February 18, 2025:
North America’s Largest Fleet Of The Workhorse Trainers
The Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association (CHAA) is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025 with a number of special events planned including a FREE ADMISSION Open House Fly Day on Saturday July 5, 2025.
The association is based at Tillsonburg Regional Airport (ICAO: CYTB) in Tillsonburg, Ontario, and is home to the largest fleet of Harvards in North America. It has eight Harvards and one Yale, the lower-powered and less expensive version of the Harvard. Some of the CHAA aircraft were built by North American Aviation in Inglewood, California.
As readers may know, the Harvard is a North American Aviation-designed pilot trainer for the military. In the U.S. they were designated variously as the AT-6 by the Army Air Corps and the SNJ by the Navy. The British Commonwelath air forces designated them as Harvards.
The Harvards are now 80 years old and was the workhorse of the Canada’s pilot training program during World War II. They played a crucial training role for the Royal Canadian Air Force under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada. The aircraft trained more than 130,000 Canadian and Allied air crews including pilots, navigators, gunners, and engineers from around the world.
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