Campbellcroft, Ontario
Cessna Crane aircraft 8162 was engaged in a bombing exercise when it was in a mid-air collision with Cessna Crane aircraft 7905. Flying Officer Quantrill and Leading Aircraftman D.G. Barnes were the only casualties and were killed when aircraft 81 62 crashed and burned three miles west and one half mile south of the aerodrome at Brandon.
Quantrill, Elwin Stanbury (Flying Officer)
Killed in Flying Accident 1944-May-16
Birth Date: 1922
Born:
Parents: Son of Cecil Adelbert Quantrill and Cora Susan Quantrill, of Campbellcroft; husband of Vivian Maude. Quantrill, of Port Hope.
Spouse: Husband of Vivian Maude. Quantrill, of Port Hope.
Home: Campbellcroft, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
12 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
J/26480
Prev: R/161264
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
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Crane 8162
Accident Card - Cessna Crane Mk. I serial:8162
This accident involved 2 aircraft on 1944-May-16. They are: Cessna Crane I s/n 8162, Cessna Crane I s/n 7905.
This accident involved 4 people. Barnes DG, Quantrill ES, Shirt E, Yousie H
This accident had 2 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman David George Barnes RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/206120 Crane 8162, Flying Officer Elwin Stanbury Quantrill RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/26480 Crane 8162
Unit Desciption
12 SFTS (12 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.
Cessna Crane
For More information on RCAF Station Brandon see here
RCAF.info - Station Brandon MB
RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Chater MB
12 SFTS Brandon MB History
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