Squadron: 1 (OT) CFS (RCAF)
Start Date: 1939-11-29
Completion Date: 1939-11-29
Mission: Operational
Operation: unspecified
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Target Specific:
Base: RCAF Station Trenton
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Return Base: RCAF Station Trenton
Return Time: 11:45:00
Crash City: Canada
Crash Specifics: one-half mile north of RCAF Station Trenton
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: piloterror
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6 Group Unavailable

1 Central Flying School, RCAF Station Trenton. Oxford II aircraft 1509 was one of a two aircraft flight returning from a training flight to the Air Firing and Bombing Range at Consecon, Ontario when it stalled and crashed two miles east of RCAF Station Trenton with the loss of the aircraft and the four crew members aboard

Pilot Officer L A Clements (RCAF), Pilot Officer L G Lee (RCAF), Pilot Officer G T Maher (RCAF) and Leading Aircraftman L S Stempel (RCAF) were all killed in this flying training accident

This may have been the first RCAF Oxford loss

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