Canada Aviation Museum
In Ottawa, Ontario
The Canada Aviation Museum is dedicated to the history of aviation. Though it places an emphasis on Canada’s role, the museum celebrates aircraft and aviation achievements all over the world.
The museum’s collection includes 130 aircraft from all time periods, including the P-40 Curtiss, Consolidated PBY-5A, de Havilland Twin Otter, Hawker Hurricane XII, and Messerschmitt Me 163B-1a Komet. In addition to the impressive number of airplanes on display, the Canada Aviation Museum also has thousands of books and periodicals, technical manuals, and more than 35,000 research images.
The Canada Aviation Museum offers several workshops with 30 variations of aviation programs for kids. “Adventures in a Bush Plane” and “Earn Your Pilot’s Wings” are just two of those offered. Some of them, such as the “Earn Your Pilots Wings program” are interactive. Included as part of the activities, children are encouraged to sit in the cockpit of a real airplane. On Thursday mornings, a bilingual program is available.
The museum also offers the “Night Flight Sleepover Program” for children ages 5-18. For adults, programs include the Vintage Flying Experience during which a privately operated charter company provides an exciting sight seeing trip in a de Havilland Canada Chipmunk.
“Let There Be Flight” is an exhibit dedicated to Orville and Wilbur Wright and their aviation achievements. “The People in Aviation Exhibit” features, “High Flyers: Canadian Women in Aviation”. The “High Flyers” focuses on women pilots and their contributions to the world of aviation.The admission price for the Canada Aviation Museum is $6 for adults and $5 for students. (Prices subject to change) The Café La Vigilance offers light meals and snacks and the Aeronautica Boutique Gift Shop is also on premises. Free parking is available at the museum, and children’s strollers are available for visitors at no charge.
The Canada Aviation Museum is located at 11 Aviation Parkway in Ottawa, Ontario. You can reach them by phone at 613-993-2010 or toll free in Canada at 1-800-463-2038. Their e-mail address is aviation@technomuses.ca. Visit them on the Web at http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/.
The museum is closed Monday and Tuesday except on holidays, Remembrance Day (November 11) and school breaks. Regular hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Between May 1 and Labour Day, hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Closed Christmas Day, but open on New Year's Day.
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