Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)
Milltown, New Brunswick
Avro Anson
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.
The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes. Harold Skaarup web pages
Harold A Skaarup Web Page
Avro Anson HistoryCASPIR Aircraft Groups:
RCAF Owned (4404) RCAF 400 Squadrons (6) Canadian Crewed (259) Canadian Manufactured (3956) Canadian Museum (1)Anson Mk. V 11600
First assigned to No. 31 General Reconnaissance School at Charlottetown, PEI. To No. 3 Training Command on 16 March 1944. With No. 2 Air Navigation School at Charlottetown, PEI. One of 25 aircraft launched for night exercises on 14 May 1944. Weather turned bad, and this was one of 3 aircraft never seen again. Believed to have come down in the sea off Newfoundland, bodies of Leading Aircraftman J.W.S. Mathers washed ashore on 4 June 1944, Leading Aircraftman F. Duncan washed ashore on 9 June 1944. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 8 June 1944, for write off action.1943-05-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1944-May-14 Accident: 2 Air Navigation School Loc: Names: Duncan | Kilsby | Logan | Mathers | Murchie
1944-07-29 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Pennfield Ridge NB
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