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CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
Research

CASPIR Resources

RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945) JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File

External Resources

RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft.
Aircraft

Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial

Lancaster FM213

CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
Personnel

Name or Home Town Search Unit (Squadron) Search Aircraft Type or Serial Search Browse by Letter This Day in History

War Status Search Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft) Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)

Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
History

Education & History
Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists Canada in Korean Air War 1950-1953

Blogs & Articles
CASPIR Overview First World War Neighbourhood - Dufferin & Dupont Canada's First Military Aeroplane 1917

"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
Contact

Ford, Kenneth (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-May-28

Pilot Officer Kenneth Ford RCAF

Birth Date: 1920-May-18

Born: Bolton, England

Parents: Catherine Ford, of Chicago.

Spouse:

Home: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

1 FIS- Flying Instructor School

Base

Trenton, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/25381

Home

Google Map

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Final Burial

Google Map

St Mary Cemetery
Sec 1 Sub 1 Lot 77

1 Flying Instructor School, Trenton, Ontario. P/Os Ford and F. Hopkinson (RAF) were on a routine training flight and were both killed when Harvard aircraft FE 553 crashed at lot nine in the Murray Township, Ontario. Pilot Officer Pilot Ford is buried in St Mary's Cemetery at Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Harvard FE553

Pilot Officer Kenneth Ford RCAF

Pilot Officer Ford, Kenneth (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-May-28
St Mary Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Pilot Officer Fred Hopkinson RAFVR

Pilot Officer Hopkinson, Fred (RAFVR)

Killed in Flying Accident
1943-May-28
St George's Cemetery, Trenton, Ontario, Canada

Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk. IIB serial:FE553

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1943-May-28. Harvard IIB s/n FE553.

This accident involved 2 people. Hopkinson F, Ford K

This accident had 2 fatalities. Pilot Officer Kenneth Ford RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/25381 Harvard FE553, Pilot Officer Fred Hopkinson RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:151817 Harvard FE553

Unit Desciption

1 FIS (1 Flying Instructors School)

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - RCAF Station Trenton ON

NO1 FIS Trenton

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - Course List NO1 FIS Trenton ON

Project 44 BCATP

Unvetted Source Project 44 BCATP

YouTube YouTube - Valour Canada Aerodrome of Democracy