Wilkie, Saskatchewan
9 Service Flying Training School, Summerside, Prince Edward Island. BROTHER to George Nelson Moore. Leading Aircraftman Moore took off on a night flying exercise to carry out flying sequences 7 and 8, after climbing to 500 feet his Harvard aircraft 2851 was seen to turn to the left and gradually lose height. He was killed when the Harvard crashed one half mile north of the aerodrome at Surnmerside.
Moore, Claude Russell (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1941-September-16
Birth Date: 1919
Born:
Parents: Son of Roy E. Moore and Opal N. Moore, of Wilkie.
Spouse:
Home: Wilkie, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
9 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/69423
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk.II serial:2851
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1941-September-16. Harvard s/n 2851.
This accident involved 1 person. Moore CR
This accident had 1 fatality. Leading Aircraftman Claude Russell Moore RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/69423 Harvard 2851
Unit Desciption
9 SFTS (9 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.
Graduation Class Centralia
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6 July 1942 School moved to Centralia, Ontario
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RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field St Joseph Ontario
June 1945 - School was disbanded
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