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    Airframe Family: Nieuport 17
    Latest Model:17 (replica)
    Last Civil Registration:CF-DDK
    Compressed ID:Nieuport 17 (replica) cr CF-DDK
    Latest Owner or Location:Canadian War Museum, Lebretton Flats, Ottawa, Ontario

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    Dates

    Event

    From 1961 to 1967

    Constructed as a 17 (replica).
    Built by American amateur airplane-maker Carl R. Swanson as a flying replica.

    1963

    To National Aviation Museum.

    1963

    Markings Applied: 5-C, B1556
    Painted as the airplane in which the famous Canadian ace William Avery Billy Bishop earned the Victoria Cross.

    May 1967

    First flight.
    Wing Commander Paul A. Hartman took the aircraft on its first flight at Rockcliffe airport.

    30 June 1972

    To National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, ON with new c/r CF-DDK.

    1989

    Crashed.
    At Abbotsford International Air Show.

    Restored.
    National Aviation Museums restoration team rebuilt the aircraft to its current state.

    1 September 1992

    To National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, ON with new c/r CF-DDK.

    1 September 1992

    Operated by NATIONAL AVN MUSEUM.

    Operated by National Aviation Museum.

    1994


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photo taken at the National Aviation Museum.

    December 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario.

    December 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario.

    In the inventory of Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
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    Loaned to Canadian War Museum, Lebretton Flats, Ottawa, ON.
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