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The Ingenium museums are reopening soon! We’ve missed you! We can’t wait to welcome you back. Get ready for a new museum experience.

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Lockheed CC-130E Hercules

Artifact no.: 2016.0005

Lockheed CC-130E Hercules

A heavy-duty transport aircraft designed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for the United States Air Force (USAF) in the early 1950s.

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: A black-and-white photograph of Robert Hampton Gray posing with his hands across his raised knee and dressed in his ceremonial uniform.
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Honouring the brave: Robert Hampton Gray was Canada’s last recipient of the Victoria Cross

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Aug 5, 2020
British Columbia’s Robert Hampton Gray died 75 years ago; he was Canada’s last recipient of the Victoria Cross.
One of the Found FBA-2s of Georgian Bay Airways Limited. H.L. “Des US et du Canada 2 formules d’avions légers – 1 Le Found ‘Flying Truck.’” Aviation magazine international, 1 July 1964, 39.
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A small Ontarian flying truck relocated in the land of the kiwis: The Found FBA-2 bush airplane

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Aug 2, 2020
Greetings and salutations, my reading friend. Would it be alright with you if this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee dealt with an aircraft which can be found in the amazingly impressive collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, rather than with a photograph found
The one and only Cushioncraft CC1, initially known as the Britten-Norman BN-1 Cushioncraft / CC1 Cushioncraft. Anon., “News Digest – New Cushion-rider.” Canadian Aviation, August 1960, 46.
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It seemed like a good idea at the time: The bananas of the British Cameroons and the Cushioncraft CC1 hovercraft

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Aug 1, 2020
How are you doing on this day, my reading friend? Yours truly has a confession to make: there is more to life than airplanes – and I have to thank a former colleague for pointing this out, many years ago. (Hello, CF!) A list of items covered in this non aeronautical category would be very long. Any

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