CF-DEZ
Taylorcraft BC-12D
(c/n 7730)
CF-DEZ was one of
seven such aircraft imported all at one time in 1947. The
Canadian market
was quite good for the U.S. manufacturers in the immediate post war
period. This machine was
owned by a private party in
Staffordville, although when Peter Keating took this shot of it at
Montreal
in the early 1950s, it appeared to
be not too active. However, in March 2011
I heard from Tom
Munroe who
owned the diminutive craft in the early 1980s. It had undergone a
restoration and Tom
even flew
it to the 1982 Oshkosh Show where it
remained all week on display in the Classics section.
Today it
is still current and
registered (as C-FDEZ of course) to a private owner in the Toronto
suburb
of Markham, Ontario.
(at Buttonville Airport?)