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Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWH) RCAF Air Transport Group Display

The nose section of Boeing 727 c/n 19.890. This aircraft was built in 1968 for United Airlines, then converted to freighter configuration for Fed Ex in 1979 as N112FE and finally to Morningstar Air Express as C-GBWA from 2003 - 2005. After retirement from active service the aircraft was donated to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum and spend a long time on the museum ramp before being scrapped. Now only the cockpit section is preserved as a display in the museum. It has been repainted to represent a Canadian Armed Forces B-707 (CC-137), and the interior has been set up to present the history of Air Transport Group (ATG) from 1924 to present. To create the display, the interior of the 727 fuselage section was cleaned up. All the rough edges, wire lines and other extra material were removed. Since this model of the 727 was a cargo variant, the interior of the cabin was re-covered with special quilted canvas material. Carpet was installed and the display wall was constructed to hang the paintings. Each painting is described on information plates set on the cabinet in front of the display wall. There are nine acrylic paintings in various sizes by CAAA member Grant Gulland on the display wall each depicting one or a group of the 20 most famous aircraft that were flown by the RCAF since 1924. There were a few variants of them not included and helicopters will be added later. Scroll down this page to see larger versions of the paintings. On the left-hand side of the forward bulkhead wall between the entry door and the cockpit door is a mural with the four aircraft flown by RCAF 437 from 1944 to the present. RCAF 437 was chosen because of the connection the Canadian Warplanes Museum has with its C-47 Dakota in the top right part of the panel. The framed piece on the right-hand side of the bulkhead is a brief history of 437. The cabinet the map shows the location of all transport squadrons currently operating I Canada. The newest aircraft flown by transport is a model of the Airbus A330 in a case outside beside the access door of the display. The model was given to CWHM by Airbus, Grant repaired and refinished it in its current colours.

Grant's Paintings

	C-17 Globemaster III by C. Grant Gulland 12 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	Ford Trimotor and Boeing Model 247 by C. Grant Gulland 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	Two Otters and a Noorduyn Norseman by C. Grant Gulland 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	CC-109 Cosmopolitan by C. Grant Gulland 14 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	Challenger, Falcon, and Comet by C. Grant Gulland 24 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	Lockheed Hudson, Beech 18 and Lockheed 10 by C. Grant Gulland 18 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	Bristol Freighter and C-47 Dakota by C. Grant Gulland 18 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	DeHavilland Caribou, Twin Otter, Buffalo and Dash-7 by C. Grant Gulland 24 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	Canadair North Star, Fairchild Flying Boxcar, and Lockheed C-130 Hercules by C. Grant Gulland 24 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas board
	437 Squadron Museum Display Panel by C. Grant Gulland Panel located on the forward bulkhead next to the cockpit door depicting the aircraft of 437 Squadron, from top to bottom: the C-47 Dakota, the CC-109 Yukon, the CC-137 Husky and the CC-150 Polaris. acrylic on masonite