David Hills

Digital Manager, Local SEO and 📹 video guy who hangs around vintage airplanes while drinking ☕.

[David Hills @DavidartHills]

Caught both @RCAF_ARC CF-18 Hornet passes over the start of today’s @Ticats game.

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A beautiful fly pass by Avro Lancaster VRA at @CWHM for first flight of the day.
You can follow it on @flightradar24 using C-GVRA.

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Who else likes hearing (🔊Sound On) big radial engines.
Here’s @CWHM’s TBM Avenger chugging past and rumbling overhead.
#avgeek #warbirds

[Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum @CWHM]

We recently welcomed a special guest on board the Lancaster - Trina Scarrow, the winner of our 2025 Win a Flight in the Lancaster contest!
Could you be our next lucky winner?

Make a donation between July 1 and Sept 7/26, and…

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The 2026 special markings on @CWHM’s Avro Lancaster honouring the 55th anniversary of @RCAF_ARC 431 Sqn @CFSnowbirds.
It has the P for Pete nose markings of KB773 - SE-P.
#avgeek

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@kennethca_photo @EAA @CWHM That’s a Royal Canadian Air Force C-17 that visited CWHM for Air Force Day. The C-5 flown by the USAF is much larger.

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@USAS_WW1 @CWHM The wing tips are also retractable floats on this airplane, the outside edge of the wing is shaped like a rather small boat hull, as you can see from this photo of it being partially deployed during maintenance.

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Caught @CWHM’s PBY-5A Canso flying happy passengers over Hamilton this morning.
#avgeek

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@brianKomyathy @RAFMUSEUM @RoyalAirForce You can even get a flight in VR-A.

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It was great to catch the @CFSnowbirds arrival at CWHM in Hamilton last month.

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@515050M @TIP2312 @RCAF_ARC Not regularly. It’s only been held twice in 10 years.

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How low can you go? This is an @RCAF_ARC C-17 on an airshow practice day. Just outside the display area.
#avgeek

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@TIP2312 @RCAF_ARC This was recorded on practice day for the 2024 Quinte International Air Show at CFB 8 Wing Trenton.

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@CraigBaird A quick note, The PBY Catalina was not a biplane as shown in your photo. The Catalina is a monoplane and looks like the PBY Canso at @CWHM.

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@RLitwiller I remember touring it during an RCN anniversary in the ‘80s, I think a Brazilian Niteroi Class Frigate was there that year as well.

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Happy Canada 🇨🇦 Day!
Here’s a couple photos of retro RCAF roundels from a Golden Hawk F-86 Sabre, and a Harvard Trainer, the Lancaster photo bombing a Tutor jet, and one last look at the 431 Squadron @CFSnowbirds.

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@dmytroval @CWHM It regularly flies two sorties a day in the summer season.

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Happy to see Lancaster VR-A up for its second flight of the day! @CWHM

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@DrHelenFry @CWHM Here’s a couple photos of its special for 2026 nose markings and a look at its cockpit, @DrHelenFry.
Thanks for all of your educational posts!

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@Deffusible @CWHM It was in 2014. That was a good tour.