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CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
Research

CASPIR Resources

RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945) JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File

External Resources

RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft.
Aircraft

Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial

Lancaster FM213

CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
Personnel

Name or Home Town Search Unit (Squadron) Search Aircraft Type or Serial Search Browse by Letter This Day in History

War Status Search Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft) Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)

Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
History

Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists

"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
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Errington, Richard Allan

Killed in Flying Accident 1941-12-01

Birth Date: 1921-January-21

Born:

Son of Richard Allen Errington and Charlotte Lucy Errington, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Home: Vancouver, British Columbia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

4 AOS- Air Observer School (RAF)

Base

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/81422

Home

Google Map

Vancouver, British Columbia

First Burial

Google Map

Cemetery At Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire, Scotland

4 Air Observer School. Sgt. Errington was delivering Blackburn Botha aircraft L 6478 to West Freugh after modifications and was killed when he crashed seven mileswest of Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Botha L6478

Sergeant Errington, Richard Allan (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1941-December-01
Stoneykirk Cemetery, Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire, UK

Blackburn Botha

Image from the Charles Daniels Photo Collection album "British Aircraft." SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

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The Blackburn B.26 Botha was a British four-seat reconnaissance and torpedo bomber. It was built by Blackburn Aircraft at its factories at Brough and Dumbarton, as a competitor to the Bristol Beaufort, entering service with the RAF in 1939. The design was underpowered and it was quickly withdrawn from operations.Wikipedia

Wikipedia Blacburn Botha