MacFadyen, Ian Lachlan (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1945-March-06

Flying Officer Ian Lachlan MacFadyen RCAF

Birth Date: 1923-October-08

Born:

Son of Alexander and Catherine MacFadyen, of Port Arthur, Ontario.

Home: Port Arthur, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

1 AFU- Advanced Flying Unit

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/36483
Prev: R/186683

Home
Google MapPort Arthur, Ontario
Final Burial
Google MapTamlaght Finlagan Church Of Ireland Churchyard
Plot W Grave 1

The aircraft was on a night navigation training exercise on a route Wigtown - Rathlin Island - Blackpool - Wigtown when the navigator lost his bearings near Rathlin. The pilot decided to loose height in an attempt to identify landmarks and flew into the north west slopes of Mullaghclogha in the Sperrins about 30 mins after midnight

FO IL MacFadyen J/36483 RCAF - Pilot Burried Tamlaght Finlagan CofI Churchyard, Warrant Officer J Pennack 1292351 RAF WOp Burried Southend on Sea, Sutton Road,Sergeant RA Button 3041475 RAF WOp Burried Bolstersone, St Mary's Churchyard Shefield, Flt Sergeant RH Gillian 37399 RAAF Burried Limavady St Mary's RC Churchyard

The fifth member of the crew Bomb Aimer Flt Sergeant TMD Shaxson RAF, was thrown clear by the force of the impact but suffered severe leg and other injuries, Michael Shaxson was not discovered until the late afternoon when two local men called Duffy and Griffin, who were coming off the mountain after digging drains, hears Shaxson's distress whistle and found him sitting in the aircrafts inflated rubber dinghy, surrounded by sheep! Michael Shaxson made a full recovery and with the co-operation of the society, returned to the crash site in 1982 to meet and thank his rescuers, for the first time since the incident, and was featured in a BBC TV documentary, only tiny fragments of the wreckage remain at the crash site

source: Malcolm Deeley, Ulster Aviation Society

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Anson serial: LV153

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.

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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YouTube Avro Anson History

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