Welcome to CH2A
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 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
"Through the generosity of the Trillium Foundation
we have been able to place a new hangar door, while still retaining the
original hangar doors".
b.
we
own a 1941
Boeing Stearman and two DeHavilland
Chipmunks which we actively fly and maintain,plus a T33
jet for static display;
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 2003;
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 two years.
At the present time we have 150+ 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
We have accomplished a great deal over the past few
years and look forward to even greater things to come.
S.Michael Beale
President,Canadian
Historical Aircraft Association