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    Airframe Family: Bristol 100/200/300 Britannia / CL-28/CP-107 Argus / CL-44/CC-106 Yukon
    Latest Model:CP-107-Mk 2 Argus
    Last Military Serial:10742 CAF
    Construction Number:33 (CP-107)
    Compressed ID:Canadair CP-107-Mk 2 sn 10742 CAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    1960

    Constructed as a CP-107-Mk 2 by Canadair.

    1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 20742.

    4 May 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 10742.

    17 May 1982

    To Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
    This Argus was the last one built. It was manufactured by Canadair Limited in Montreal, Quebec in 1960. It operated with No. 415 Squadron RCAF in Greenwood, Nova Scotia from 1960 to 1978, when it was transferred to Canadian Forces Base Summerside in Prince Edward Island. It served there until 1982 and was then retired and transferred to the Museum in a May 17, 1982 ceremony. The Argus is the largest aircraft in the collection and the Museums hangar doors were designed to accommodate it.
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    18 September 1999


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

    15 September 2013


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

    April 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    April 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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