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School Daily Diary Entry "“ 1944-08-07
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Avro Anson
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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
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Avro Anson HistoryCASPIR Aircraft Groups:
RCAF Owned (4404) RCAF 400 Squadrons (6) Canadian Crewed (259) Canadian Manufactured (3956) Canadian Museum (1)Anson Mk. I / IV W1729
To No. 3 Training Command on 10 July 1941, for use by No. 31 General Reconnaissance School at Charlottetown, PEI. To Eastern Air Command with this School on 5 November 1941. Category C14 damage at Charlottetown at 14:35 on 11 March 1942. Anson N9938 was swung by a heavy gust of wind while taxiing, and struck this unoccupied aircraft. To Canada Car & Foundry for overhaul and conversion to Mk. IV, 10 March to 8 September 1943. To No. 1 Training Command when completed, for use by No. 1 Air Observer School at Malton, Ontario. Still with this School when it suffered a Category A crash on 7 August 1944. Ownership to No. 6 Repair Depot on 11 August 1944 for scrapping.1941-05-27 Taken on Strength Canada Car & Foundry 2019-08-20
1942-March-11 Accident: RAF CHARLOTTETOWN Loc: Aerodrome Names: Giles | Grant | Mcnulty | Moore
1944-August-07 Accident: 1 Air Observer School Loc: Markham Township Names: Bruce | Mchardy
1944-09-15 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
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