A small RCAF detachment, consisting out of 4x silver T-Birds and 2x CC-117s was present this cloudy day. In the background a HH-3A of the 39th ARRS/Det. 5 is seen arriving. 133571 was accepted as 21571 by the RCAF on 13 Mar'57. It was reserialled to 133571 on 10 Nov'70 and withdrawn from service at CFB Greenwood. Was sold to Air Combat Warfare International of Kitchener (ON) in 2002 and became N571KK on 6 May'04, but was stored at CFD Mountain View. Transferred to Military Restoration Corp. Anaheim (CA) as N571KK by Dec'08. To Comanche Fighters of Houston (TX) in Jan'11. Still current in '25

DND photo.

Del 20 Apr 1956 Test Registration as 21560 Former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) as 21560, 133560, Aircraft Restoration Corp. as N560KK

Del 15 Mar 1955 Test Registration as 21479 Former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) as 21479,133479, Air Combat Warfare International of Kitchener,Military Aircraft Restoration Corp as N479KK

DND photo.

DND photo.

Stored outside at CFD Mountain View by June 2005. On US register as N133MQ by summer of 2007.

With 414 Squadron CFB Comox 1982-1989. Still there in 1995. Stored Reserve at Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment at CFB Cold Lake in 2002. Stored outside at CFD Mountain View by June 2005. Registered to Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association of Tillsonburg, ON as C-FUPP on 25 August 2008.

In service with the Canadian Air force 1955 - circa 2001. Sold to Air Combat Warfare International of Kitchener, ON, the T-Bird was assigned registration N479KK, but remained stored until moving to California in 2005 registered to Military Aircraft Restoration Corp collection (known in the 1970s as Yesterday's Air Force). Privately owned after 2011, it's current on the US register as N479KK in Texas at the time of uploading.

Photographer Kenneth M. Hare

Photo by MCpl.Vic Johnson, Canadian Armed Forces

The Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment retired the last T-33 from the Canadian Air Force in 2005 (133648). This one was stored until sold as a warbird in the USA in 2008. Initially registered N133MQ, it's N133EM at the time of uploading.

Canadian T-Bird awaits it's crew for an afternoon mission

414Sqn CE-133 sitting between sorties on the North Island ramp