Bomber Command Museum of Canada (Nanton)

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Highway #2 at 17th Street
PO Box 1051,
Nanton, Alberta Canada T0L1R0
+1 403-646-2270
www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/

Renamed 'Bomber Command Museum of Canada' in May 2010

Formed in 1986 to restore and display a preserved Avro Lancaster bomber. The museum's goals are to honour those associated with Bomber Command and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during World War II. The museum is operated by The Nanton Lancaster Society.

As well as it's centrepiece Avro Lancaster Mk X (built in 1945 by Victory Aircraft in Canada), the museum's collection includes: Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson Mk II, Beechcraft-18 Expeditor, Bristol Bolingbroke (restored to Blenheim Mk IV specs), Canadair CT-114 Tutor, de Havilland Tiger Moth, Fairchild Cornell, Fleet Fawn, North American Harvard Mk IV (built by Canadian Car and Foundry), Avro Canada CF-100 (displayed on a pedestal outside the hangar), Canadair CT-133 Silver Star (also on a pedestal), North American Yale, Vickers Viking replica (on loan to Alberta Aviation Museum), and a Westland Lysander 2/3 scale replica. BCMC also has a large collection of aircraft engines, some of which have been cut away to display their internal workings. Several fully-restored vehicles associated with the WWII British Commonwealth Air Training Plan are also displayed: 1942 Ford aerodrome crash truck, 1941 Dodge fuel bowser, 1943 Ford fire truck, and 1941 Ford F-60 transport.

BCMC has partnered with Calgary Mosquito Society to restore a de Havilland Mosquito PR.35, owned by City of Calgary, to engine-running condition. The aircraft arrived at Nanton in summer 2012. The museum will also restore the engine of the City's Hawker Hurricane to running condition (that aircraft is being restored in Wetaskiwin AB).

The museum is also working in association with Halifax 57 Rescue (Canada) towards an ultimate goal to rebuild/restore and display a very rare Handley-Page Halifax bomber.