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Campbell, Arthur David Andrew  (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1945-August-17

Birth Date: 1926 (age 19)

Mrs W F Wood, of Chigwell, Essex

Home: Chigwell, Essex, England

Service
RAFVR
Unit
11 (OT) SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Marshal
Air Chief MarshalA/C/M
Air MarshalA/M
Air Vice MarshalA/V/M
Air CommodoreA/C
Group CaptainG/C
Wing CommanderW/C
Squadron LeaderS/L
Flight LieutenantF/L
Flying OfficerF/O
Pilot OfficerP/O
Warrant Officer 1st ClassWO1
Warrant Officer 2nd ClassWO2
Flight SergeantFS
SergeantSGT
CorporalCPL
Senior AircraftmanSAC
Leading AircraftmanLAC
Aircraftman 1st ClassAC1
Aircraftman 2nd ClassAC2
Position
pilot-trainee
Service Numbers
3038753

Cornell Cornell III 14660

Operational 1945-August-17 to 1945-August-17

11 Service Flying Training School (BCATP), Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Leading Aircraftman A D A Campbell (RAFVR) was killed in a flying accident on Cornell III aircraft 14660 that crashed at Yorkton during a training flight

General Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

11 Service Flying Training School (BCATP), Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Leading Aircraftman A D A Campbell (RAFVR) was killed in a flying accident on Cornell III aircraft 14660 that crashed at Yorkton during a training flight

General Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave.com Find-A-Grave.com

Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Burial
Google Map Yorkton Cemetery, Canada
Block 5 Lot 76 Grave B

Fairchild Cornell

Fairchild Cornell Mk. II
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

In early 1942, an agreement was signed between the Canadian Government and Fairchild Aircraft, which licenced Fleet Aircraft of Fort Erie, Ontario to construct the PT-26 Cornell in Canada. The first 800 Cornells used by the RCAF were supplied from Fairchild, until production commenced at Fort Erie in November 1942. By the end of the war in 1945, 2,853 Cornells had been built by Fleet - 1,565 for the RCAF and 1,288 for the RAF.

PT-26 Cornells were flown at many of the Elementary Flying Training Schools (EFTS) of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, where they replaced the Fleet Finch and the de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane trainers. After the Second World War, many Cornells were sold to the civilian market, but some were retained by the RCAF, where they were finally retired in 1948. CWPHM



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CASPIR Aircraft Groups:
RCAF On Strength (1590), Canadian Aircraft Losses (54)
last update: 2021-08-30 13:45:56

Cornell Cornell III 14660

With No. 23 Elementary Flying Training School at Yorkton, Saskatvchewan when it crashed on 17 August 1945. Came down 4 miles north west of Waldron, Saskatchewan at about 16:15, on a solo cross country flight. LAC A.D.A. Campbell, RAFVR, kiled.
1943-10-23 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
1945-May-21 Accident: 23 Elementary Flying Training School Loc: NEast Airport Names: Moore | Skinner
1945-August-17 Accident: 23 Elementary Flying Training School Loc: Waldron Saskatchewan Names: Campbell
1945-10-06 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

11 (OT) SFTS- Service Flying Training School (11 Service Flying Training School)

Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.

There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.

NO11 SFTS Opening Day 1941

For more Information on RCAF Station Yorkton see here

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Yorkton SK

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Sturdee SK

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Rhein SK

  • General 11 SFTS Yorkton SK History

  • Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial - 11 SFTS Yorkton History

  • Museum Vintage Wings - Ghosts of Saskatchewan

    • 1941-04-10 Primary Location Yorkton SK Canada Present site of Yorkton SK Airport CYQV
    1941-04-10 Relief Field Sturdee SK Canada Abandoned return to agriculture still visible on satellite imagery.
    1941-04-11 Relief Field Rhein SK Approximate location turf runways returned to agriculture

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