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The Shearwater Aviation Museum is an
aviation museum An aviation museum, air museum, or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and cultural artifacts, artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual, replica or accurate reproduction aircraft, exhibits can include photographs, maps, P ...
located at CFB Shearwater in
Shearwater, Nova Scotia Shearwater is an unincorporated Nova Scotia suburban community in the Halifax Regional Municipality between Woodside and Eastern Passage occupied by Shearwater heliport. Shearwater is divided into two sections by Main Road, referred to locally as ...
. The museum acquires, conserves, organizes, researches and interprets to Canadian Forces personnel and the public at large for their study, education and enjoyment, artifacts and documents which exemplify the history of Canadian maritime military aviation.


History

The museum was founded in 1978 and was originally located a single floor of a barrack block. However, in August 1995 the museum reopened in a former gymnasium on the base. The museum was expanded in August 2001, with the opening of a new addition.


Exhibits

A number of permanent exhibits are featured at the museum with maritime aviation and naval history being a key theme. Included is an exhibit about
HMCS Bonaventure HMCS ''Bonaventure'' was a , the third and last aircraft carrier in service with Canada's navy. The aircraft carrier was initially ordered for construction by Britain's Royal Navy as HMS ''Powerful'' during the Second World War. Following the en ...
, Canada's last
aircraft carrier An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...
. The exhibit includes a reconstruction of the briefing room aboard the aircraft carrier, complete with original seats. Also on display is a replica of the map wall used by the
RCAF Eastern Air Command Eastern Air Command was the part of the Royal Canadian Air Force's Home War Establishment responsible for air operations on the Atlantic coast of Canada during the Second World War. It played a critical role in anti-submarine operations in Canadia ...
to coordinate the
Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade ...
.


Aircraft on display

* Canadair CT-114 Tutor ''114075'' * Canadair CT-133 Silver Star ''133038'' * Canadair CT-133 Silver Star ''133618'' * de Havilland Canada CP-121 Tracker ''1557'' * Fairey Firefly FR.I ''PP462'' * Fairey Swordfish IV ''HS469'' * General Motors AS.3 Avenger ''85861'' * Grumman CP-121 Tracker ''1501'' *
McDonnell CF-101B Voodoo The McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo was an all-weather interceptor aircraft operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Forces between 1961 and 1984. They were manufactured by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri for ...
''101063'' *
McDonnell F2H-3 Banshee The McDonnell F2H Banshee (company designation McDonnell Model 24) is an American single-seat carrier-based jet fighter aircraft deployed by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps from 1948 to 1961. A development of the FH Phantom ...
''126402'' * North American Harvard IIA ''2777'' * Piasecki H-25 * Sikorsky HO4S-3 ''55885''


See also

* National Naval Aviation Museum


References


External links


Shearwater Aviation Museum

Shearwater Aviation Museum Foundation
{{authority control Aerospace museums in Nova Scotia Museums in Halifax, Nova Scotia Naval museums in Canada