In 2021, Public Services and Procurement Canada awarded contracts totalling about $30 million to 元Harris and IMP Aerospace & Defence to design, engineer, and install a new avionics suite for the iconic aircraft - which first entered service in 1963 and became an airshow staple in 1971 with 431 Squadron.
The installation of several critical systems on the CF Snowbirds fleet of CT-114 Tutor aircraft will keep the aircraft performing until 2030. The installation of ADS-B and other critical systems is part of a project called CT-114 Tutor Life Extension Beyond 2020 (TLE 2020+), to meet North American airspace regulatory requirements and keep the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) fleet of 20 aerobatic performance aircraft at 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Snowbirds, performing until 2030. Like many military aircraft, the Tutor was among numerous aircraft still using waivers to continue to fly without Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B). But until just weeks before, identifying that plane on the website would have been impossible. That might seem normal to any flight tracking enthusiast monitoring civilian and military aircraft. If you were viewing in late March, you might have spotted a CT-114 Tutor jet, tail number 032, flying around Trenton, Ontario, and as far east as Mirabel, Quebec. Estimated reading time 18 minutes, 50 seconds.
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