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    Airframe Family: Cessna T-50/AT-17/C-78 Bobcat / Crane
    Latest Model:Crane I
    Last Military Serial:8676 RCAF
    Construction Number:8676
    Compressed ID:Cessna Crane I sn 8676 RCAF cn 8676...
    Latest Owner or Location:Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Crane I.

    14 January 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 8676.

    14 January 1942

    Transferred to No. 4 Training Command.

    Transferred to No. 15 Service Flying Training School, Claresholm, AB.

    17 November 1942

    Transferred to No. 2 Training Command.
    Assigned on this date.

    29 November 1942

    Delivered on this date.

    From 30 June 1943 to 2 September 1943

    Transferred to Prairie Airways.
    Sent to Prairie Airways for overhaul.

    Assigned to No. 2 Training Command for storage.

    27 November 1943

    Issued from storage.

    1 December 1944

    Transferred to No. 2 Air Command.

    11 January 1945

    Downgraded to B class equipment.

    17 April 1945

    Pending disposal.

    Assigned to No. 12 Service Flying Training School, Brandon, MB for storage.
    When with No. 12 it was noted as 2408:00 total time and 1198:50 since overhaul.

    11 June 1946

    Transferred to No. 2 Air Command.

    Noted as to be retained in the RCAF for purposes of public display.

    10 July 1950

    Assigned to RCAF Station Lincoln Park, AB for storage.

    13 March 1962

    Assigned to Lincoln Park for storage.
    Placed in inactive reserve.

    Noted as museum aircraft.

    26 April 1962

    Transferred to RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.

    June 1962

    Transferred to Air Defence Command, RCAF Station Uplands, Ottawa, ON.

    6 February 1964

    Assigned to Rockcliffe Museum.

    25 February 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 8676.

    25 February 1969

    Transferred to Department of Secretary of State.

    28 February 1969

    When ownership was transferred to Department of Secretary of State on 25 February 1969, location was noted as CFB Rockcliffe. (Making this the only Canadian Forces Crane?).

    Placed on display with National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa.
    Also displayed in.

    To Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
    View the Location Dossier

    23 May 1999


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

    31 July 2014


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa


    Photographer: Unknown
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