SEA DRAGON 2022 ASW AIRCRAFT and CREWS For the second year in a row, a team from 407 Long Range Patrol Squadron at 19 Win g Comox, British Columbia, has shown itself to be a lethal submarine hunter. Operating over a training range near the island of Guam in the...
The Lockheed Aurora is a long-range maritime patrol aircraft (LRPA) used in the Canadian Armed Forces for antisubmarine warfare (ASW) and maritime surveillance. The Aurora entered service in 1980 and replaced the CP-107 Argus. Thanks to structural improvements and the...
In April 2021, our MAVA secretary received an email from Peter Merchant in Calgary, AB offering a scanned copy of a photograph of the 1947 inaugural meeting of the “Maritime Aviation Association”. Mr. Merchant explained that his father, Bob Merchant, third row second...
The CP-140M is the final version of the Aurora Incremental Modernization Program (AIMP) in which some components of the airframe were replaced and the original electronics were updated with state-of-the-art avionics and sensors. The Aurora first entered service with...
On 28 September 2019, the National Air Force Museum of Canada, located at 8 Wing Trenton, ON inducted two maritime aircraft into the museum’s air park. Earlier in the year a crew from MH 443 at Pat Bay, BC delivered Sea King 12405 to the museum. Sea King 12405...
CH-148 Cyclone In Flight First Cyclone deployment “outstanding” – from the Royal Canadian Air Force During Operation Reassurance, HMCS Ville de Québec’s CH-148 Cyclone helicopter flew 170 missions including surveillance and maritime security patrols,...
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