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Canadian Air Force takes parts from museum to fix ailing aircraft
The Royal Canadian Air Force has quietly turned to an unusual source for spare parts to keep its venerable search-and-rescue airplanes flying: a museum. In July 2012, air force technicians raided an old Hercules airplane that is on display at the National Air Force Museum of Canada because they needed navigational equipment for a similar aircraft still in use. (ottawacitizen.com) Plus d'info...
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Their Sea Kings are over 50 years old (essentially older than any pilot flying them) and are still operational. The Buffalo aircraft have been flying since the mid sixties and will be 50 years old soon. Supposedly parts can be obtained for them from Viking Air which bought up the rights to the DHC-5 and a number of other DeHavilland models.
FYI, just to let you know, they found lung cancer in me in late July. I have had all kinds of biopsies and scans since then. Surgery in a couple of weeks. They said slow growing and not in lymph nodes. Surgeon says upper lobe, maybe whole lung but he won't know until he gets in there. I'll let you know.
Hilarious....but not really....Putin must be shaking in his boots at our ability to defend our claim on the Northwest Passage.
They could have just called us - we have stacks of Herky parts
Parts is parts as long as they work. Maybe check Tucson?
Not that unusual an occurrence.
