About CanMilAir
CanMilAir Decals is a home-based sole-proprietorship established in London, Ontario in 2005 to produce after-market waterslide decals for scale models of Canadian military aircraft. Between June 2005 and August 2018 CanMilAir filled over 4,000 orders containing more than 11,000 decal sets to over 2,100 customers in 40 countries. Our catalogue of Canadian decals contains 684 items, covering 137 aircraft types and are available in almost any scale requested. Since the beginning of January 2022, that catalogue of material has been produced by Above & Below Scale Graphics in Victoria BC.
In September 2006, CanMilAir began offering these same graphics at full-size in premium-quality self-adhesive vinyl to aid the restoration of many vintage Canadian warbirds. Having established a reputation as a specialist in the national insignia used on Canadian military aircraft and with over 60 vintage aircraft refinished, I was invited to assume an Associate Historian position with the Office of History and Heritage within the RCAF.
On April 1, 2017, CanMilAir's first book was published titled "Canadian Cold Warriors", and examines the unique unit and squadron-level markings applied to the Avro CF-100 Canuck throughout its service life. The first printing sold out in 20 months and is now avalable in a second printing.
CanMilAir Decals has always been dedicated to the memory of my father - a combat veteran of the First World War, serving with the 46th Battalion (South Saskatchewan) at Arras, Lens, Hill 70 and Passchendaele. He transferred into the Royal Flying Corps in February 1918 learning to fly the Sopwith Camel. When the war ended on November 11th, he was on a train travelling through Italy on his way to his first posting in Alexandria, Egypt. During the Second World War he served as an instructor for the Link Trainer and also taught Ground School courses at #20 EFTS in Oshawa, from June 1940 until the school's disbandment in November 1944, logging 4,234.25 hours of Link instruction. FYI, the small Poppy you see on most of my printed material is in his memory. Lest We Forget.
William Burns, Proprietor