7 AOS- Air Observer School (RCAF)

Air Observers were later called "navigators". For recruits in this stream, the training path after ITS was 8 weeks at an Air Observer School (AOS), 1 month at a Bombing & Gunnery School, and finally 1 month at a Navigation School. The Air Observer schools were operated by civilians under contract to the RCAF. For example, Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were run by CP Airlines. However, the instructors were RCAF. The basic navigation techniques throughout the war years were dead reckoning and visual pilotage, and the tools were the aeronautical chart, magnetic compass, watch, trip log, pencil, Douglas protractor, and Dalton Navigational Computer. They trained in the Avro Anson.
NO7 AOS Course

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - RCAF Station Portage la Prairie Manitoba

unvetted Source Manitoba Historical Society - Portage Airport

Museum Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - 7 AOS History

unvetted Source University of Alberta -Souvenir History Of 7 AOS

Project 44 BCATP

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Unit Accident Records: 7 AOS 7 Air Observer School RCAF (147)

1941-August-12 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Francis Lake Manitoba Names: Cutts | Pigeon | Smith | Sparrow
1942-January-26 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Fort Embina North Dakota Names: Fisher | Mallett | McCaw | Walker
1942-March-22 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Kenora Ontario Names: Balcombe | Board | Dimcombe | Passmore
1942-April-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Moore | Relf | Siddle
1942-April-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Moore | Relf | Siddle
1942-July-07 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Linton | Mcnaught | Niles | Stanford
1942-July-07 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Linton | Mcnaught | Niles | Stanford
1942-August-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 1 Mile North Of Airport Names: Bowery | Jones | Kosloff | Raison
1942-September-10 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gates | O'Callaghan
1942-September-10 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gates | O'Callaghan
1942-October-09 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Darlingford Manitoba Names: Botterill | Cameron | Hartland | White
1942-October-14 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bronson | Loveday | Piper
1942-December-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Komarno Manitoba Names: Brown | McClure | Mckenzie | Sabine
1942-December-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: St Charles Manitoba Names: Mckanzie
1942-December-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Riverton Manitoba Names: Heddie | Moody | Richard | Thompson
1942-December-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Dacotah Manitoba Names: Jessup | Kelleher | Maitland | Mcintyre
1942-December-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Marquette Manitoba Names: Chandler | Checkley | Housden | Mahoney
1942-December-21 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 4½ Mile West Of 7 AOS Names: Barber | Croft | Mcintyre | Weatherley
1943-January-04 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baker | Mckillop | Renwick
1943-January-04 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cameron | Hickson | Rowell
1943-February-18 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gates | Mckinnon | Milne
1943-March-01 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 6 Mile South Of Birtle Man Names: Androsen | Marshall | Opie | Spence
1943-March-12 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Winnipeg Manitoba Names: Chambers | Mcnalley | Morton | Strong
1943-June-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: O'Neill
1943-June-18 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Steedon
1943-June-18 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Steedon
1943-August-17 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Mckenzie | Mellor | Mitchell | Parker | Yarham
1943-August-17 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Mckenzie | Mellor | Mitchell | Parker | Yarham
1943-August-18 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names:
1943-August-24 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baigent | Keane | Ritchie | Stevenson
1943-August-24 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baigent | Keane | Ritchie | Stevenson
1943-September-30 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Souris Names: Hesketh | Horan | Oldman | Passmore | Taylor
1943-October-24 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Austin Names: Chenier | Glendinning | Jones | Katrichak | Stevens
1943-November-04 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Coates
1943-November-19 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Green | Reeves
1943-November-26 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Rcaf Airport Souris Names: Anderson | Currie | Danton | Durman | Metcalfe
1943-December-11 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harris
1943-December-22 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Nil
1943-December-22 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Nil
1943-December-22 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Nil
1943-December-29 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Nil
1944-January-29 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brown | Callum | Ennion | Mcinnes | Smith
1944-January-29 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brown | Callum | Ennion | Mcinnes | Smith
1944-February-01 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names:
1944-February-01 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names:
1944-February-11 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Andrews | Brackenbury | Mcdonald | Morrison | Uden
1944-February-20 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brondum | Ennion | Lewis | Roberts | Thompson
1944-February-28 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names:
1944-March-03 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Giffen
1944-March-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Birkett | Burley | Krnac | Morrison | Thompson
