Some random Naval Aviation pics.

[Clunkmeister]

Mostly operating from Magnificent and Bonaventure.   And of course Shearwater. Trackers, Avengers, Banshees, Sea Furies, Seafires, H-19, Bell 47, and HUPs

Cool pics. Big aircraft, little carriers. 
Some very interesting modeling ideas here.

If you have some unique and/or seldom seen pics, let’s see them and get the juices flowing.  Nationality unimportant, cool pics very important 

[Jeff]

AWESOME pics Ernie, I spent nearly an hour enjoying them, thanks for sharing and great thread idea

[TJTX]

Stupid statement, but I honestly had no idea Canada ever had a carrier.  I also thought a Felixstowe had a bleed air line for awhile.....

[Clunkmeister]

13 minutes ago, TJTX said:

Stupid statement, but I honestly had no idea Canada ever had a carrier.  I also thought a Felixstowe had a bleed air line for awhile.....

Up until the 1970s. 

And the bleed air on the Felix was amazingly hilarious!

[Jeff]

38 minutes ago, TJTX said:

Stupid statement, but I honestly had no idea Canada ever had a carrier.  I also thought a Felixstowe had a bleed air line for awhile.....

Had two actually, Magnificent, and Bonaventure.................... you are probably shaving with them now....  

[harv]

Wow, thanks Ern....harv 

[Clunkmeister]

It’s amazing now long lived the Avenger turned out to be. They soldiered on into the early 60s, and then had new leases on life as mapping aircraft and firefighting aircraft. 

An overlooked design. Too pedestrian for some?

[Winnie]

Awesome pics Ernie! Canadian Naval Aviation is a favorite modelling subject of mine!

[Clunkmeister]

11 minutes ago, Winnie said:

Awesome pics Ernie! Canadian Naval Aviation is a favorite modelling subject of mine!

Thanks Harald!  It’s certainly an overlooked part of North Atlantic defense.  I still marvel at how the operated jet fighters and Trackers off those postage stamps. Hey must have been in hog heaven when they trapped onboard the Big US carriers.

[krow113]

Thanks.

I can almost see Comox from my house.

I see the big Labs overhead every once and a while doing S&R training .

We have an aerodrome here too , used to have a Fly-In and get around 40 planes

[Martinnfb]

Amazing pictures , Thank You Ernie. 

[seiran01]

Great pix for nasal radiation!

*used to live next door to an old PBY pilot before his passing, he always found it amusing to slightly mispronounce naval aviation