Cody, James Doan (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1939-October-31

Male Head

Birth Date: 1916

Born:

Home: Windsor, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAF

Unit

108 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Viribus Contractis With gathered strength

Base

RAF Weston-on-the-Green

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Pilot Officer

Service Numbers

40366

Home
Google MapWindsor, Ontario
Final Burial
Google MapSt Laurence Churchyard
Grave 1

Anson Mk I N-5177 was involved in a mid-air collision with 108 Sqn Anson Mk I N-5158 at RAF Weston-on-the-Green. Both aircraft crashed, with the loss of three aircrew.

Killed in Anson N-5177includes Cody: Pilot Officer Robert Ernest Cox RAF (Aust.) pilot KIA St. Laurence Church Cemetery Caversfield Grave 3.

Killed Anson N-5158: Flying Officer D R Green RAF KIA St Laurence Church Cemetery.

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Anson serial: N5177

Avro Anson Mk. V
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

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