Shearwater Aviation Museum

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An accredited Canadian Forces Museum, our mandate is to preserve and present the Maritime Military Aviation heritage of the station known as 12 Wing Shearwater. The Shearwater Aviation Museum's mandate is to collect, preserve, display and promote the history of Maritime Military Aviation at the air station now known as 12 Wing Shearwater, from 1918 to the present time.

08/03/2026

Happy Natal Day everyone! We're open holiday hours today, from 12:00-4:00 pm. Hope you can drop by!

07/01/2026

The Shearwater Aviation Museum will be open on Wednesday, July 1st for the Canada Day holiday, from 12-4 pm.
Happy Canada Day everyone!
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Le Musée de l’aviation de Shearwater sera ouvert le mercredi 1er juillet à l’occasion de la fête du Canada, de 12 h à 16 h.
Bonne fête du Canada à toutes et à tous!

06/14/2026

The Shearwater Aviation Museum will be closed this afternoon, Sunday, 14 June 2026, for a private function. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Regular visiting hours resume on Monday,15 June from 10 am & 5 pm.

Our off-site team are at DND Family Days in the Dockyard. Drop by and see us! Even better, drop by SAM to check out the ...
06/13/2026

Our off-site team are at DND Family Days in the Dockyard. Drop by and see us! Even better, drop by SAM to check out the new layout; Danielle is waiting to host you!

06/07/2026

The power is back on! The Shearwater Aviation Museum will be open for regular hour this afternoon, from 12 - 4 pm.

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Le courant est revenu! Le musée de l'aviation de Shearwater sera ouvert cet après-midi selon ses horaires habituels, de 12 h à 16 h.

06/07/2026

The SAM will be opening late today due to a power outage in Eastern Passage. We'll open as soon as the power comes back on. Check back here for updates!

Like all museums, we're looking for help.We've been trying to determine what is the best way to add the cockpit to our o...
05/22/2026

Like all museums, we're looking for help.

We've been trying to determine what is the best way to add the cockpit to our ongoing Sea King Interactive Display project, which thus far has concentrated on the tactical crew (TACCO and SENSO). Like the other positions, "virtual crew" will be the normal operating mode, but we are exploring how to make an immersive display of the pilot's environment, which could also be taken over by guests with a volunteer guide's assistance to try their hand at flying.

Therefore, we're developing a 3D model in Unity of the cockpit to use with our Meta Quest 2 VR headsets. We've started with a scan and added some of the panels to see how it would present. We also are considering using one of our Sea King training artifacts to provide the primary flight controls.

If you would like to help with 3D modelling, or any other volunteer position, please reach out to us!

Editted: Charles Gagne reminded us in the comments below the Virtavia Sea King for X-Plane is now freeware, so with a little help of blender we can use it to build up the model around the cockpit much quicker, and concentrate on the unique CH-124 instruments.

05/09/2026

In our last post we said that in order to make our Flight Sim work for our museum, we need historical context and the ability to use it without guides being there all the time. Those things were pushing us towards an unique solution.

We've made progress, and here's a teaser of what we mean by unique: our plan is an historical tour of different deployments over time leaving Halifax, etiher flown continuously by the computer "pilot," or our guests can take control go where they want.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Would this make a valuable additon to the museum? As well, if there are any simmers that want to know how we're doing each piece ask in the comments.

We've been working on bringing our Flight Simulator back to working order. As can be seen below, we intend to use a part...
05/07/2026

We've been working on bringing our Flight Simulator back to working order. As can be seen below, we intend to use a partiuclar museum aircraft...

Our main goals to improve it are:
- A historical context as Shearwater is the home of Canada's Naval Aviation!
- To make the simulator approachable by all of our guests, without the need to have it attended by one of our volunteers.

These two things mean we are doing something relatively unique...

Address

Halifax, NS

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+19027201083

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