MacNay, John Gordon

Killed in Flying Accident 1967-02-16

Birth Date: 1944-November-23

Born: Kincardine, Ontario

Son of Alex and Margaret MacNay. Brother of Robert, Donald, Kenneth MacNay.

Home: Kincardine, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: 1965-08-24

Service

RCAF

Unit

3 FTS- Flying Training School

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

89462

Home

Kincardine, Ontario

First Burial

Greenhill Cemetery, Lucknow, Ontario, Canada

Flying Officer D.W. Smith also killed.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

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Flying Officer MacNay, John Gordon (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1967-February-16
Greenhill Cemetery, Lucknow, Ontario, Canada

Beechcraft Expeditor

(RCAF Photo) (Source Harold A Skaarup web page)
Beechcraft CT-128 Expeditor Mk. 3TM (Serial No. A-734), (Serial No. CA-134), RCAF (Serial No. 1534), coded AO-N, Air Transport Command.

The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to November 1969 (over 32 years, a world record at the time), over 9,000 were built, making it one of the world's most widely used light aircraft. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, cargo aircraft, and passenger airliner on tailwheels, nosewheels, skis, or floats, it was also used as a military aircraft.

During and after World War II, over 4,500 Beech 18s were used in military service "“ as light transport, light bomber (for China), aircrew trainer (for bombing, navigation, and gunnery), photo-reconnaissance, and "mother ship" for target drones "“ including Royal Canadian Airforce (RCAF), United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) C-45 Expeditor, AT-7 Navigator, and AT-11 Kansan; and United States Navy (USN) UC-45J Navigator, SNB-1 Kansan, and others. In World War II, over 90% of USAAF bombardiers and navigators and pilots trained in these aircraft.

In the early postwar era, the Beech 18 was the pre-eminent "business aircraft" and "feeder airliner". Besides carrying passengers, its civilian uses have included aerial spraying, sterile insect release, fish stocking, dry-ice cloud seeding, aerial firefighting, air-mail delivery, ambulance service, numerous movie productions, skydiving, freight, weapon- and drug-smuggling, engine testbed, skywriting, banner towing, and stunt aircraft.Wikipedia

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