Toronto, Ontario
Flying Officer Duffey and Leading Aircraftman D.M. Lord (RAAF) were engaged in night flying training and were both killed when their Harvard aircraft 2884 crashed and burned two and one half miles south of the aerodrome at Uplands.
Duffey, Bennett Lorel (Flying Officer)
Killed in Flying Accident 1941-May-06
Birth Date: 1908
Born:
Parents: Son of John B. Duffey and Anna Duffey, of Toronto; husband of Dorothy E. Duffey, of Toronto.
Spouse: Husband of Dorothy E. Duffey, of Toronto.
Home: Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
2 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
RCAF Stn. Uplands, Ontario (Ottawa)
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
C/4802
School Daily Diary Entry - 1941-05-06
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Harvard 2884
Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk.II serial:2884
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1941-May-06. Harvard s/n 2884.
This accident involved 2 people. Duffey BL, Lord DM
This accident had 2 fatalities. Flying Officer Bennett Lorel Duffey RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:C/4802 Harvard 2884, Leading Aircraftman Douglas Mervyn Lord RAAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:400721 Harvard 2884
Unit Desciption
2 SFTS (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
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