Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum

Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
Location	Brandon, Manitoba
Coordinates	49°54′14″N 99°56′33″W / 49.903786°N 99.942488°W
Website	http://www.airmuseum.ca/

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is an aviation museum located at Brandon Municipal Airport, Brandon, Manitoba. It is dedicated to the memory of the airmen from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, who trained at World War II air stations across Canada. The museum is in stage 1 of redevelopment, which will see it restored to include the main hangar, medical building, chapel, H-hut aircrew barracks, motor pool building, canteen and interpretive center.^[when?]

The museum contains several World War II aircraft, displays of navigation, pilot, bombardier, ground crew and transport equipment, various artifacts and a gift shop. The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.^[1]

History

The museum temporarily closed in 2022 for structural repairs to its hangar.^[2]

Collection

Airplanes

Plane	Serial
Avro Anson	12518
Avro Anson
Beechcraft Model 18
Bristol Bolingbroke	9059
Bristol Bolingbroke (located at Comfort Inn)	9944
Cessna Crane
de Havilland Tiger Moth
Fairchild Cornell
Fleet Fort
Hawker Hurricane	5461
North American Harvard
Stinson 108
Westland Lysander (until 2003)

Vehicles

Vehicle	Type
1940 Chrysler	staff car
1940 Chevrolet	staff car
1942 Ford	fuel tender
1942 Ford 1/x ton	general service
1944 Ford 6x6	crash truck
Ford tractor	tow
Jeep	utility
1942 FWD	snow blower
1942 FWD	snow blower

Gallery

Bolingbroke at CATPM
Westland Lysander at CATPM
Fairchild Cornell at CATPM

Affiliations

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

References

^ Canadian Register of Historic Places.
^ Slark, Colin (31 May 2023). "Air Museum Relaunching Sunday". Brandon Sun. Retrieved 1 July 2024.

External links

[1] Canadian Register of Historic Places.

[2] Slark, Colin (31 May 2023). "Air Museum Relaunching Sunday". Brandon Sun. Retrieved 1 July 2024.

[1]

[2]

v t e Canadian aviation museums
Alberta	Alberta Aviation Museum Bomber Command Museum of Canada Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame Cold Lake Air Force Museum The Hangar Flight Museum Reynolds Museum
British Columbia	British Columbia Aviation Museum Canadian Museum of Flight Comox Air Force Museum
Manitoba	Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park Canadian Starfighter Museum Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Manitoba Military Aviation Museum Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada
Nova Scotia	Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum Greenwood Military Aviation Museum Shearwater Aviation Museum
Newfoundland and Labrador	North Atlantic Aviation Museum
Ontario	Canadian Air and Space Conservancy Canada Aviation and Space Museum Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Great War Flying Museum Jet Aircraft Museum Memorial Military Museum National Air Force Museum of Canada
Quebec	Quebec Aerospace Museum Montreal Aviation Museum Musée de la Défense aérienne Vintage Wings of Canada
Saskatchewan	Western Development Museum
See also	List of aerospace museums

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States