Moore, William Irwin

Killed in Flying Accident 1944-05-12

Birth Date: 1919

Born:

Son of Charles and Bernice Moore, of Richmond.

Home: Richmond, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

23 EFTS- Elementary Flying Training School

Base

Davidson, Saskatchewan, Canada

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/29302

Home

Richmond, Ontario

First Burial

St. Paul's Cemetery, Richmond, Ontario, Canada

Flying Officer Moore and Leading Aircraftman D.L. Robinson were engaged in dual instrument instruction when their Cornell aircraft FH 923 broke up in the air. They were both killed when the aircraft crashed one and one half miles south-west of Simpson, Saskatchewan.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Cornell FH923

Flying Officer Moore, William Irwin (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1944-May-12
St Paul's Cemetery, Richmond, Ontario, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Robinson, Donald Lloyd (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1944-May-12
St Michel Cemetery, Sherbrooke, Quebec, 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

YouTube Cornell Trainer

Wikipedia Cornell Trainer

General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

23 EFTS (23 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.