Hughes, William Austin (Pilot Officer)
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-December-20
Birth Date: 1923
Born:
Parents: Sydney Hugh and Jane Hughes, of Hornchurch, Essex, England
Spouse:
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAFVR
Unit
41 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
Rank
Pilot Officer
Position
Service Numbers
152836
Hillcrest Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves CommissionAccident Card - North American Harvard Mk. IIB serial:FE343
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1943-December-20. Harvard s/n FE343.
This accident involved 2 people. Humphrey EW, Hughes WA
This accident had 1 fatality. Pilot Officer William Austin Hughes RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:152836 Harvard FE343
Unit Desciption
41 SFTS (41 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.
Goldilocks Formation Harvards
For More Information on RCAF Station Weyburn see here
RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Weyburn SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Halbrite SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Ralph SK
Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial - Base History
Vintage Wings - Ghosts of Saskatchewan
International Bomber Command Center - 41 SFTS Publication
YouTube - Abandoned Saskatchewan
Project 44 BCATP