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Hahn, Raymond Lawrence (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1955-05-05

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Birth Date: 1929-07-31 (age 25)

Born: Regina, Saskatchewan

Son of Christopher and Thelma Hahn of Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan.

Husband of Grace Hahn and father of Deborah Hahn of Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan. Brother of Robin, Allan and Priscilla.

Home: Regina, Saskatchewan

Enlistment: Victoria, British Columbia

Enlistment Date: 1951-04-09

Service
RCAF
Unit
2 FTS- Flying Training School
Base
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Rank
Flying Officer
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
37341
F/C A.H. Traub also killed.

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Crew on Harvard Mk. II AH189

North American Harvard NA-26 NA-44

North American Harvard Mk. IV
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The North American Harvard appeared in 1937, in response to a US Air Corps proposal for an advanced trainer. The first of 50 Harvard Mk. Is ordered by the Canadian Government were delivered to RCAF Sea Island, BC in July 1939. By early 1940, the Mk. II was being assembled in California with an all metal fuselage replacing the original tube and fabric structure. 1200 Mk. IIs were supplied from US sources, until Canadian built Harvards started being produced in 1941.

In August 1938, Noorduyn Aviation of Montreal farsightedly signed an agreement with North American, to build the Harvard under licence. When the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) came into being in December 1939, Noorduyn received its first orders and went on to produce nearly 2800 Harvard Mk. IIBs for the RCAF and the RAF, between 1940 and 1945. In Canada, Harvard Mk. IIBs were used as advanced trainers with the BCATP at fifteen Service Flying Training Schools across the nation. They helped pilots make to the transition from low powered primary trainers, like Fleet Finch or the de Havilland Tiger Moth, to high performance front line fighters such as the Spitfire.

At the end of WW II, although the RCAF retained the Harvard as a trainer, a large number of them were sold off to civilian operators. The RCAF soon regretted this, for by 1949 the Cold War with the Soviet Union was in full swing and the RCAF urgently needed trainers again. 100 T-6J Texans were leased temporarily from the USAF and a further 270 Harvards, the Mk. IV version, were ordered from Canadian Car & Foundry, Thunder Bay. The RCAF used the Harvard Mk. IV for a further fifteen years, before finally retiring it in 1966.

A total of 20,110 Harvards were built between 1938 and 1954, 3,370 of them in Canada. Countless numbers of privately owned Harvards are still flying today.

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Harvard Mk. IV was built by Canadian Car & Foundry, Thunder Bay, Ontario in late 1951. The aircraft saw service at four RCAF flying schools across the nation until it was sold to a civilian owner in 1965. It was the third aircraft to join the Museum after Dennis Bradley, Alan Ness and John Weir donated it in 1973. Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

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RCAF On Strength (2196), RCAF 400 Squadron (1), Canadian Aircraft Losses (374), RCN On Strength (3)
last update: 2021-10-19 20:12:13

Harvard Mk. II AH189

Received from RAF in North America. With No. 16 Service Flying Training School at Hagersville, Ontario. Used post war by No. 424 Squadron (Auxiliary) at Hamilton, Ontario and by the Admin Unit at RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario. Converted to Mk. IIR, date not known. Category A crash at RCAF Station Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on 5 May 1955, while with No. 2 Flying Training School. Flight Cadet A.H. Traub and Flying Officer R.L. Hahn killed.
1940-11-01 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1942-April-30 Accident: 9 Service Flying Training School Loc: Tyne Valley Pei Names: Allison | Harkness
1942-June-19 Accident: 9 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hall | Mclachlin
1942-November-27 Accident: 2 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Nopper | Stovel
1943-January-13 Accident: 2 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Murray
1943-April-16 Accident: 2 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Forbes
1943-August-01 Accident: 2 Service Flying Training School Loc: R2 Edwards Field Names: Holt
1944-June-21 Accident: 16 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bouch
1945-May-19 Accident: 16 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Heinimann | Kennedy | Nicks
1955-05-24 Struck off Strength Struck off after crash, see comments 2019-08-20

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