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Chace, Quenton Burl (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1941-02-17

Birth Date: 1919-05-09 (age 21)

Born: Wichita, Kansas

Ira S. & Bertha E. Chace

Home: Wichita, Kansas USA (parents)

Enlistment: Windsor, Ontario

Enlistment Date: 1940-08-29

Service
RCAF
Unit
3 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
RCAF Base Calgary, Alberta
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
Service Numbers
R/67694

Anson aircraft W1610 (6200) while on a training flight, crashed eight miles west of Cochrane. Alberta after it hit a woven steel cable across the Bow River.

Killed: LAC Q B Chace RCAF USA KITA just before graduation. Sgt A E Regimbal RCAF KITA.

A memorial cairn has been erected eight miles west of Cochrane on the Banff highway. Anson W-1610 was delivered to the RCAF 1940-11-16 as 6200.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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

Burial
Google Map Elmwood Cemetery, USA
Space 2 Lot 35 Sixth Addition

Crew on Anson Mk. I 6200

Avro Anson

Avro Anson Mk. V
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.

The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes. Harold Skaarup web pages

General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

YouTube Avro Anson History

YouTube Avro Anson Construction

CASPIR Aircraft Groups:
RCAF On Strength (4404), RCAF 400 Squadron (6), Canadian Aircraft Losses (257)
last update: 2022-02-22 21:45:24

Anson Mk. I 6200

Ex RAF W1610. To No. 4 Training Command on 5 December 1940, for use by No. 3 Service Flying Training School at Calgary, Alberta. Category A crash at Cochrane, Alberta at 17:30 on 17 February 1941. Had 340:10 logged time.
1940-11-16 Taken on Strength No. 2 Training Command at MacDonald Brothers Aircraft 2019-08-20
1941-February-17 Accident: 3 Service Flying Training School Loc: Cochrane Alberta Names: Chace | Regimbal
1941-February-17 Accident: 3 Service Flying Training School Loc: Cochrane Alberta Names: Chace | Regimbal
1941-04-26 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce by No. 10 Repair Depot 2019-08-20

3 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (3 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.

Cessna Crane Midair No3 SFTS Calgary

For More Information on RCAF Station Calgary see here

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - RCAF Station Lincoln Park, Currie, Calgary Alberta

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Shepard Alberta

  • Museum Bomber Command Museum of Canada

  • General 3 SFTS Blog

  • General 3 SFTS Regimbal Chace Accident

  • 1940-10-28 Primary Location Calgary AB Canada Airport closed in 1964 and now developed into an urban development.
    1940-10-28 Relief Field Shepard, AB Canada Now part of SE Calgary AB

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