Canadian Aircraft Serials Personnel Information Resource

ABOUT
CASPIR Data Archive Mission & Data Sources Significant Canadian Historians Our Team RCAF Assistance CASPIR Volunteering
CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
RESEARCH
CASPIR Resources
RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945)JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File
External Resources
RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records
Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg
John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft
AIRCRAFT
Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial
Lancaster FM213
CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
PERSONNEL
Name or Home Town Search Unit (Squadron) Search Aircraft Type or Serial Search Browse by Letter This Day in History Choose a Day in History
Prisoner of War Evaded Capture Interned in a Neutral Country Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft)Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)
Andrew Mynarski, VC
We Shall Remember Them.
HISTORY
✅ Start Here ✅ Glossary ✅ Canada and World War II ✅ Combatants & First Airmen Casualties ✅ Air Force Operations ✅ Battle of Britain ✅ Women in War ✅ War Artists
"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
CONTACT
Click here for Information Requests & Data Submissions
NEW & INTERESTING
Exceptionally Interesting Stories and Aircraft What is new in CASPIR?

loading (30) personnel records

196 Squadron (RAF) ( 30)

Flying Officer

Anderson, James Kennedy

Killed in Action

1944‑06‑06

Stirling (LJ841)

Hollyburn, British Columbia

Flight Sergeant

Auld, George Stanley (Hayden)

Prisoner of War

1943‑09‑01

Stirling (EH961)

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Warrant Officer 1st Class

Bancroft, Ernest Walter

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑20

Stirling (LJ988)

St Thomas, Ontario

Pilot Officer

Bartlett, Joseph Francis Allen

Prisoner of War

1944‑02‑05

Stirling (MkIII/)

Outremont, Quebec

Pilot Officer

Benning, Donovan Geoffrey

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑20

Stirling (LJ988)

Flying Officer

Benson, Robert Lowell

Killed in Action

1943‑02‑26

Wellington (HE161)

Ottawa, Ontario

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Clark, Glenn Greaves

Killed in Action

1943‑02‑14

Wellington (HE169)

Wycliffe, British Columbia

Flight Sergeant

Cragg, Terence Bowers

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑20

Stirling (LJ988)

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Donaldson, James

Killed in Action

1944‑02‑04

Stirling (EJ110)

Regina, Saskatchewan

Flying Officer

Gibbs, Reginald Cuthbert

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑19

Stirling (EF248)

Victoria, British Columbia

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Gordon, J A

Prisoner of War

1944‑09‑19

Stirling (EF248)

Mimico, Ontario

Warrant Officer 1st Class

Hunter, Calvert Hamilton

Killed in Flying Accident

1944‑02‑20

Stirling (EF468)

Ottawa, Ontario

Flying Officer

Kitchen, Harold Allen Nelson

Killed in Action

1943‑09‑17

Stirling (EF114)

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Flight Sergeant

Lysons, Ronald Cecil

Killed in Flying Accident

1944‑02‑20

Stirling (EF468)

Burntwood, Staffordshire, England

Flight Sergeant

Mabott, Cyril

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑20

Stirling (LJ988)

Sergeant

Matthews, Dennis Alec

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑19

Stirling (EF248)

Duncan, British Columbia

Sergeant

McCannell, Duncan Malcolm

Killed in Flying Accident

1944‑02‑20

Stirling (EF468)

Glasgow, Scotland

Warrant Officer 1st Class

McGovern, John Bruce

Killed in Action

1945‑02‑21

Stirling (LK126)

Toronto, Ontario

Flight Sergeant

Moore, David Francis

Prisoner of War

1943‑08‑24

Stirling (EH952)

Calgary, Alberta

Flight Sergeant

Murphy, Andrew Joseph

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑20

Stirling (LJ988)

Driver

Neale, G

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑20

Stirling (LJ988)

Driver

Nye, A

Prisoner of War

1944‑09‑20

Stirling (LJ988)

Flight Sergeant

Pierce, Charles Phillips

Killed in Action

1943‑09‑01

Stirling (MkIII/)

St Stephen, New Brunswick

Warrant Officer

Robinson, Edward Handley

Killed in Action

1943‑09‑19

Albemarle (P1528)

Victoria, British Columbia

Flying Officer

Sandell, Edward Horace

Prisoner of War

1943‑06‑26

Wellington (HE412)

Westmount, Quebec

Sergeant

Sawford, John Edward

Killed in Flying Accident

1944‑02‑20

Stirling (EF468)

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Simpson, Charles Arthur

Killed in Flying Accident

1944‑02‑20

Stirling (EF468)

Hamilton, Ontario

Flight Sergeant

Sullivan, Patrick William

Killed in Flying Accident

1944‑02‑20

Stirling (EF468)

Entwhistle, Alberta

Warrant Officer 1st Class

Tait, William Robert

Killed in Action

1944‑09‑20

Stirling (LJ988)

Toronto, Ontario

Warrant Officer 2nd Class

Woodruff, Lionel Howard

Killed in Action

1944‑02‑05

Stirling (EF469)

Calgary, Alberta

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

Lancaster FM213

Andrew Mynarski, VC

196 Squadron (RAF) ( 30)

Cookies