The Jet Aircraft Museum is a charitable foundation

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specializing in

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jet aircraft. The museum is located at the

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. The museum officially opened on 12 September 2009.

Mission

The museum states its mission as: The museum has indicated its intention "JAM will strive to maintain four or more of each type as flying aircraft with a flight of four reflecting authentic Canadian Forces paint schemes." The museum has listed the

CF-100 Canuck The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck (affectionately known as the "Clunk") is a Canadian twinjet interceptor/ fighter designed and produced by aircraft manufacturer Avro Canada. It has the distinction of being the only Canadian-designed fighter to en ...

Canadair Sabre The Canadair Sabre is a Jet aircraft, jet fighter aircraft built by Canadair under licence from North American Aviation. A variant of the North American F-86 Sabre, it was produced until 1958 and used primarily by the Royal Canadian Air Force ...

, F2H-3 Banshee,

CF-101 Voodoo The McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo was an all-weather interceptor aircraft operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Forces between 1961 and 1984. They were manufactured by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri for ...

CF-104 Starfighter The Canadair CF-104 Starfighter (CF-111, CL-90) is a modified version of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter supersonic fighter aircraft built in Canada by Canadair under licence. It was primarily used as a ground attack aircraft, despite being des ...

, CF-5 Freedom Fighter and CT-114 Tutor as being targets for intended acquisition.

Aircraft

The aircraft owned by the museum are: *Canadair CT-133 Silver Star - 3 ex-

aircraft *McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo - 1 *Hawker Hunter - 1 *CT-114 Tutor - 1 *De Havilland Vampire - 1

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Museum T-33 photo

C-FRGA "Mako Shark"
{{Canadian Aviation Museums Aviation history of Canada Aerospace museums in Ontario Military and war museums in Canada Museums in London, Ontario

Mission

Aircraft

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