Phelan, Donegan Frederick (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1941-May-05

Flying Officer Donegan Frederick Phelan RCAF

Birth Date: 1920-December-17

Born: Toronto, Ontario

Parents: Son of Harry and Stella Phelan, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Jerome David Phelan who was killed in action accident on October 4, 1942 while serving the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Spouse:

Home: Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

2 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base

Uplands, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

C/1485

Home

Toronto, Ontario

Final Burial

Mount Hope Cemetery
Family Plot Sec 13 Lot O

Flying Officer Phelan and Leading Aircraftman J.W. Munro were both killed when their Harvard aircraft 2600 went into a vertical dive and crashed one mile north-east of the aerodrome at Uplands.

Canada Primary Source School Daily Diary Entry - 1941-05-05

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Harvard 2600

Leading Aircraftman John Wellesley Munro RCAF

Leading Aircraftman Munro, John Wellesley (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1941-May-05
Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Flying Officer Donegan Frederick Phelan RCAF

Flying Officer Phelan, Donegan Frederick (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1941-May-05
Mount Hope Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Unit Desciption

2 SFTS (2 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.

RCAF Station Uplands now the site of Ottawa International Airport CYOW.