TIGHAR is a non-profit institute dedicated to sound historical investigation, responsible aviation archaeology, and genuine historic preservation.

Canadian Aviation Historical Society

CHAA Aircraft Recovery Team

Our Society is the world's premier organization dedicated to the preservation of Canada's diverse aviation heritage. A resource for aviation history in Canada.

Vintage Wings of Canada not only keeps alive the memory of those airmen and airwomen who have gone before us—their aircraft and their stories—but also the skills, techniques and tools to maintain, restore and even build these extraordinary machines from scratch. Vintage Wings of Canada is a not-for-profit, charitable organization with a collection of historically significant aircraft and is run entirely by volunteers. It is our mission to acquire, restore, maintain and fly classic aircraft significant to the early history of powered flight in Canada, focusing largely on the aircraft of the Second World War.

Aviation archaeology is a recognized sub-discipline within archaeology and underwater archaeology as a whole. It is an activity practiced by both enthusiasts and academics in pursuit of finding, documenting, recovering, and preserving sites important in aviation history. For the most part, these sites are aircraft wrecks and crash sites, but also include structures and facilities related to aviation. It is also known in some circles and depending on the perspective of those involved as aircraft archaeology or aerospace archaeology and has also been described variously as crash hunting, underwater aircraft recovery, wreck chasing, or wreckology.

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