The Burgess-Dunne was the first Canadian military aircraft. It was manufactured by the Burgess Company, a boat building company that was contracted to make several of these swept-wing floatplanes for the United States Navy. The Canadian Aviation Corps, Canada’s fledgling, and short-lived, Air Force at the time, hastily purchased a Burgess-Dunne AH7 for $5,000 in September of 1914. The aircraft was flown to Quebec City, where it was disassembled and shipped to England for overseas service in the First World War. The aircraft had limited military usefulness, and as a result, it was never flown once it arrived in England. By 1915 both the aircraft, and the Canadian Aviation Corps, had been removed from service, and any Canadians seeking to serve in an air capacity for the First World War would do so in the British Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force. The Burgess-Dunne was left to rot in England, and as a result, no longer exists. This 1:1 scale replica of the Burgess-Dunne was built by Barry MacKeracher and donated to the National Air Force Museum of Canada in 2001.