Birth Date: 1919-May-09
Born: Wichita, Kansas
Parents: Ira S. & Bertha E. Chace
Spouse:
Home: Wichita, Kansas USA (parents)
Enlistment: Windsor, Ontario
Enlistment Date: 1940-August-29
Service
RCAF
Unit
3 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
RCAF Base Calgary, Alberta
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/67694
Anson aircraft W1610 (6200) while on a training flight, crashed eight miles west of Cochrane. Alberta after it hit a woven steel cable across the Bow River.
Killed: LAC Q B Chace RCAF USA KITA just before graduation. Sergeant A E Regimbal RCAF KITA.
A memorial cairn has been erected eight miles west of Cochrane on the Banff highway. Anson W-1610 was delivered to the RCAF 1940-11-16 as 6200.
All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.
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
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.
For More Information on RCAF Station Calgary see here
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Lincoln Park, Currie, Calgary Alberta
RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Shepard Alberta
Bomber Command Museum of Canada
Wichita, Kansas USA (parents)
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Harold A Skaarup Web Page
Avro Anson History