General Aviation Album
  • Home
  • Aircraft Manufacturers
  • Blog
  • Home
  • Aircraft Manufacturers
  • Blog
Picture of Cessna 120 NC41685 on floats
  • Subject Data

  • Image Data

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

  • 7

  • 8

  • 9

  • 10

  • 11

  • 12

  • 13

  • 14

  • 15

  • 16

  • 17

  • 18

  • 19

  • 20

  • 21

  • 22

  • 23

  • 24

  • 25

  • 26

  • 27

  • 28

  • 29

  • 30


  • Aircraft Type: Stits SA-3A Playboy
    Constructor's Number (MSN): 5501
    Place of manufacture: Goderich ON
    Date Built: 1955
    Registration: CF-RAD
    Operator: Canada Aviation and Space Museum
    Previous Identities: CF-IGK-X
    Notes and comments: The first Canadian homebuilt aircraft to be issued a permit to fly following the Second World War. Builder Keith Hopkinson was instrumental in changing Department of Transport attitudes toward homebuilts. CF-RAD was an awared winner at several EAA annual fly-ins in the 1950s.
    ​Acquired by the museum 1978.


  • Photographer: Ian M Macdonald
    Location: Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Reserve Hangar, Rockcliffe ON
    Date Photographed: 25 July 2007
    Original Media: Digital
    Registration: CF-RAD
    Digitized: -
    Posted to GAA: 21 November 2021
    GAA Image Number: 10788-1
    Notes and comments: -

Use this search function to enter any of the references from the Subject or Image Data fields above to find related postings on this site. To narrow your search results, put quotation marks either side of strings of words. (For example, "Cessna 120" instead of just Cessna 120
©2021 - 2023 General Aviation Album
Site powered by SkyGrid Studio