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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."
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Hanisch, Charles Fuller (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-February-20

Pilot Officer Charles Fuller Hanisch RCAF

Birth Date: 1920-June-22

Born: Pawtucket Rhode Island USA

Parents: Son of Otto C. and Clara A. Hanisch, of South Attleboro. Manwell

Spouse:

Home: South Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

CFS- Central Flying School

Base

Trenton, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/8226

Home

Google Map

South Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA

Final Burial

Google Map

Newell Cemetery
Plot Lot L1

Central Flying School, Trenton, Ontario. P/Os Hanisch and J.D. Douglas were killed when Fleet Fawn aircraft 283 went into an inverted spin and crashed seven miles northwest of Frankford, Ontario. Pilot Officer Pilot Hanisch is buried in Newell Cemetery, South Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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

Crew or Other Personnel

Fawn 283

Pilot Officer John Dempsey Douglas RCAF

Pilot Officer Douglas, John Dempsey (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-February-20
Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Ontario, Canada

Pilot Officer Charles Fuller Hanisch RCAF

Pilot Officer Hanisch, Charles Fuller (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-February-20
Newell Cemetery, South Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA

Accident Card - Fleet Fawn II serial:283

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-February-20. Fleet Fawn s/n 283.

This accident involved 2 people. Douglas JD, Hanisch CF

This accident had 2 fatalities. Pilot Officer Charles Fuller Hanisch RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/8226 Fawn 283, Pilot Officer John Dempsey Douglas RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/9935 Fawn 283

Unit Desciption

CFS (Central Flying School)

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