McIlveen, Roy McVicar

Killed in Flying Accident 1944-09-05

Birth Date: 1922

Born:

Son of Edward Roy and Pauline Edith McIlveen, of Hanna, Alberta.

Home: Hanna, Alberta

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

10 EFTS- Elementary Flying Training School

Base

Pendleton, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Pilot Officer

Service Numbers

J/43836

Home

Hanna, Alberta

First Burial

Hanna Cemetery, Hanna, Alberta

Pilot Officer W.J. Doughty and Pilot Officer R.M. McIlveen were on an instrument practice flight and were killed when Cornell aircraft FH 735 crashed one mile east of Treadmill, Ontario. Crash occurred approximately 5 miles north of Plantaganet at approximately 1530 hours.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

This incident involved multiple aircraft:

Cornell Mk. I Serial: FH735

All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.

Findagrave.com

Cornell FH735

Pilot Officer Doughty, William John (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1944-September-05
Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pilot Officer McIlveen, Roy McVicar (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1944-September-05
Hanna Cemetery, Hanna, Alberta, Canada

Fairchild Cornell

Fairchild Cornell Mk. II
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

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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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Wikipedia Cornell Trainer

General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

10 EFTS (10 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.