Air museum acquires 2nd Fleet Finch trainer plane
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A new plane is set to land at Brandon’s Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum.
The museum announced Wednesday that it has acquired a second Fleet Model 16B Finch, a plane used for training during the Second World War.
The plane is expected to arrive to the museum within a week.
A Fleet Model 16B Finch plane, built in 1940. (Supplied)
“These aircraft represent an important part of the early training experience of RCAF pilots,” Jeff Bell, chief pilot and head of the museum’s flying committee, said in the press release.
The yellow biplane was built in 1940 in Fort Erie, Ont., and served with No. 3 Flying Instructors School at Arnprior, Ont., part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The plane was “struck off strength” in 1944 and sold as surplus to Mexico.
The plane was restored to RCAF condition in 1994 by a Canadian and changed hands before it was donated to the museum.
The museum’s director general said the aircraft represents the “knowledge, ingenuity and dedication of generations of people who built, maintained and flew” the planes.
“Keeping that history alive is at the heart of what we do,” Zoe McQuinn said.
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