Description
North Bay Air field photos with various aircraft.
a) Two Cansos planes.
b) Canso plane.
c) Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra airliner (an American designed and built plane). Used by Trans-Canada Air Lines just before and during the Second World War.
d) A three-man RCAF Bolingbroke bomber that crashed near North Bay during the Second World War, on 6 January, 1942.
e)Lockheed Lodestar airliner. The Lodestars were the main airliner of Trans-Canada Air Lines from 1941 to 1947.
f) The aircraft is a Royal Canadian Air Force Canso from 160 Squadron. Although originally an American design and called at Cataline by the British, the Canadians added landing gear to land and take off from air fields (the airplane was meant to operate from water), and called the airplane 'Canso'. the two single-propeller airplanes in the background are Battles (a British designed airplane used in Canada to train Allied aircrew (not in North Bay) in flying, bombing, navigation, etc. The twin-engins airplane directly under the Canso wing is a Bolingbroke - also a training airplane.
g) RCAF Canso. Canadian built airplane.
i) WACO-PG-21 Powered Glider.Creator
Lorne Hicks
