PL - Edwin Robert Myles KIFA

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Myles, Edwin Robert (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-April-03

Canada

Birth Date: 1920 (age 23)

Edwin William and Emily Edith Myles, of Sarnia; husband of Marjorie L. Myles, of Sarnia.

Marjorie L. Myles, of Sarnia.

Home: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Service
RCAF

Unit
3 FIS- Flying Instructor School

Base
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Pilot Officer

Marshal
Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Position
Pilot

Service Numbers
J/24295

3 Flying Instructor School, Arnprior, Ontario. Cornell aircraft FH 740 was engaged in a mutual instruction instrument cross- country training flight when it flew into the ground four miles north-west of Cormac, near Eganville, Ontario.

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Lakeview Cemetery Burial and Cremation Services
Sec E Lot 122

Cornell FH740

Pilot Officer Myles, Edwin Robert (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-April-03
Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Fairchild Cornell

Fairchild Cornell Mk. II
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

In early 1942, an agreement was signed between the Canadian Government and Fairchild Aircraft, which licenced Fleet Aircraft of Fort Erie, Ontario to construct the PT-26 Cornell in Canada. The first 800 Cornells used by the RCAF were supplied from Fairchild, until production commenced at Fort Erie in November 1942. By the end of the war in 1945, 2,853 Cornells had been built by Fleet - 1,565 for the RCAF and 1,288 for the RAF.

PT-26 Cornells were flown at many of the Elementary Flying Training Schools (EFTS) of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, where they replaced the Fleet Finch and the de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane trainers. After the Second World War, many Cornells were sold to the civilian market, but some were retained by the RCAF, where they were finally retired in 1948. CWPHM

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last update: 2021-08-30 13:45:56

Cornell Mk. I FH740

Ex USAAF PT-26, serial number 42-14388. To RCAF in Canada, retained RAF serial number.

1942-09-21 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
1943-April-03 Accident: 3 Flying Instructor School Loc: Cormac Names: Moeller | Myles
1943-05-12 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

3 FIS (3 Flying Instructors School)

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