1944-March-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Birkett | Burley | Krnac | Morrison | Thompson
1944-March-09 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Stockton Names: Blowers | Foulds | Murray | Scott
1944-March-30 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 12 Service Flying Training School Brandon Manitoba Names: Davison | Fletcher | Newall | Norris | Parsons
1944-April-11 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Broadhead | Cody | Hebbel | Joyce | Simpson
1944-April-19 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: I CNova Scotia Rivers Names: Hawarth | Mcintyre | Metcalfe | Richards | Scrivens
1944-April-24 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baillie | Batho | Beech | Bright | Hitchins
1944-April-25 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Winnipeg Manitoba Names: Hurst | Leech | Rollack | Welsby
1944-May-10 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Souris Names: Blenkin | Keveriga | Lingley | McCall
1944-May-16 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gerow | Jones | Tate
1944-May-25 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Conner | Donovan | Hawker | Mounsey | Thompson
1944-May-30 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Elsande | Fenn | Passmore | Round
1944-June-01 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Moorehead | Pufall | Slade | Warder
1944-June-02 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Eby | Green | Lapp | Linsley | Wotherspoon
1944-June-02 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gingars | Maxwell | Richards
1944-June-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Marsh | Merkel | Price | Round
1944-June-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 12 Service Flying Training School Brandon Names: Cummings | Milne | Scott | Simmons | White
1944-June-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Coolidge | McCarthy | Swadden
1944-June-07 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Fisher | Keys | Milne | Simpson | Williams
1944-June-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Souris Names: Annable | Choiniere | Deschields | Parker | Plewman
1944-June-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Rivers Manitoba Names: Dron | Ingham | Kerr | McConnechy | Williams
1944-June-09 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Brandon Manitoba Names: Archer | Donovan | Grant | Wellspring | Williams
1944-June-09 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Froese | Hatton | Higgins | Taylor | Tooth
1944-June-20 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Braden | Cody | Coolidge | Ritchie
1944-June-24 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Chekaluk | Rainnie | Usselman | Weller
1944-July-04 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hodgson | Price | Spiers | Swadden
1944-July-09 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Byberg | Evans | Gould | Johnston | Usselman
1944-July-09 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barry | Miller | Murray | Roluf | Slader
1944-July-11 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bladon | Des Landes | Evans | Sanders | Stocks
1944-July-12 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Allen | Gurba | Hopkins
1944-July-12 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Davison | Davy | Evans | Smith
1944-July-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Clogg | Dunbar | Kingsbury | Langshaw | Merkel
1944-July-14 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Virden Airport Names: Baillie | Bernreiter | Goertzen | St Arnaud | Walmsley
1944-July-14 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hershfield | Lindsay | Moorehead | Price
1944-July-15 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Glendenning | Jolly | Mendelovitch | Smalley
1944-July-16 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Souris Airport Names: Clogg | Grant | Leaney | Tunnoch | Williams
1944-July-18 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Merkel | Naylor | Richardson | Williams
1944-July-18 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Kersteins | Martin | Mellor | Usselman
1944-July-19 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Anderson | Begley | Crowe | Eakin | Ferry | Gillis | Linsley | Miles | Pennell | Reid
1944-July-19 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Anderson | Begley | Crowe | Eakin | Ferry | Gillis | Linsley | Miles | Pennell | Reid
1944-July-20 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cornick | Murray | Rowley
1944-July-24 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Dunbar | Hawgood | Henley | Mcdougall | Rush
1944-July-25 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Donovan | Etherton | Lewis | Wrightson
1944-July-26 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harris | Holford | Kerr | Linsley | Miles
1944-August-01 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Chiswell | Parsons | Wilson
1944-August-02 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Souris Airport Names: Grainger | Taylor | Trumphour
1944-August-03 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names:
1944-August-05 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baylis | Forster | Kerstiens | Kinsbury | Stewart
1944-August-05 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Rivers Rcaf Names: Kerr | Lavitt | Swan | White
1944-August-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Beavis | Brown | Calder | Cosgrove | Rylance
1944-August-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Boland | Chatwin | Miles | Rigby | Ross
1944-August-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brown | Forrest | Miller | Seaman
1944-August-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bostock | Donovan | McCormack | Ray | Shutty
1944-August-19 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bennett | Kerr | Koch | Wand
1944-August-21 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Clifford | Findlay | Wilke
1944-August-21 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Sutherland | Taylor | Taylor
1944-August-25 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Maxwell | Rinaldi | Shaw | Watt
1944-August-29 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Haag | Lavit | McCabe | Wood
