The Greenwood Military Aviation Museum is a vibrant organization thanks to the work of many volunteers all with varying interests. One such individual comes all the way from Truro, Cumberland County, N.S. Burt Pye's passion is building large scale model airplanes, WWII vintage. To date he has hand built and donated to our Museum a Halifax bomber and a Wellington bomber, both with five foot wingspans. These can be seen proudly "flying" from the ceiling of the Museum.

     This May, Burt has finished and presented to the GMAM a 1.5" to 1 foot scale model of the Canadian built Hurricane fighter. It has a wingspan of 61" and is again made from aircraft plywood, spruce and balsa wood covered with "Koverall", a lightweight polyester fabric. He has covered this with two coats of a clear dope and authentically finished with a WWII camouflage paint scheme and OTU lettering. The cowling was constructed using fibreglass.

    In all, it took Burt 650 hours to complete this delicate work of art. Burt used a Museum picture of one of the Hurricanes which were stationed at R.C.A.F. Station Greenwood during the summer of 1944. Nearly 30 Hurricane aircraft were stationed at Greenwood when No. 1 OTU ATT (advanced tactical training) from Bagotville Quebec, flew here from Feb. to Nov. of 1944.

    The fantastic Hurricane model can be seen posed in action above the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan display as you enter the Museum. Burt Pye: a master craftsman and valued friend and benefactor of the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum. See all three of his fantastic replicas at the Museum