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Markewicz, Andrezej  (Kapitan)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-05-08

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Service
PAF
Unit
10 AOS- Air Observer School
Base
Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada
Rank
Kapitan
Position
N2
Service Numbers
P/0183

Two Polish students, PPOR M. Glod and Mjr. A. Markewicz, killed. Ownership of wreckage to Eastern Air Command on 14 May 1943. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for disposal on 3 August 1943.

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Crew on Anson Mk. I 6729

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

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

Anson Mk. I 6729

Ex RAF W2523. To No. 3 Training Command on 5 August 1941, for use by No. 10 Air Observer School at Chatham, NB. With No. 10 Air Observer School when it crashed near Port Elgin, New Brunswick on 8 May 1943. Two Polish students, PPOR M. Glod and Mjr. A. Markewicz, killed. Ownership of wreckage to Eastern Air Command on 14 May 1943. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for disposal on 3 August 1943.
1941-07-24 Taken on Strength Ottawa Car & Aircraft 2019-08-20
1943-May-07 Accident: 10 Air Observer School Loc: Port Elgin New Brunswick Names: Glod | Hebert | Markiewiez | Roy
1943-10-07 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

10 AOS- Air Observer School (10 Air Observer School)

Air Observers were later called "navigators". For recruits in this stream, the training path after ITS was 8 weeks at an Air Observer School (AOS), 1 month at a Bombing & Gunnery School, and finally 1 month at a Navigation School. The Air Observer schools were operated by civilians under contract to the RCAF. For example, Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were run by CP Airlines. However, the instructors were RCAF. The basic navigation techniques throughout the war years were dead reckoning and visual pilotage, and the tools were the aeronautical chart, magnetic compass, watch, trip log, pencil, Douglas protractor, and Dalton Navigational Computer. They trained in the Avro Anson.
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