20 JUNE Sherwood
proclaims delight
"We're delighted to add a Tiger Moth to our collection,"
proclaimed Museum chairman Claude Sherwood. "This Toronto-built
aircraft made a very important contribution to the Canadian war
effort, and we are delighted to see it return to Downsview, to
the very factory where it was built 60 years ago." MORE NEWS
Sixty-two years after its first
flight, a 1942 de Havilland Canada D.H. 82C Tiger Moth aircraft
is making an historic 4,500 kilometre (3,200 mile) homecoming
journey to its birthplace in Toronto. CONTINUED
W.R. (Bob) Laidlaw was born and raised in Toronto
and studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Toronto
and MIT in Cambridge, Mass. He learned to fly with the R.C.A.F.
in a Tiger Moth at No. 20 EFTS at Oshawa, Ont. in 1943...
CONTINUED
The Tiger Moth, a biplane, is one of Canada's
best known training aircraft of the Second World War. Aircraft
No. 3874 was one of 1,500 built by de Havilland at Downsview,
then a suburb of Toronto, to equip wartime R.C.A.F. flying schools
of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. CONTINUED
The Toronto Aerospace Museum is one of just
a few aviation museums in the world located in an authentic aircraft
factory. The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. established
an aircraft factory at Downsview in 1929. CONTINUED
