Brandon brings you back - Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum brings you back to the 1940s...
Experience Canada's only Air Museum dedicated solely to those who trained and fought for the British Commonwealth during the 1939-1945 War. This World War II Royal Canadian Air Force training site showcases aircrafts, artifacts, memorabilia and special exhibits.
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Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - Brandon Manitoba
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is a large aviation museum located on a former British Commonwealth Air Training base in Brandon Manitoba. Its five buildings including a large, vintage, 20,000 square foot hangar, hold the museums collection of 20 WWII aircraft and over 30,000 artifacts and archival items. With a mandate of preserving the memory of the Royal Canadian Air Force and other Commonwealth Air Forces men and women who trained and provided training there, visitors enjoy an intersting and informative visit.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - Brandon Manitoba
Jack Stacy was an air gunner in a RCAF Halifax during World War II. He trained in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Brandon Manitoba and Macdonald Manitoba before being posted to an operation squadron in England. His video gives a good account of being an air gunner in a WWII bomber.
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is a large aviation museum located on a former British Commonwealth Air Training base in Brandon Manitoba. Its five buildings including a large, vintage, 20,000 square foot hangar, hold the museums collection of 20 WWII aircraft and over 30,000 artifacts and archival items. With a mandate of preserving the memory of the Royal Canadian Air Force and other Commonwealth Air Forces men and women who trained and provided training there, visitors enjoy an intersting and informative visit.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - Brandon Manitoba
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is a large aviation museum located on a former British Commonwealth Air Training base in Brandon Manitoba. Its five buildings including a large, vintage, 20,000 square foot hangar, hold the museums collection of 20 WWII aircraft and over 30,000 artifacts and archival items. With a mandate of preserving the memory of the Royal Canadian Air Force and other Commonwealth Air Forces men and women who trained and provided training there, visitors enjoy an intersting and informative visit.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - Brandon Manitoba
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is a large aviation museum located on a former British Commonwealth Air Training base in Brandon Manitoba. Its five buildings including a large, vintage, 20,000 square foot hangar, hold the museums collection of 20 WWII aircraft and over 30,000 artifacts and archival items. With a mandate of preserving the memory of the Royal Canadian Air Force and other Commonwealth Air Forces men and women who trained and provided training there, visitors enjoy an intersting and informative visit.
Brandon Manitoba -- The Commonwealth Air Training Plan
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan was established in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada from 1939 to 1945 where British, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Air Personnel came to train as part of the Allied Air Forces. The World War 2 Hanger has now been converted to a Museum with planes, vehicles, photographs and war time memorabilia. For more information: visit ontopoftheworld.net and check out episode #54 in the Railway Adventures across Canada category.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon MB
A brief look at the air museum at Brandon Airport in Manitoba.
Air Display at Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum 2019 is a nice place to visit in Brandon, MB!!
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is an aviation museum located at Brandon Municipal Airport, Brandon, Manitoba. It is dedicated to the memory of the airmen from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, who trained at World War II air stations across Canada. The museum in stage 1 of redevelopment, which will see it restored to include the main hangar, medical building, chapel, H-hut aircrew barracks, motor pool building, canteen, and interpretive center.
The museum contains several World War II aircraft, displays of navigation, pilot, bombardier, ground crew and transport equipment, various artifacts, and a gift shop. The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. (Yah, this paragraph is copy & past from Wikipedia)
If you are into small airplanes, it's a place for you to visit in Brandon, MB.
Here is the website for the museum,
Vernon Watson - Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - Brandon Manitoba
Vernon Watson joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during and graduated from the BACATP as a bomb aimer with a Flying Officer's commission. He joined the 138 Special Duties Squadron flying supplies to the underground organizations in Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France.
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is a large museum dedicated to remembering those who trained in Canada for the Commonwealth Air Forces.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - Brandon Manitoba
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is a large aviation museum located on a former British Commonwealth Air Training base in Brandon Manitoba. Its five buildings including a large, vintage, 20,000 square foot hangar, hold the museums collection of 20 WWII aircraft and over 30,000 artifacts and archival items. With a mandate of preserving the memory of the Royal Canadian Air Force and other Commonwealth Air Forces men and women who trained and provided training there, visitors enjoy an intersting and informative visit.
Commonwealth Air Training Museum, Brandon Manitoba
Commonwealth Air Training Museum, Brandon Manitoba
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Motion Book
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is located in Brandon, Manitoba and this Motion Book has been edited using footage from the Time Tourist episode on the subject of the museum that is currently showing on MTS TV, Winnipeg On Demand.
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum
This is a video on the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum in Brandon Manitoba. I did this for my digital video class.
Australian Airmen Go To Canada To Train Under Empire Air Scheme
Cadets of the Royal Australian Airforce are going to Canada for training, under the Empire Air Scheme.
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36 OTU Greenwood Part 2: Life On Base
This is part 2 of a 2-part series produced for the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum in Greenwood, Nova Scotia. It details the influence of the No. 36 Operational Training Unit of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in the training of pilots for the Second World War.
Prairie Places: Brandon Air Museum
In Brandon, Manitoba, the historic hanger of the Number 12 Service Flying Training School has gained a second life as the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum celebrating the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force flight school in Manitoba. This Prairie Public Classic feature was first aired in 1991.
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Training for Freedom: The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan - History Matters
It's 1939. A momentous agreement, known as the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, is signed between the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Canada to rapidly increase the Allies' air combat resources.
Canada is chosen as The Plan's primary site because of its ample supplies of fuel and industrial facilities, its wide-open spaces and the unlikelihood of an enemy attack.
During its five-year execution, the Plan exceeds all expectations with the training of more than 130,000 aircrew and some 44,000 ground crew including 17,000 women. Of all the newly trained pilots, half are Canadian.
It's a life-altering event for 231 training sites, across Canada, which are invaded with the constant drone of aircraft, and men and women from all over the country and the commonwealth. They all come together, bound under one purpose...to defeat the Germans in the skies.
Sir Winston Churchill would later refer to the Plan as Canada's greatest contribution to the Allies' victory.
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Sir Robert Menzies, Empire Air Training Scheme
Sir Robert Menzies, Empire Air Training Scheme speech circa December 1939.
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