6 Service Flying Training School, Dunnville, Ontario, Leading Aircraftman Schwartz was on a training flight and was killed when his Yale aircraft 3376 apparently dived into the ground one and one half miles south-east of Kehler, Ontario, cause obscure.
Schwartz, Frank (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1941-May-26
Birth Date: 1920-January-27
Born:
Parents: Son of Sam and Mina Schwartz, of Montreal, Quebec.
Spouse:
Home: Montreal, Quebec
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
6 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/77224
Home
Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)Accident Card - North American Yale serial:3376
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1941-May-26. Yale s/n 3376.
This accident involved 1 person. Schwartz
This accident had 1 fatality. Leading Aircraftman Frank Schwartz RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/77224 Yale 3376
Unit Desciption
6 SFTS (6 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.
Course44 NO6 SFTS Dunnville
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