Dates

Event

1948

Constructed as a C-54GM by Canadair at Montreal, QC.
Canadair C-54GM 122

March 1948

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 17515.

1966

To Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
This North Star was manufactured in 1948 by Canadair Limited in Montreal, Quebec and was delivered to the RCAF in March of that year. It spent its entire career with No. 426 Squadron. Starting in 1950 the aircraft was used in Operation Hawk to transport supplies across the Pacific during the Korean War. On these missions, it flew from McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma, Washington to Shemya, in the Aleutian Islands and then Japan. The aircraft was also used for Red River flood relief in Manitoba, in northern resupply efforts and in UN peacekeeping missions during the 1950s. It became a transport trainer in 1962. This North Star was one of two that took part in a ceremony to mark the official stand down of the type in December 1965. It was retired and transferred to the Museum in 1966. It is the only North Star left.
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1994

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

25 July 1999

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

9 June 2012

Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at the Wings and Wheels show at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum at the former CFB Rockcliffe in Ottawa, Ontario.

9 June 2012

Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at the Wings and Wheels show at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum at the former CFB Rockcliffe in Ottawa, Ontario.

15 September 2013

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

Photographer: Unknown