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AVIATION ARTISTS, WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS

• Airic's Aviation Photography...lots of excellent aviation images and stories

• Art by Lance Russwurm...specializing in aviation, automobiles, and architectural subjects

• David J. Carter....an author of several books on Canadian Aviation & military history

• The Rich Thistle Studio...aviation, automobiles, landscapes and more

CANADIAN AVIATION MUSEUMS

• The Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum

• The Billy Bishop Museum

• The British Columbia Aviation Museum

• The Canadian Museum of Flight .....based in Langley, B.C., featuring a collection of 23 aircraft

• The Calgary Aerospace Museum

• Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association ..a grass roots organization dedicated to keeping Canadian trainers, especially Harvards, flying

• The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum...in Hamilton, Ontario, houses a wonderful, flying collection of warbirds and early jets

• The Canadian War Museum

• The Canada Aviation Museum...(formerly the National Aviation Museum) excellent national aircraft collection and resources

• The Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre

• The Canadian Historical Aircraft Association....collection contains a flying Stearman , 2 Chipmunks and a Cub. They are also engaged in building a Mosquito from scratch.

• The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum...in Brandon, Manitoba

• The Great War Flying Museum...several first World War flying replicas

•  The History of Transportation Museum.....Located in Moose Jaw, part of Saskatchewan's WESTERN DEVELOPMENT MUSEUM.....collection includes an Anson, A Link Trainer, A Crane and a Cornell.

• The Jet Aircraft Museum...A museum dedicated to keeping vintage RCAF jets flying

• The Nanton Lancaster Society and Air Museum...is undertaking a Lancaster restoration

• The National Air Force Museum of Canada...at CFB Trenton, ongoing Halifax restoration

• Toronto Aerospace Museum...an excellent on-line resource for info on Canada's Aviation Industries and the aircraft produced here

• Vintage Wings of Canada - a first class flying museum and historical preservation source located near Ottawa, Canada

• The Western Canada Aviation Museum....excellent collection....Canada's 2nd largest 

SPITFIRE LINKS

• "The City of St. Albans"....a site dedicated to the men who flew this MK IIa Spitfire, serial # P8144. ...also Spitfire lore and history, including current airworthy examples

• Spitfire Society....An organization devoted to the Spitfire.....everything you wanted to know....marks, airworthy examples, history, squadrons etc....

• The Y2K Spitfire Restoration Site...A project to restore a Spitfire Mk IX at the Comox Air Force Museum

• Jerry Billing - last of the Knights...an excellent site devoted to Jerry. Lots of videos, photos and history!

AIRCRAFT....MUSEUMS, FLYING, RESTORATION & RECOVERY

• Aerolocker.com ..... specializing in rare and unique WWII and post-war aircraft, original parts and memorabilia for collectors, restorers and enthusiasts

• Air Heritage Museum..a collection in Beaver Falls, PA

• All Aviation-Flightline Online...a lot of information here...emphasis on Air Racing

• The Arrow Recovery Project...a very worthwhile Canadian endeavor...

• Bell 47 Site....THE classic helicopter

• THE BLACK JET.....Everything you wanted to know about the F-117 Stealth Fighter

• The Canadian Bushhawks Liaison Squadron...Formation flying, airshows, and general info for Aeronca L-16 (Champ) enthusiasts

• Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association ..a grass roots organization dedicated to keeping Canadian trainers, especially Harvards, flying

• The Catalina Society

• Classic Fighters - Marlborough ......a New Zealand site with lots of interesting stuff...including a flying WW1 Collection

• The DeHavilland Moth Club...the definitive site for this historic airplane

• Duncan's F-86 Sabre site...everything you'd ever want to know about Sabres

• The Imperial War Museum at Duxford England

• the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)

• the E.A.A. Air Venture Museum the EAA's museum, located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin...a very extensive collection

• Fantasy of Flight...the web home of Kermit Weeks' famous warbird collection in Florida

• F4UCorsair.com

• Fighter Factory

• Fly Ins .com

• The Great War Flying Museum...several first World War flying replicas

• 1941 Historic Aircraft Group Museum....based in Geneseo, New York

• The Jet Aircraft Museum...A museum dedicated to keeping vintage RCAF jets flying

•  the Kalamazoo Air Zoo....Home of the National Guadalcanal Memorial Museum and the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame

• the MAPS AIR MUSEUM.....at Akron-Canton Airport
   

• Mid Atlantic Air Museum...a collection of airliners and warbirds

• Monono Aircraft Museum (Russia)

• Mustangs.com....the aircraft AND the automobiles

• Mustang restoration Project ...at the Octave Chanute Aviation Museum. A site to help with the restoration of a very rare P-51H.

• the National Air & Space Museum (the Smithsonian)

• National Warplane Museum...good warbird collection

• Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum...in Illinois...a collection of over 40 aircraft and missiles

• The Old Flying Machine Company....the Mark Hanna flying warbird collection at Duxford, England

• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.the late Cole Palen's  fascinating collection of true antique aircraft...from the pioneering days to 1940. They actually fly them in regular displays here. Includes a flying 1909 Bleriot monoplane.....the second oldest flying aircraft in the world

• Preserved Axis Aircraft.....excellent listings of all the survivors

• SeaWings ...THE Flying Boat web site. Excellent reference for historic and currently flying boats.

• Stormbirds....A confederation of Luftwaffe-related web sites, providing reference-grade coverage of the Messerschmitt 262 and other advanced combat aircraft of the Third Reich.

