Oshawa air show features WW II aircraft
Archived Articles | 24 Jun 2005 | Adu RaudkiviEWR
This weekend, June 24, 25 and 26, Oshawa airport, just minutes from Toronto, will host an air show from 1pm to 4pm daily and trade and static show from 9am to 5pm daily.
The airport was used during WW II as a training base where pilots were given their basic training in a de Havilland Tiger Moth. There will be one of those aircrafts at the show, as well the next one that the trainee pilots flew, the North American "Harvard". The Harvard will take people up for tours during the show.
Thousands of people are expected to fly their commercial planes into the airport, and park to enjoy the show. Those driving from Toronto can go east along the 401 to Thickson Road in Oshawa, go north to Taunton Road and East to the airport terminal road.
The air show, for the first time this year, will feature the Avro Lancaster four engine bomber belonging to the Canadian Airplane Heritage Museum. There will also be a T-33 Shooting Star two seater jet trainer, the Tiger Moth, another de Havilland, the small Chipmunk and a WW II Fairey Firefly Navy torpedo bomber, among others. Only on Friday, the Canadian Air Force aerobatic demonstration team, the Snowbirds, will perform.
The static displays will include many, if not all of the aviation products, aircraft on display, associations for pilots and enthusiasts, books and even models and will most likely require a day itself, to go through it.
A fun day might be had by all.
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