Estevan Cemetery
Anson - 8532 crashed in the low flying area 8 miles west of the main aerodrome while conducting an engine test. Flying Officer J.W. Bancroft, Leading Aircraftman B. Cox, Flight Sergeant E. Lucas, Leading Aircraftman N.K. Riley, and Leading Aircraftman P.R. Sayers were all killed.
Sayers, Philip Raymond (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-July-29
Birth Date: 1911
Born:
Parents: Son of Samuel Henry and Maria Elizabeth Eleanor Sayers
Spouse: husband of Joan Adelaide Sayers. of Long Itchington, Warwickshire, England.
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAF
Unit
38 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Service Numbers
1384788
School Daily Diary Entry - 1943-07-29
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)Crew or Other Personnel
Anson 8532
Anson serial: 8532
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 8532
Anson Mk. II 8532
Delivered to stored reserve. Issued from storage on 9 April 1942, for use by No. 38 Service Flying Training School at Estevan, Saskatchewan. Still with this School when it crashed in the summer of 1943. To No. 8 Repair Depot on 26 August 1943.1942-02-21 Taken on Strength No. 2 Training Command 2019-08-20
1943-July-29 Accident: 38 Service Flying Training School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bancroft | Cox | Lucas | Riley | Sayers
1943-09-04 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
Unit Desciption
38 SFTS (38 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.
SFTS31 NO38 SFTS Plaque
For more information on RCAF Station Estevan see here
RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Estevan SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Outram SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Chandler SK
Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial - 11 SFTS Yorkton History
Vintage Wings - Ghosts Of Saskatchewan