Several Chipmunks expected to arrive at the War Plane at the end of August

By Gazette Staff

July 18th, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

Come out on August 29 to experience the excitement of our Warbird Fly-In!

DHC-1 Chipmunk, designed as a primary trainer.

We are expecting a variety of restored vintage military aircraft and will also be highlighting the 80^th Anniversary of the first flight of the de Havilland Canada Chipmunk. Several Chipmunks are expected to attend.

Please note that a fly-in is NOT an air show.

Visiting aircraft will arrive and depart throughout the day.

While parked, visitors will get the opportunity to view these aircraft up close.

The Chipmunk was the first postwar aviation project conducted by De Havilland Canada. It was introduced into operational service that same year. The DHC-1 Chipmunk, designed as a primary trainer,is an all-metal, low-wing, tandem two-place, single-engined airplane with a conventional landing gear, powered by a De Havilland Gipsy Major engine. De Havilland built 217 in Canada. It was also produced under licence by De Havilland in the UK, which produced 1,000, and by OGMA in Portugal, which built an additional 66.

The Chipmunk served with the RCAF, the Royal Air Force (RAF), and at least twelve other air forces. After being largely phased out by the RAF and RCAF in the 1950s and 1960s, surplus Chipmunks achieved widespread popularity for civil sport flying, competition aerobatics, and even glider towing.

EXPECTED FLY-IN AIRCRAFT*: de Havilland Canada Chipmunk x 8, Timmermans Legends of Flight (Supermarine Spitfire, North American P-51 Mustang, and Hawker Sea Fury), Fleet Finch, Fairchild Cornell, Westland Lysander, Great War Flying Museum (Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, Fokker DR1 Triplane, and Nieuport 28), Bucker Jungmann, BAC Jet Provost, Canadair T-33 Silver Star, North American Harvard, North American T-28 Trojan.(Updated May 22/26).

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