1944-September-03 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Blake | Forest | Mackenzie | Moe | Parker
1944-September-05 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brandvold | Calkin | Cameron | Parsons
1944-September-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Evans | Fletcher | Goldthrop | Small | Wrightson
1944-September-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bennett | Burt | Houghton | Steeds
1944-September-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Veal | Whittaker | Wittman | Wood
1944-September-18 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Deneise | Hawood | Illing | Moe
1944-September-20 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Anderson | Comartin | Crotchley | Steeds
1944-September-21 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brown | Coutts | Hopkins | Sigal
1944-September-21 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Beatty | Birch | Heath | Singleton
1944-September-22 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cooper | Curry | Langford | Taylor
1944-September-22 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Winnipeg Airport Names: Deutson | Harper | O'Donnell | Thompson | Willis
1944-September-27 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Alexander | Hulford | Murray | Thompson
1944-September-29 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cox | Lowe | Murray | Steele
1944-October-01 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Donovan | Halliwell | Lewis | Metcalfe | Powell
1944-October-03 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Birkett | Dash | Milne | Veal
1944-October-04 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport 7 AOS Names: Beatty | Edwards | Inglis | Light | Sharpe
1944-October-05 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Carberry Manitoba Names: Delong | Simpson | Thomas | Thorston | Tyler
1944-October-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Chekaluk | Crow | Ferry | Stephens
1944-October-09 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Ehranworth | Ewen | Galbraith | Hurle | Lemay
1944-October-10 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Evans | Mcfarland | Penny | Tippett
1944-October-11 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Grant | Little | Martin | Whitley | Wilson
1944-October-11 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Souris Manitoba Names: Armitage | Gillis | Lloyd | Prochnicki | Reel
1944-November-24 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 7 AOS Airport Names: Haoke | Symonds | Thompson | Thompson
1944-November-30 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 7 AOS Airport Names: Coleby | Mackrill | Taylor
1944-December-01 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 7 AOS Airport Names: Acheson | Degraff | Peake
1944-December-02 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport 7 AOS Names: Anderson | Clark | Dron | Hall | Robenson
1944-December-05 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Souris Rcaf Names: Dumville | Hurle | Jenkins | Shinborn
1944-December-06 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Henry | Quesseth | Reich | Stuckenberg | Sukkav
1944-December-10 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Cowie | McCabe | Parkyn | Simmons
1944-December-19 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Rivers Rcaf Airport Names: Bailey | Knowles | Parker | Windsor
1944-December-20 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Gasparich | Hichfield | Hughson | Sawyer | Tibbits
1944-December-30 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Acheson | Fearnley | Henry | Knudsen | Stanton
1945-January-26 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Bailey | Beauchamp | Keith | Orr
1945-January-31 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Henderson | Jones | Nain | Peake | Willis
1945-February-09 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: 50 Mile NEast Of Base Names: Blaza | Delong | Hennings | New | Spaven
1945-February-27 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Brandon Names: Connolly | Coutts | Gates | Wilmot | Young
1945-March-08 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Coulter | James | Muldoon | O'Neil | Taylor
1945-March-12 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Allard | Choiniere | Filson | Herbert | Light
1945-March-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Hollebon | Scroop | Smith | Thompson | White
1945-March-13 Accident: 7 Air Observer School Loc: Airport Names: Hocking | Mackie | Miles | Thorlackson

Unit Casualtues: 7 AOS 7 Air Observer School RCAF (18)

Charles Eric Raison
1942-August-13
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6077
Reginald Jones
1942-August-13
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6077
Cyril Kenneth George Bowrey
1942-August-13
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6077
Charles Henry White
1942-October-09
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6523
Eltham, London, England (parents)
Ernest Hartland
1942-October-09
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6523
Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, England (parents)
Donald Arnott Cameron
1942-October-09
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6523
Winnipeg, Manitoba (parents)
Thomas Aba Botterill
1942-October-09
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6523
Vancouver, British Columbia (parents)
C B Barber
1942-December-21
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6234
William Edward Weatherley
1942-December-21
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6234
Walter Steven Croft
1942-December-21
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6234
Peter Douglas McIntyre
1942-December-21
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6234
Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA (parents)
Alexander Balfour Spence
1943-March-01
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6503
Dudley John Opie
1943-March-01
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6503
Arthur Dennison Marshall
1943-March-01
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6503
Richard Cyril Jones
1944-May-16
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6570
Morris, Manitoba