The museum is located at CFB Shearwater

CFB Shearwater

Canadian Forces Base Shearwater , commonly referred to as CFB Shearwater, was a Canadian Forces Base located in Shearwater, Nova Scotia on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour in the Halifax Regional Municipality....

 in Shearwater

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Dartmouth founded in 1750, is a community and planning area of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour, Dartmouth has been nicknamed the City of Lakes after the large number of lakes located in the city.On April 1, 1996, the provincial...

 Nova Scotia. The museum acquires, conserves, organizes, researches and interprets to CF

Canadian Forces

The Canadian Forces , officially the Canadian Armed Forces , are the unified armed forces of Canada, as constituted by the National Defence Act, which states: "The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces."...

 personnel and the public at large for their study, education and enjoyment, artifacts and documents which exemplify the history of Canadian Maritime Military Aviation.

Exhibits

A number of permanent exhibits are featured at the museum with maritime aviation and navel history being a key theme. Included in an exhibit on the HMCS Bonaventure, Canada's last aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...

. The exhibit includes a reconstruction of the briefing room aboard the aircraft carrier, complete with original seats.

Aircraft on Display

• Canadair CT-133 Silver Star
• McDonnell F2H Banshee
• Fairey Firefly
  Fairey Firefly
  The Fairey Firefly was a British Second World War-era carrier-borne fighter aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm ....
  
  
• Harvard
  North American T-6 Texan
  The North American Aviation T-6 Texan was a single-engine advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces, United States Navy, Royal Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1950s...
  
  
• Sikorsky HO4S-3
• Canadair Tutor
• Fairey Swordfish
  Fairey Swordfish
  The Fairey Swordfish was a torpedo bomber built by the Fairey Aviation Company and used by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy during the Second World War...
  
  
• Grumman CP-121 Tracker
• Grumman TBF Avenger
• Piasecki H-25
• Mcdonnel CF-101 Voodoo