Lee-on-Solent MemorialKilled in the crash of Harvard AJ683.
Harvards Above, A book about 31 Service Flying Training School - In Memoriam
Edwards, Robert Cecil (Lieutenant)
Killed in Flying Accident 1942-November-28
Birth Date: 1918
Born:
Parents: Son of Edgar Cecil and Bertha Susannah Edwards, of Llangranog, Cardiganshire.
Spouse:
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RNVR FAA
Unit
31 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Rank
Lieutenant
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
Commonwealth War Graves CommissionAccident Card - North American Harvard Mk. II serial:AJ683
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-November-28. Harvard II s/n AJ683.
This accident involved 1 person. Edwards RC
This accident had 1 fatality. Lieutenant Robert Cecil Edwards RNVR FAA Killed in Flying Accident service no: Harvard AJ683
Unit Desciption
31 SFTS (31 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.
SFTS31 Kingston ON
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