Francis Philip Coyle Rank: Flying Officer Status: Killed in Flying Accident 1956-05-18

!956-05-18:Two RCAF Beechcraft Expeditors (1483 and 1491) collided and crashed at Winnipeg Manitoba.

Killed includes Coyle: Pilot Officer Brian Cox, RCAF KIFA Flying Officer John Terrance King, RCAF KIFA Pine Hills Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Warriors Plot. Sec K. Grave 1919. Flying Officer Anthony George Mulholland, RCAF KIFA Flt Cdt Joseph Jacques Richard Ovide Plourde, RCAF KIFA Baron De Hirsch Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec - Grave 2269; Plot 3412; Section M3412.

Expeditor 1491

Beechcraft Expeditor

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Beechcraft CT-128 Expeditor Mk. 3TM (Serial No. A-734), (Serial No. CA-134), RCAF (Serial No. 1534), coded AO-N, Air Transport Command.

The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to November 1969 (over 32 years, a world record at the time), over 9,000 were built, making it one of the world's most widely used light aircraft. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, cargo aircraft, and passenger airliner on tailwheels, nosewheels, skis, or floats, it was also used as a military aircraft.

During and after World War II, over 4,500 Beech 18s were used in military service – as light transport, light bomber (for China), aircrew trainer (for bombing, navigation, and gunnery), photo-reconnaissance, and "mother ship" for target drones – including Royal Canadian Airforce (RCAF), United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) C-45 Expeditor, AT-7 Navigator, and AT-11 Kansan; and United States Navy (USN) UC-45J Navigator, SNB-1 Kansan, and others. In World War II, over 90% of USAAF bombardiers and navigators and pilots trained in these aircraft.

In the early postwar era, the Beech 18 was the pre-eminent "business aircraft" and "feeder airliner". Besides carrying passengers, its civilian uses have included aerial spraying, sterile insect release, fish stocking, dry-ice cloud seeding, aerial firefighting, air-mail delivery, ambulance service, numerous movie productions, skydiving, freight, weapon- and drug-smuggling, engine testbed, skywriting, banner towing, and stunt aircraft. Wikipedia

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Expeditor Mk. 3N 1491

With No. 2 Air Navigation School at Winnipeg when it crashed at Winnipeg on 18 May 1956. Flying Officer F.P. Coyle, Flying Officer J.T. King, Pilot Officer B. Cox, Flying Officer A.G. Mulholland, and Cadet d'aviation J.J.R.O. Plourde killed.

1951-12-21 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1956-06-08 Struck off Strength Struck off after Category A crash at Winnipeg, Manitoba in May 1956. 2019-08-20

2 AOS (2 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.

NO2 AOS Edmonton 1941

Formed at Edmonton, Alberta - 5 August 1940

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Museum Bomber Command Museum

Disbanded at Edmonton, Alberta - 14 July 1944
Re-formed at Winnipeg, Manitoba 15 November 1955

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Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Coyle, Francis Philip (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1956-May-18

Expeditor 1491

Beechcraft Expeditor

Expeditor Mk. 3N 1491

2 AOS (2 Air Observer School)

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Coyle, Francis Philip (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1956-May-18

Expeditor 1491

Beechcraft Expeditor

Expeditor Mk. 3N 1491

2 AOS (2 Air Observer School)

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