A Visit to
By Mick Boulanger (images by author and Mark Ray)
During May 2006 a visit to Canada
was undertaken by Mark Ray and I, the visit was superb, we went for one week,
but we did get to see a lot of good places in a short time.
We were fortunately able to be given
a guided tour of CFB Borden which is about 100km North of
The airfield now is used by No.16
Wing, part of which is the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Technology and
Engineering which is similar to our RAF Cosford in the
Outside the main Head Quarters
CF-104 Starfighter 104792
CP-121 Tracker 1507
CF100 Canuck 100493
CF-101F Voodoo 101011
CF-86 Sabre 23228
Also located around the base are:
CH-118 Iroquois 118109 (with the boom off 118105)
marked ABDR71
CH-136 Kiowa 136244 Marked 775C
CH-136 Kiowa (Unknown) Marked
“136288”
CF-116 Freedom Fighter 116769
Inside the
CH-113A Voyager
CT-114 Tutor (Those in bold are in
the Snowbirds Colour scheme)
(C) = Cockpit only, any aircraft
carrying are marked as so.
114011 - 5/926B 114023 114026 (C) 114039 - 933B
114040 (C) 114043 - 889B 114049 - 10 114062
114164 114066 114069 - 891B 114080
- 2/927B
114087 114091 - 989B 114092 (C) 114112
114105 (C) 114112 114119
- A901 114134 - A894
114139 - 937B 114151 114163
- 935B 114164 (C)
114175 - 938B 114181
CF-116D Freedom Fighter
CF-188A Hornet
CH-136 Kiowa
Stored outside on the
field were:
CF116D Freedom
Fighter
CT-133 Silver Star 133443 “
Finally one very bagged
up CF100 Canuck.
Inside the Museum were:
CT-114 Tutor (Prototype)
marked Tutor 153 (Golden Centennaires c/s)
DH82 Tiger Moth 4974
CT-133 Silver Star 133623
Avro 504 G-CYCK (ex
D8971)
I would like to thank our
host the Public Affairs Officer at 16 Wing, Borden for a fantastic day.