at the National Aviation Museum.

20 May 1995

Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at the National Aviation Museum at the former CFB Rockcliffe in Ottawa, Ontario.

Markings Applied: 402

15 September 2013

Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
Notes: 2013 photo at Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa-Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)

11 December 2013

Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: This photo was taken at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.