Birth Date: 1925
Born:
Fred & Ellen Craig
Home: Merlin, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
1 FIS- Flying Instructor School
Base
RCAF Stn. Trenton, Ontario
Rank
Pilot Officer
Position
Pilot Officer
Service Numbers
J/41200
Prev: R/187958
Crashed near Ameliasberg, Ontario (Prince Edward County, 5 miles west of Mountain View aerodrome).
One wing detached in flight after spar failure, aircraft destroyed by post crash fire. Came down in a farm field on Wilson Road. Pilot Officer Craig and Pilot Officer Ross, RAAF both killed.
In early 1942, an agreement was signed between the Canadian Government and Fairchild Aircraft, which licenced Fleet Aircraft of Fort Erie, Ontario to construct the PT-26 Cornell in Canada. The first 800 Cornells used by the RCAF were supplied from Fairchild, until production commenced at Fort Erie in November 1942. By the end of the war in 1945, 2,853 Cornells had been built by Fleet - 1,565 for the RCAF and 1,288 for the RAF.
PT-26 Cornells were flown at many of the Elementary Flying Training Schools (EFTS) of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, where they replaced the Fleet Finch and the de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane trainers. After the Second World War, many Cornells were sold to the civilian market, but some were retained by the RCAF, where they were finally retired in 1948. CWPHM
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