Brown, Ian Macdonnell Sutherland
Killed in Flying Accident 1941-08-14
Birth Date: 1920
Born:
Home: Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
3 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
RCAF Stn. Calgary, Alberta
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Flying Officer
Service Numbers
C/1450
First Burial
Royal Oak Burial Park, Victoria, British Columbia
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)This incident involved multiple aircraft:
- Anson Mk. I Serial: 6568
All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.
Anson 6568
Avro Anson
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
Harold A Skaarup Web Page 
Avro Anson History3 SFTS (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.
For More Information on RCAF Station Calgary see here
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Lincoln Park, Currie, Calgary Alberta
RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Shepard Alberta
Bomber Command Museum of Canada
Anson 6568
Anson Mk. I 6568
Ex RAF W2357. To No. 4 Training Command on 7 July 1941, for use by No. 3 Service Flying Training School at Calgary, Alberta. Category A crash 45 miles west of Calgary, at 17:00 on 14 August 1941. Pilot became trapped in a dead end canyon during unauthorised low flying, hit trees while attempting to turn around at west end of Canyon, on Mt. Dougall. Starboard horizontal stabilizer came off, aircraft then crashed into side of mountain. 2 fatalities, 1 survivor. To No. 10 Repair Depot at Calgary on 17 August 1941 for write off.1941-05-27 Taken on Strength Aircraft Repair 2019-08-20
1941-August-14 Accident: 3 Service Flying Training School Loc: Calgary Names: Brown | Greenfield | Mcgruther
1941-09-13 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20