Hammond, Indiana, USA
16 Service Flying Training School, Hagersville, Ontario. Anson I aircraft 8266 crashed. Leading Aircraftman Pilot Steelman is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Hammond, Indiana, U.S.A.
Steelman, Richard Berton (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-January-06
Birth Date: 1915
Born:
Parents: Son of Berton John and Harriet Louise Steelman, of Hammond.
Spouse:
Home: Hammond, Indiana, USA
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/145299
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Anson 8266
Anson serial: 8266
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
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Avro Anson HistoryAircraft Images
Anson 8266
Anson Mk. II 8266
Delivered to stored reserve. Issued from storage on 4 June 1942. Request to scrap from No. 16 Service Flying Training School at Hagersville, Ontario dated 11 January 1943.1942-05-25 Taken on Strength No. 1 Training Command 2019-08-20
1943-January-06 Accident: 16 Service Flying Training School Loc: Morriston Names: Caskie | Jones | Steelman
1943-02-17 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
For More Info on RCAF Station Hagersville see here
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Hagersville ON
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