8 Air Observer School, Ancienne Lorette, Quebec. Anson aircraft crashed.
Kitts, John Stephen (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1944-May-23
Birth Date: 1921-November-22
Born:
Son of Michael and Pauline Kitts, of Sudbury.
Home: Sudbury, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
8 AOS- Air Observer School
Base
Ancienne Lorrette, Quebec, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Navigator
Service Numbers
R/200433
Home
Sudbury, Ontario
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Anson 11678
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Anson serial: 11678
Avro Anson Mk. V
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.
The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes. Harold Skaarup web pages
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Avro Anson HistoryAircraft Images
Anson 11678
Anson Mk. V 11678
First assigned to No. 8 Air Observers School at Ancienne Lorette, Quebec. Still with this School when it crashed on 23 May 1944. Came down near Point au Pic, Quebec (on the north shore of the St. Lawrance, 70 miles north-west of Quebec City). At least one fatality, Sgt. K. Fieldsend, RAF. To No. 9 Repair Depot at St. Jean, Quebec for salvage on 27 May 1944.1943-08-09 Taken on Strength No. 3 Training Command 2019-08-20
1944-May-23 Accident: 8 Air Observer School Loc: Charlevoix Names: Aspinall | Fieldsend | Kitts | Trow
1944-07-07 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
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Unit Desciption
8 AOS (8 Air Observer School)
Air Observers were later called "navigators". For recruits in this stream, the training path after ITS was 8 weeks at an Air Observer School (AOS), 1 month at a Bombing & Gunnery School, and finally 1 month at a Navigation School. The Air Observer schools were operated by civilians under contract to the RCAF. For example, Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were run by CP Airlines. However, the instructors were RCAF. The basic navigation techniques throughout the war years were dead reckoning and visual pilotage, and the tools were the aeronautical chart, magnetic compass, watch, trip log, pencil, Douglas protractor, and Dalton Navigational Computer. They trained in the Avro Anson.
NO8 AOS
RCAF.info - RCAF Station L'Ancienne Lorrette QC
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