Ottawa, Ontario
16 Service Flying Training School, Hagersville, Ontario. Leading Aircraftman Parslow was flying Anson aircraft 6708 and was practicing flying sequences 3,4,5,6,7,8,13,15, and 16 when his aircraft dived into the ground at high speed one mile south of Renton, Ontario.
Parslow, Harry William Herbert (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1942-March-07
Birth Date: 1923-January-28
Born:
Parents: Son of Harry and Maud Parslow, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Spouse:
Home: Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
16 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Hagersville, Ontario, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/111003
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comAnson serial: 6708
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
Harold A Skaarup Web Page
Avro Anson HistoryAircraft Images
Anson 6708
Anson Mk. I 6708
Ex RAF W2499. To No. 1 Training Command on 28 July 1941, for use by No. 16 Service Flying Training School at Hagersville, Ontario. Category C7 damage at Hagersville aerodrome at 19:55 on 20 December 1941. Category B damage at Hagersville aerodrome at 16:20 on 20 February 1942, when this Anson taxied into stationary Anson 7506. Category A crash at 11:45 on 7 March 1942, 1 mile south of Renton, Ontario (about 7 miles south-west of Hagersville aerodrome). Crashed at high speed, killing the lone occupant student pilot.1941-07-05 Taken on Strength de Havilland Canada 2019-08-20
1941-December-20 Accident: 16 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Whalley
1942-February-20 Accident: 16 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Garland | Smith
1942-March-07 Accident: 16 Service Flying Training School Loc: Renton Ontario Names: Parslow
1942-04-28 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
Unit Desciption
16 SFTS (16 Service Flying Training School)
Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.
There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.
Class115 SFTS16
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