•  431 Squadron -The Snowbirds...Canada's world famous aerobatic team

• T-6 R&D...devoted to real T-6 aircraft and modelling the T-6

• USAF Thunderbirds

• US Navy Blue Angels

• US Air Force Museum ....Wright - Patterson AFB, Ohio

•  The Ventura Memorial Society......a site dedicated to the Lockheed Ventura and the restoration of one example

• Warbird Adventures ....you can fly a T-6 at Kissimmee Municipal Airport!

• Warbirds Resource Group

• The Yankee Air Museum...flying warbirds and static displays in Michigan....book a real B-17 ride!

MILITARY AND AVIATION HISTORY & DATA

• ACME DEPOT......an interesting personal site with loads of information on the history of US flight jackets and other air force gear.

• The Aerodrome....Aces and Aircraft from World War 1

• Aerofiles....a century of American Aviation history....lots of data of all sorts

• AIR ACES.....a list of aces from all countries...WW1 to the present

• Aviation Enthusiast's Corner

• AVROLAND...A site dedicated to the people and aircraft of AVRO CANADA and ORENDA ENGINES

• CANADIAN AIR ACES & HEROES...Biographies of Canadians in WW1, WW2 and Korea....very comprehensive

•   The Canadian Aviation Historical Society

• The Canadian Military - an unofficial historic site ....A very well done site on Canadian Military history, covering all branches from 1812 to the present

•   THE "CANUCK" Homepage....A wonderfully informative site on Canadian battle dress (including re-enactments)

• the Cold War Museum...preserving the history of the cold war

•   DHC-2.COM.....A totally comprehensive database and source of pictures and info on the Immortal DeHavilland BEAVER

• Jerry Billing - last of the Knights...an excellent site devoted to Jerry. Lots of videos, photos and history!

•  MAPLE LEAF UP...The history, vehicles, weapons and equipment of the Canadian Army Overseas in WW2.

• NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER....the official US Navy's historical site

• Preserved U.S. Military Aircraft...a comprehensive list

• The Panzer Museum ....in Munster...one of the premier armour museums in the world

• Society of Air Racing Historians

• the Tuskeegee Airmen

• US AIRCRAFT SERIAL NUMBERS.....1908 to the present...and extremely comprehensive list!

• Warbird Alley

• The WARBIRD REGISTRY.... A listing of the current status of surviving warbirds since WW2

• WARBIRDS RESOURCE GROUP....An excellent collection of several sites devoted to information on warbirds. Individual sites include Luftwaffe, USAAF, Warbird restoration, US Naval Aviation, British Aviation, Modeller's resource centre, Imperial Japanese Aviation Resource Group, Allied Aviation of WW2 (Including a Canadian section)

•   Wings For Freedom...the history and heritage of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Unofficial, but a beautiful site, packed with historical information and data

• The World War II Fighter gun debate....interesting data ....everything you wanted to know about guns of that era

• FLIGHT HERITAGE...a collection of warbird and airshow data and history etc....lot's of images

AVIATION PIONEERS

• Charles Lindbergh, an American Aviator....no other introduction is really needed!...an excellent site

• Glen H. Curtiss ...arguably the founder of the American aviation industry

• the Octave Chanute Pages....the elder statesman of aviation before the Wright brothers.

• the Otto Lilienthal Museum.....dedicated to the first man in history to perform reproducible gliding flights (German/English)

• the Virtual Aviation Museum ... "To fly is everything!" A museum of the invention of the airplane....mostly about the Wrights and their flyer...including a virtual Flyer.

• the Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company.....of Dayton, Ohio....great source of information on Wright history and reproduction aircraft

• the Wright Experience.....a project to duplicate and fly an absolutely authentic Flyer today...as seen on Discovery channel.

AIRCRAFT MODELLING & DIORAMAS

• HYPERSCALE .....an online resource for aircraft and armour modellers, complete with reviews of new kits, and many, many articles on techniques etc for advanced modelling.

• MODEL ACES....see beautiful scale models....a professional model builder's site

• SOLID MODEL MEMORIES....a site devoted to those who build and collect solid carved aircraft models...like they used to make back in the thirties and forties

AIRCRAFT AND KIT MANUFACTURERS & BUILDERS

• THE LOEHLE AIRCRAFT CORP.....a whole line of easy to build and inexpensive replica aircraft kits

• GILBERT CUSTOM AIRCRAFT .....builders and flyers of homebuilts & ultralights by choice. This site includes the progress of a full size Spitfire replica.

AVIATION  & HISTORICAL LINK COLLECTIONS & DATABASES

• ALLIES IN WAR .......a website dedicated to the UK and her allies in both world wars.....pages devoted to tracing people...history, and many links.

• GREAT AVIATION QUOTES

• Top Aviation Sites...your aviation internet resource. Aviation Top 100, 8000+ indexed and searchable links, aircraft buy and sell, N-number search etc.

• The Military Reading List...A database of books available on all types of military topics   

AIR FORCES, AVIATION ORGANIZATIONS & CLUBS

• The Air Force Association of Canada

• Canadian Owners and Pilot's Association

• Canada's Air Force...the official site

• the United States Air Force

• VETERANS AFFAIRS CANADA

MISC

• K-W Surplus...-the famous surplus store with camping, electronic, hardware goods and more, not to mention the tank in the parking lot and the plane on the roof!..And....it just happens to be the location of the Spitfire Emporium.

• The Spitfire Arms Alehouse....If you're in Windsor,  Nova Scotia drop in for a pint with the friendly staff.

• Clark Industries Inc.......manufacturers of aircraft propellers, propeller clocks, and kits for quarter scale flying model WW-2 aircraft .... the Spitfire MK-IX, MK-V,
   MK-XII, Hurricane MK-II and Tiger Moths DH-82a & DH-82c.