Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park
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The Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park, in Winnipeg, Manitoba displays aircraft and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The park contains memorials to Canadian air search and rescue, to aircraft maintenance personnel, and to the people who trained under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The museum was established in 1975. Memorials in the park were dedicated in 1999.
The air park has a large permanent display of Canadian military aircraft on the ground and mounted on pedestals. The indoor portion in the Bishop Building of 1 Canadian Air Division has artifacts such as aviation art, displays highlighting the seven Victoria Crosses awarded to Canadian Airmen, including the posthumous awards to Andrew Mynarski and David Hornell, and one of the remaining Battle of Britain lace tapestries.
Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.