Research by Clarence Simonsen Part One – RCAF Training PDF version below. RCAF Navigator WO2 George Edward Surbey (1) Canada’s National Maclean’s Magazine – 1 March 1943. In the spring of 1940, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company began to purchase small Canadian bush airlines, Ginger Coote Airways, Southern Air Transport, Wings, Prairie Airways, Mackenzie Air […]
RCAF Navigator WO2 George Edward Surbey #R182586
Research by Lee Walsh My dad use to tell me that is a reason for everything, and what comes around eventually goes around. Well after 20+ years of searching I think we have uncovered a rare photo of No. 129 Hawker Hurricane « 2-T » serial number 5667 that was blown over on July 23, 1942 up […]
Believe it or not story…
Fleet Finch 4697
Collection E.H. Fairfield via Steve Daoust
Growing up, I knew only a few things about my great-uncle George Mayor, 1) he was an air gunner who died in battle over Germany in World War II and 2) there was a northern lake named after him. C’est tout! His story seemed like an obvious place to start my ancestral research. I’ve spent […]
In Memory of Pilot Officer George W. Mayor
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More to come later…
Courtesy Kevin Larson
More pages will follow…
https://www.vintagewings.ca/stories/the-ghosts-of-southern-alberta
Excerpt
No. 7 Service Flying Training School
Fort Macleod, Alberta
No. 7 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) at Fort Macleod began operations in December of 1940, with Alberta’s long-serving Lieutenant Governor John Campbell Bowen in attendance. The school taught advanced flying to wings standard for pilots in the multi-engine stream—headed for Bomber, Coastal and Transport Commands of the RAF. The only aircraft employed at Fort Macleod was the Avro Anson. Administrative and operational control was the responsibility of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). No. 7 SFTS closed 17 November 1944 with the end of the war in sight and a declining need for bomber pilots.
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan 