Jackman, John Charles (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1945-February-07

Flying Officer John Charles Jackman RCAF

Birth Date: 1920

Born:

Parents: Son of Ross and Nancy Jackman, of Dafoe, Saskatchewan; husband of Betty M. Jackman, of Kelowna

Spouse: Husband of Betty M. Jackman, of Kelowna

Home: Dafoe, Saskatchewan

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

13 EFTS- Elementary Flying Training School

Base

St Eugene, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/13726

Home

Dafoe, Saskatchewan

Final Burial

Kelowna Cemetery
Lot 15 Row 24

13 Elementary Flying Training School, St Eugene, Ontario. Cornell aircraft 14552 was undergoing a 12-hour test when it crashed into the ground at Pointe Fortune, Quebec. A Fleet Air Arm pilot, ALA. G. Hunter, not Canadian was also killed.

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Crew or Other Personnel

Cornell 14552

Flying Officer John Charles Jackman RCAF

Flying Officer Jackman, John Charles (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1945-February-07
Kelowna Cemetery, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Cornell serial: 14552

Fairchild Cornell Mk. II
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

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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Cornell 14552

Cornell Cornell III 14552

To No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School on 23 August 1943. Damaged in a crash while with this School on 22 November 1943. To No. 13 Elementary Flying Training School at St. Eugune, Ontario in early 1944. Category A crash on 7 February 1945, near Point Fortune, Quebec. Instructor Flying Officer J.C. Jackman, RCAF and student ALA G. Hunter, FAA killed.

1943-08-23 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
1943-November-17 Accident: 11 Elementary Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Charlebois
1944-June-22 Accident: 13 Elementary Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Perkins | Wigfield
1945-February-07 Accident: 13 Elementary Flying Training School Loc: 4 Mile From Base Names: Hunter | Jackman
1945-03-16 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Unit Desciption

13 EFTS (13 Elementary Flying Training School)

An Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) gave a trainee 50 hours of basic flying instruction on a simple trainer like the De Havilland Tiger Moth, Fleet Finch, or Fairchild Cornell over 8 weeks.Elementary schools were operated by civilian flying clubs under contract to the RCAF and most of the instructors were civilians. For example, No. 12 EFTS Goderich was run by the Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club and the County of Huron Flying Club.The next step for a pilot was the Service Flying Training School.