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- OBJECT TYPE
- aircraft
- DATE
- 1960–1975
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1994.1048.007
- MANUFACTURER
- Canadian Armed Forces
- MODEL
- Caribou
- LOCATION
- Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 7
- Total Parts
- 28
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Stiff paper card front bears black & white photograph of aircraft in flight; text printed in black ink on reverse.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 13.2 cm
- Width
- 8.3 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Defence CA
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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Unknown - Function
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To provide image and brief description of specific aircraft. - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "CARIBOU/ The De Havilland-built Caribou entered service with/ the RCAF in 1960, flying operationally for 115 Air/ Transport Unit at El Arish as part of the U.N./ Emergency Force in the Middle East. A twin-engine, high-wing transport, designed for use on short run-/ ways, it can take off with maximum loads of three/ tons of freight in less than 500 feet. It is capable/ of carrying 28 fully-equipped paratroops and two/ jeeps a distance of 200 miles and return to base./ CANADIAN/ ARMED/ FORCES" printed in black ink on one side of card. "30759" printed by hand in black ink in lower right corner of card, below printed text.
- Missing
- None: each card is complete in itself.
- Finish
- Stiff paper card front bears black & white photograph of aircraft in flight; text printed in black ink on reverse.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Canadian Armed Forces, Card, circa 1960–1975, Artifact no. 1994.1048, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1994.1048.007/
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