This website is an information site to inform and educate the public of our association, its mission statement, its history, aircraft, activities and events, projects, future plans and membership opportunities.
We want to inform and educate the public, worldwide, of our association and the need to be involved as a member, financial supporter or sponsor. The idea is to encourage participation and support in what we do, especially in "honouring our Veterans".
All associations such as the CH2A are only successful with a thriving membership, so growth is important. As far as membership growth, we need members with various technical skills and abilities, as well as unskilled volunteers capable of undertaking projects and work under the supervision of our technical folks.
The CH2A regularly has tour groups of children from kindergarten through grade 8, high school students and all ages after that right up through the elderly. All ages have something to gain from interest in aviation and what the association represents, especially our recurring theme of honouring Veterans.
The Canadian Historical Aircraft Association, CH2A, was officially incorporated as a non-profit organization in March, 1995 with a mission statement of:
"To Honour Canadian Veterans by preserving, maintaining, restoring, displaying,and demonstrating antique or vintage military and civilian aircraft and artefacts considered important to Canadian aviation history".
In striving to meet our objectives we have to date accomplished the following:
- CH2A owns and operates out of a WW2 hangar built at the Windsor airport in 1941 to house #7 Elementary Flying Training School part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
- We own a 1941 Boeing Stearman and two DeHavilland Chipmunks which we actively fly and maintain,plus a T33 jet for static display;
- We have agreements to fly and demonstrate a 1936 Fleet Fawn and a J-3 Cub which are privately owned;
- CH2A is building a WW2 DeHavilland Mosquito Bomber literally from scratch, and hope to start putting the pieces together in 2008;
- We maintain the City of Windsors Lancaster, to be restored and placed in a Museum.
- CH2A have demonstrated and flown our aircraft in a number of air displays, parades and open house days over the past few years.
At the present time we have 200+ active members working at the various projects and have plans to eventually construct a New Museum to house our present aircraft and others that we hope to acquire. A new building would also accommodate a military library,archive, display area and gift shop. The building would be open to the public on a continual basis and become another major tourist attraction for the Windsor and Essex County area.
We have accomplished a great deal over the past few years and look forward to even greater things to come.
"Through the generosity of the Trillium Foundation we have been able to place a new hangar door, while still retaining the original hangar doors".
Denis Schryer
President,Canadian Historical Aircraft Association
