“DOUBLE TROUBLE TWO” P-51 Mustang to Visit YQG

“Double Trouble Two”, a North American P-51 Mustang, will be making its first official visit to Windsor, piloted by Mackenzie Cline. The plane will be on display at the Canadian Aviation Museum (formally the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association) to visitors on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021, between 10 am – 3 pm., the last guided tour of the hangar leaves at 2:30pm) Admission for adults is $11 + tax, students, $9 + tax and the family rate is $27 + tax (spouse and children under 18). Members, veterans, and children (under 6) are free.

The estimated time of arrival/possible cancelation of the Mustang visit is subject to weather

P-51 Mustang, “Double Trouble Two”, is a retired RCAF aircraft which served in the 416 Uplands Squadron from 1952-1957 before being retired after an accident. The mustang was acquired in August of 2020 out of Baden, Germany. It was crated and shipped by sea to Florida where it underwent an extensive restoration. It arrived late in the summer of 2021 to CYCK Chatham-Kent and its new owner, Peter Timmermans of Blenheim, Ontario, an aviation enthusiast, and pilot.

The Canadian Aviation Museum, founded in 1993 as the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association (CH2A), is a charitable, non-profit organization whose mandate is to acquire, document and preserve a collection of antique or vintage military and civilian aircraft important to Canadian aviation history. Home to Windsor’s own Lancaster bomber and Mosquito KB161 and located at the west end of Windsor International Airport, just south of Airport Road, it occupies the original hangar of #7 Elementary Flying Training School which was built in 1940 as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.