The Canadian Historical Aircraft Association,CH2A,was officially incorporated as a non-profit organization in March, 1995 with a mission statement of:
"To Honour Canadian Veterans by Preserving,Maintaining,Restoring,Displaying,and Demonstrating antique or vintage military and civilian aircraft and artefacts considered important to Canadian aviation history".
In striving to meet our objectives we have to date accomplished the following:
- A. we own and operate out of a WW2 hangar built at the Windsor airport in 1941 to house
- B. we own a
- C. we have agreements to fly and demonstrate a 1936 Fleet Fawn and a J-3 Cub which are privately owned;
- D. we are building a WW2 DeHavilland Mosquito Bomber literally from scratch, and hope to start putting the pieces together in 2008;
- E. We maintain the City of Windsors Lancaster,to be restored and placed in a Museum.
- F. we have demonstrated and flown our aircraft in a number of air displays, parades and open house days over the past few years.
At the present time we have 200+ active members working at the various projects and have plans to eventually construct a New Museum to house our present aircraft and others that we hope to acquire. A new building would also accommodate a military library,archive, display area and gift shop. The building would be open to the public on a continual basis and become another major tourist attraction for the Windsor and Essex County area.
We have accomplished a great deal over the past few years and look forward to even greater things to come.
"Through the generosity of the Trillium Foundation we have been able to place a new hangar door, while still retaining the original hangar doors".
Denis SchryerPresident,Canadian Historical Aircraft Association