Norwich, Connecticut, USA
16 Service Flying Training School, Hagersville, Ontario. Sergeant Smiley was killed when Anson aircraft 7087 crashed during a night landing one mile west of the aerodrome at Hagersville. Sergeant Pilot Smiley is buried at Norwich, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Smiley, Dwight Lloyd (Sergeant)
Killed in Flying Accident 1944-March-19
Birth Date: 1919
Born:
Parents: Son of John W. Smiley and Georgia Smiley, of Norwich, Connecticut,
Spouse:
Home: Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
16 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Hagersville, Ontario, Canada
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/194247
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)Accident Card - Avro Anson Mk. II serial:7087
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1944-March-19. Anson II s/n 7087.
This accident involved 1 person. Smiley DL
This accident had 1 fatality. Sergeant Dwight Lloyd Smiley RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/194247 Anson 7087
Unit Desciption
16 SFTS (16 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.
Class115 SFTS16
For More Info on RCAF Station Hagersville see here
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16 SFTS Hagersville ON History Blog
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