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Timmins, Noah Anthony (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1945-02-17

Birth Date: 1924-11-15 (age 20)

Son of Noah Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Timmins, of Westmount.

Home: Westmount, Quebec

Service
RCAF
Unit
2 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Uplandas, Ontario, 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
Service Numbers
R/268537

LAC Timmins was killed when Harvard aircraft 3083 crashed when turning for approach to land R1 relief field at Carp Ontario.

Evening Citizen newspaper notice of death 1945-02-19












Crash of Havard 3083

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Burial
Google Map Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Canada
Sec T Plot 440 Family Vault

North American Harvard NA-26 NA-44

North American Harvard Mk. IV
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

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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CASPIR Aircraft Groups:
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.IIB 3083

Category B damage on 30 August 1941 while with No. 14 Service Flying Training School at RCAF Station Aylmer, Ontario. Category A crash at Uplands while with No. 2 SFTS, on 17 February 1945. Crashed while turning to land, one fatality.
1941-08-18 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1941-August-30 Accident: 14 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Aylmer Ontario Names: Glover
1942-January-11 Accident: 14 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: McCann
1942-March-02 Accident: 14 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cuthbertson | Fraser
1942-November-06 Accident: 14 Service Flying Training School Loc: R1 Names: Bailey | Bell | Harridence | Smith
1944-April-26 Accident: 14 Service Flying Training School Loc: R1 Yarmouth Names: Galloway
1944-October-15 Accident: 124 Ferry Squadron Loc: Airport St Hubert Names: Sutherland
1945-February-17 Accident: 2 Service Flying Training School Loc: R1 Carp Ontario Names: Timmins
1945-03-19 Struck off Strength Struck off, broken up for spares. 2019-08-20

2 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (2 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.

RCAF Station Uplands now the site of Ottawa International Airport CYOW.

Instructors NO2 SFTS

For More Information on RCAF Station Uplands See here

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - RCAF Station Uplands Ottawa Ontario

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Carp Ontario

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Edwards Ontario

  • Museum Vintage Wings - Inside Uplands

  • General 2 SFTS Uplands History

  • 1940-01-01 Primary Location Uplands ON Canada Present site of Macdonald Cartier Airport Ottawa CYOW
    1940-01-01 Relief Field Edwards, ON Canada Abandoned grass runways returned to agriculture.
    1940-01-01 Relief Field Carp, ON Canada Currently the site of Carp Airport CYRP

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