The museum of the Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI) in Toronto houses Canada’s most extensive display of artifacts related to the Red Baron. Captain Roy Brown, a member of the RCMI, donated most of the items himself in 1920. He and his colleagues salvaged them from the wreck of Manfred von Richthofen’s Fokker triplane. The display also includes Brown’s original miniature medal set.
This large piece of fabric “skin” bears the iconic red paint unique to von Richthofen’s aircraft and the Balkenkreuz, or black iron cross. Members of 209 Squadron signed their names in the middle of the cross and delivered it to Brown while he was...
This wing tip from the Red Baron`s plane is made of lightweight spruce and plywood box spars. Brown gave it to his friend, then Lieutenant- Colonel Billy Bishop. Bishop was also a member of the RCMI. His son, Arthur, donated the wing tip to the...
The plane’s seat is made of curved aluminum and plywood, and would have had a plush red cover, some remnants of which can still be seen along the seat’s edges.