Toronto, Ontario
13 Service Flying Training School, St Hubert, Quebec. Leading Aircraftman Guthrie was engaged in night flying training and was killed when Harvard aircraft 3110 hit a barn and crashed one mile north-east of the aerodrome at St Hubert. A ground fog, which had formed suddenly, obscured the aerodrome lights and he was apparently circling low in an attempt to find them.
Guthrie, Robert Haig (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1941-November-19
Birth Date: 1917
Born:
Parents: Son of John and Mathilda Guthrie, of Toronto; husband of Ethel J. Guthrie, of Toronto.
Spouse: Husband of Ethel J. Guthrie, of Toronto.
Home: Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
13 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
St Hubert, Quebec, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/93322
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk.IIB serial:3110
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1941-November-19. Harvard II s/n 3110.
This accident involved 1 person. Guthrie RH
This accident had 1 fatality. Leading Aircraftman Robert Haig Guthrie RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/93322 Harvard 3110
Unit Desciption
13 SFTS (13 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.
Class NO13 EFTS
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