For the historically minded, here is a link to the story of WW1 trophy aircraft which were taken to Canada after WW1. Among the trophies were aircraft which exist no where else in the world.


Canada's postwar aircraft

Some really nice info and images there. The shots of Barkers Snipe come in very handy – Thanks for sharing the link!

Mikael

You're welcome. T he link is to the Vintage Wings website near Ottawa. The have among others a Fairey Swordfish, Hawker Hurricane Mk. II, a Spitfire Mk. IX, a Mustang, a P-40, and an F86 Sabre jet. they have other craft as well. They have a very good website.

Intersting read. Too bad Leckie didn't have the foresight to cherish what Doughty had collected for Canada. I can only imagine the midnight behind the scenes negotiating to get those a/c only to have Leckie destroy them. Thank goodness someone hung on to one of the DVII's and the AEG, wrong motors notwithstanding.

Best

Mark

Thanks for the link.
The story and photos are very interesting.

Cheers,
C.

The really interesting portion for me is the Canadian Fokker D.VII aircraft of course. Our foundation has a side panel from D.8492/18. McKeever is standing by D.8493/18. The motor from 8493/18 wound up in the Czech Replica from Early Birds.

TVAL is building a replica late model Fokker D.VII(OAW) 8609/18 that Barker used post war.

TVAL Fokker D.VII.

Images from his site posted with Mr. Dumigan's permission.




Spoils of War depicting one of the aircraft Barker used post war.

Fokker D.VII (OAW) 8609/18 sits outside a hangar in Leaside, assembled and ready to be flown by the pilots of Bishop-Barker Aeroplanes Limited.



Taken at Armour Heights, built during the war another airfield in Toronto, William Barker is running up the Mercedes engine in the Fokker D.VII that he flew during the Toronto-New York Air Race of August 1919. The large ‘50’ painted on the underside of the wings and fuselage was his race number.

Check out the lozenge locations on the fuselage sides. Evidently not the same machine.