A Noorduyn Norseman bush plane, suspended inside the atrium of Suncor’s office building in downtown Calgary for the last 40 years, is moving out. In fact, it is returning to a home it once knew – Calgary’s Hangar Flight Museum.
The 78-year-old airplane is being donated to the museum by Brookfield Properties, the owners of the office building. It was purchased from the museum in 1982 for display in the atrium.
“Our plan for the next few years is to rotate that plane to be on display in our historic main hangar while in the meantime we’ll continue our capital campaign for a permanent structure with more space,” said the museum’s executive director Brian Desjardins. “Our friends Rangeland Truck and Train, out of Airdrie, who’s moved a lot of our aircraft, including the Hawker Hurricane recently, they’ll be moving it to the offsite storage.”
There are reportedly only 49 remaining of the Canadian-designed and manufactured Noorduyn C-64 Norseman anywhere in the world.