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CHAA Aircraft Recovery Team
This special group consists of both professional technical and recreational divers, marine
search and recovery specialists, underwater videographers, researchers and historians. Many of the divers are NAS-1 certified. CHAA is the
only government approved group authorized to conduct searches for aircraft and engage in the documentation,
recovery and preservation of items of our aviation past lost in inland waterways. It’s current
roster of search projects
is focused on aircraft
lost in the Great Lakes,
St. Lawrence waterway
and Ontarios inland
lakes. Several projects
involve crashes and
disappearances where
the airmen died and were
never recovered. CHAA ART work intimately with government authorities and use state-of-the-art search equipment available
from members specialized in underwater mapping including AUVs and ROVs as well as military-grade acoustic cameras and underwater 3D video imaging equipment.
Proceeds from the sale of this commemorative issue go to the search, recovery and preservation of Canada’s lost military training and operational aircraft, memorialization of those airmen and aircrew who were never found and returned to their families. And to the continued acquisition, preservation, restoration, maintenance, operation, display and demonstration of Harvard and other training aircraft associated with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Berry Newman’s P-51D Mark IV Mustang #9555 lost 10 June 1952