St John, New Brunswick8 Service Flying Training School, Moncton, New Brunswick. Leading Aircraftman Babkirk and Pilot Officer R.L. Bisson were both killed when Harvard aircraft 3056 crashed two and one half miles west of Pacific Junction, New Brunswick.
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Babkirk, Lawrence Russell (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-June-17
Birth Date: 1924-June-26
Born: Elgin, New Brunswick
Parents: Clarence and Alice B. Babkirk, of Saint John.
Spouse:
Home: St John, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
8 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
RCAF Stn. Moncton, New Brunswick
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/174607
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Harvard 3056
Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk.IIB serial:3056
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1943-June-17. Harvard II s/n 3056.
This accident involved 2 people. Babkirk LR, Bisson RL
This accident had 2 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Russell Babkirk RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/174607 Harvard 3056, Pilot Officer Raymond Louis Bisson RAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/24582 Harvard 3056
Unit Desciption
8 SFTS (8 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.
Harvard Formation
NO8 SFTS Moncton moved to Weyburn SK January 1944
For More Information on RCAF Station Moncton see here
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