The Aerospace Engineering and Test Establishment’s CF-18 colour jet. Most of AETE’s aircraft, unlike this one, wear regular service markings with a red “X” on the rudder.
The Aerospace Engineering and Test Establishment’s CF-18 colour jet. Most of AETE’s aircraft, unlike this one, wear regular service markings with a red “X” on the rudder.
Sporting Centennial of Flight markings, this 410 Sqn dual was used as a traveling companion and spare for the 2003 demo jet (188720). I’m told ‘906 ran out of airframe hours and was recently scrapped. :(
From 2004 onward, the Canadian Forces have had a single CF-18 demo team, alternating between 410 Sqn at Cold Lake, AB and 425 Sqn at Bagotville, PQ. Hi-viz markings have usually been limited to the tails. :( Here’s the 2004 demo jet, from 425.
Several CF-18s have served as demo aircraft in multiple years. 188796 did so in 2000 and 2001; this is the later version, painted to mark 410 Sqn’s 60th Anniversary. The tail markings show some of the other aircraft the Cougars have flown.
410 Sqn jet painted up for the 75th anniversary of the RCAF and Canadian Forces Air Command in 1999. Trim is RCAF blue, and that’s the RCAF crest and tartan on the tail.
410 Squadron’s demo jet for 1993 was the first CF-18 demo aircraft with airbrushed markings. Given that the previous year’s “special scheme” was a red Maple Leaf tail flash on standard grey markings, this Cougar tail caused a stir when it appeared.
Colour bird from the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment (AETE) at 4 Wing Cold Lake -- the only remaining CF Tutor operator outside of the Snowbirds demonstration team.