Canadian Military Aircraft: Aircraft of the Canadian Armed Forces, Serials and Photographs, 1968–1998

Sidney Allinson is Canadian news correspondent for Britain’s The Army
Quarterly and Defence. He is the author of The Bantams: The Untold Story
of World War I, Jeremy Kane, and Kruger’s Gold: A Novel of the
Anglo-Boer War.

This remarkably detailed book provides a unique compendium of every
aircraft type that was in service with the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF)
during the 30-year period following unification in 1968. Its three
co-authors show not only a wide knowledge of historic military aircraft;
they also demonstrate an astonishing level of diligence in the research
required to compile such a wealth of minute details.

The 90-page collection of photographs alone will make this book well
worthwhile to aircraft buffs. They depict numerous aircraft types, most
of which have passed into history and are not widely known today.

Probably even more valuable to serious researchers are the book’s
painstakingly compiled registers. Thousands of details are presented in
columnar form—by aircraft type, serial number, when taken on and
struck off charge, subsequent re-registration, and so forth. These
statistics also itemize previous aircraft of the Royal Canadian Navy,
Royal Air Force, United States Air Force, United States Navy,
instructional types, and gliders of the Air Cadets League, plus several
other classifications. As a bonus, aircraft with Canadian civil
registrations operated at the Canadian Aviation Training Centre at
Southport, Manitoba, are also included.