Early Canadian Military Aircraft:

Acquisitions, Dispositions, Colour Schemes & Markings

Vol.1 Aircraft taken on strength through 1920

• ISBN13 978-0-9780696-6-7

• by John Griffin and Anthony Stachiw

• illustrated by Andrew Tattersall (aircraft) and Terry Higgins (maps)

• 296 pages (vii + 289). art paper throughout

• 122 pages of colour scheme multi-views

• 125 mostly rare photographs

• detailed fleet tables per aircraft type

• 1 multi-part appendix on finishing materials, finish colours and markings

• 1 multi-part appendix with 15 pages of scale drawings

• 2 appendices featuring maps

• fully indexed

• 1st edition hardcover - June, 2011

Aircraft covered in this volume:

• Avro 504K

• DeHavilland D.H.9a

• Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5A

• Curtiss HS-2L

• Bristol F.2B

• Curtiss JN-4 (Can.)

• Fairey IIIC Transatlantic

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News, Views and Reviews

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•  Click the link to discover why Phil Jarrett, Aeroplane Monthly Magazine's long serving columnist and book reviewer, selected Volume 1 of our series as the iconic magazine's Book of the Month for October 2011.

•  John Ratzenberger shares his impressions on the IPMS USA (International Plastic Modellers Society – USA) website after giving his copy a thorough cover-to-cover read…

• Canadian author / compiler Mark Proulx on the scale modeling e-zine site, Hyperscale which includes a good range of scans of the books Avro 504K chapter pages   

• Prolific Canadian model builder Vic Scheuerman outlines the contents and shares his views on the IPMS Canada (International Plastic Modellers Society of Canada) website 

• Cybermodeler's editor offers this concise, yet very positive review complete with some of the books colour scheme page examples 

• After a complete read-through and a good number of "eureka moments" vis-a-vis CAF / RCAF history, the owner / editor of another popular scale modeling-oriented website Modeling Madness expresses his opinion

• Aeroscale, a UK-based scale modeling website, also has a concise review up. This one also has a forum link which may develop over time. 

• Click on the cover image of Early Canadian Military Aircraft Volume 1 on the Seawings website home page, then on the resulting banner and scroll down to "SEAWINGS says" to learn why the site owner has slotted this title in as "My best book of 2011 - so far!" A good number of page scans from various sections of the book are included in this coverage as well.