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Type: Canadair CF-5A Freedom Fighter single seat light attack warplane. 
Max Speed: 978 mph at 36,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 33,000 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 50,850 ft.
Range: radius of 195 miles.
Armament: two 20-mm cannon, and up to 4,400 lb of disposable stores.
Photo: B Thouanel
This Dutch NF-5A sports the markings of No.316 Squadron, based at Gilze-Rijen until disbandment in 1991.

 
Type: Avro Canada CF-100 Mk 5 Canuck two seat all weather interceptor.
Max Speed: 650 mph at 10,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 30,000 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 54,000 ft.
Range: 2,000 miles.
Armament: 58 2.75-in (70-mm) air to air rockets.
Photo: Coll. B Thouanel
Two CF-100 Mk 4A Canucks of the Royal Canadian Air Force's No.419 Squadron show off the intercepter's side and underside configurations.

 
Type: de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver one /two seat utility light transport.
Max Speed: 163 mph at 5,000 ft.
Climb Rate:1,020 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 18,000 ft.
Range:733 miles.
Payload: is seven passengers or 1,350 lb freight.
Photo: B Thouanel
 
A Beaver in Dutch air force markings.

 
Type: Canadair CL-215 two crew fire bomber and utility transport amphibian.
Max Speed: 181 mph at 10,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,000 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: ??? ft.
Range: 1,301 miles.
Payload: 12,000 lb as a fire bomber or 8,518 lb as a utility areoplane with freight or twenty six passengers.
Photo: B Thouanel
This is one of five CL-215s used to good effect by the government of Yugoslavia for fighting forest fires.

 
Type: de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.Mk 10 two seat primary trainer.
Max Speed: 138 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 800 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 15,800 ft.
Range: 280 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: RAF Museum
During the early 1950s the Chipmunk T.Mk 10 replaced Tiger Moths in the RAF's university air squadrons and reserve flying school.

 
Type: Canadair CT-133 Silver Star Mk 3 two seat advanced trainer.
Max Speed 600 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 4,870 ft per min. 
Service Ceiling: 47,000 ft.
Range: 1,345 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: B Thouanel
Though externally indistinguishable from the original "T-bird", the Silver Star Mk 3 was revised internally to accommodate a British engine. 

 

  
Type: Canadair CL-41 Tutor two seat trainer.
Max Speed: 495 mph at 28,500 ft.
Climb Rate: 4,250 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 43,000 ft.
Range: 625 miles. 
Armament: none.
Photo: B Thouanel
For Mmany years the CT-114 has been the mount of the "Snowbirds", the celebrated acrobatic display teem of the Canadian Armed Forces.

 
Type: de Havilland Canada CC-132 two/three crew utility transport.
Max Speed: 266 mph at 8,000 ft.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 27,000 ft.
Range: 1,347 miles.
Payload 50 passengers or 11,310 lb freight.
Photo:Coll B Thouanel
A CC-132 utility transport of the Canadian Armed Forces.

 

 
Type: de Havilland Canada DHC-4A  Carbou two/three seat crew tactical transport.
Max Speed: 216 mph at 6,500 ft.
climb Rate: 1,355 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 24,800 ft.
range: 242 miles.
Payload: 32 troops, or 26 paratroops or 22 litters plus attendants, or 8,740 lb of freight.
Photo: Coll. B Thouanel
A DHC-4A Caribou of the Royal Australian air force, which operates 17 examptes of the type in the unility transport role.

 
Type: de Havilland Canada Twin Otter Series 300 0ne/two crew STOL utility transport.
Max Speed: 210 mph at 10,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 1,600 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 26,700 ft.
Range: 115 miles.
Payload 20 passengers or 4,280 lb of freight.
Photo: M. Rostaing
This is a Twin Otter of the French air force at take off.

 

 

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