2 Mystery headgear seeking identification?

[David Dunlop]

An Avro Anson would be my first guess, Rob, based on surviving round fuselage windows. Possibly built by MacDonald Bros in Winnipeg.

The Anson is also one of the possibilities for the ones reportedly sitting underwater here in Manitoba, as you and Derk may recall.

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

An Avro Anson would be my first guess, Rob, based on surviving round fuselage windows. Possibly built by MacDonald Bros in Winnipeg.

The Anson is also one of the possibilities for the ones reportedly sitting underwater here in Manitoba, as you and Derk may recall.

David, Avro Anson - of course!

Here's Derk in a couple of years time:

"Sergeant, No. 14 (P) Squadron, RCAF, installing a vertical camera in an Avro Anson V, Rockcliffe, Ont., 4 July 1944"
AvroAnsonCameraInstallJuly1944.jpg

[rob love]

Anson it is. And likely a local connection too.

Derk can have Rob Fast over (who is an RCAF enthusiast) and they can work on it.

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Someone wants their property cleaned up. I'd say go and grab it before it gets scrapped

It should be safe. The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is nearby in Brandon. Unless someone with deep pockets wants to empty them, I have no doubt it will end up in their boneyard. I have gone to a few local auctions at farmsites and seen other fuselages hiding out back, and the answer is always the same. They are holding or storing it for the CATP museum.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

Anson it is. And likely a local connection too.

Derk can have Rob Fast over (who is an RCAF enthusiast) and they can work on it.

Sidetracking...it's a Mk.V or Mk.VI which was the Canadian improvement over the imported tube and fabric British ones. My favorite Anson story is when Britain shipped a batch of them to Canada as trainers for the BCATP. The RAF mechanics took them apart for shipping and to save time and maybe effort they didn't include the nuts and bolts. It would be easy to get them locally in Canada was their thinking. Well except that North American and British threads are not compatible.

[rob love]

Another meandering MLU thread. Starts with a question about a helmet liner and finds it's way over to stories about aircraft. I think that is why I like this site over all others. I guess it's time to make an overdue donation to the site.

[Grant Bowker]

Low wing, twin engine (radials), training (yellow) aircraft. Not a Cessna AT-17 Bobcat/Crane (sometimes called a bamboo bomber due to wood used in construction) due to window configuration.