School Daily Diary Entry "“ 1942-01-08
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. I 6831
Ex RAF AW478. To No. 1 Training Command on 18 October 1941. With No. 1 Air Observer School at Malton, Ontario when lost. Went missing on flight from St. Jeans, Quebec to Malton evening of 8 January 1942. Civilian pilot C. Rutherford and 3 students (LACs A.M. Morgan, RCAF, B.B. Sutton, RAAF and J. Witts, RAAF) missing. Extensive search carried out over the next week over south Ontario and northern New York State, without results. Search abandoned on 20 January 1942. Some wreckage recovered on American side of Lake Ontario in April 1942, bodies never found.1941-08-13 Taken on Strength de Havilland Canada 2019-08-20
1942-January-08 Accident: 1 Air Observer School Loc: Unknown Names: Morgan | Rutherford | Sutton | Witts
1942-05-01 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Malton Ontario
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