Re-creation of a BCATP base at the Western Development Museum, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

All of these graduates, however, were retained by the BCATP in Canada, as instructors, staff pilots or in similar flying assignments.

The first BCATP personnel sent to the UK were 37 Canadian observers, who received their wings at RCAF Trenton, near Trenton, Ontario, on 27 October 1940.

By mid-1940, Canadian flying instructors were primarily employed in the BCATP and in order to increase the numbers of flying instructors, the RCAF began a campaign to recruit American pilots. Air Marshall W. A.

The classic BCATP airport consisted of three runways, each typically 2, 500 ft ( 760 m ) in length, arranged in a triangle so that aircraft could always land ( more-or-less ) into the wind — that was critically important at a time when most light training aircraft ( such as the North American Harvard ) were taildraggers, which are difficult to land in strong cross-winds.

There were more aircrew training schools in Britain, but the BCATP taught and evaluated 131, 553 pilot, navigator, observer, wireless ( radio ) operator, air gunner, wireless air gunner and flight engineer recruits from around the world, plus 5, 296 graduates from Royal Air Force ( RAF ) schools.

Supporting the Mosquito BCATP training were the Airspeed Oxford and Bristol Bolingbroke.

That triangular runway outline is perfectly preserved at Gananoque Airport, but is still easily visible under later runway extensions at most Canadian BCATP airports, such as Kingston / Norman Rogers Airport, Boundary Bay Airport and Pendelton, Ontario airport.

While most of the airports involved in the plan have either closed or gone through extensive changes, Pendleton still preserves most of the original character of a BCATP airport: it has the original three short runways arranged in a triangle ( though some are in disrepair ), and several of the original WWII buildings, including the main hangar.

Harvard II from the BCATP Museum in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

A new training site was set up at North Bay, taking advantage of the uncluttered skies and freedom from major built-up areas that had made the airport an ideal BEATP / BCATP candidate.

The de Havilland Tiger Moth was a basic trainer of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ) during the Second World War, whereby air crews from all over the British Commonwealth trained in Canada.

These war-time anti-submarine patrols, combined with BCATP training, led to dozens of aircraft crashes throughout the first year of the base being operational, resulting in the deaths of Canadians, as well as 31 airmen from the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ; " The Plan "), known in some countries as the Empire Air Training Scheme ( EATS ), was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, during the Second World War.

BCATP / EATS remains as one of the single largest aviation training programs in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ), Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) during the war.

Southern Rhodesia at the time was a British Crown Colony ( rather than a Dominion ) and was not involved in the negotiation or signing of the BCATP ; the Southern Rhodesia Air Force was subsumed by the RAF in 1940.

Under the Air Training Agreement, Australia undertook to provide 28, 000 aircrew over three years, representing 36 % of the total number trained by the BCATP.

RCAF Cessna AT-17 Bobcat | Cessna Crane as employed in the BCATP on display at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.

King government saw involvement in the BCATP as a means of keeping Canadians at home, but more importantly, it eased demands for a large expeditionary force and buried the politically divisive issue of overseas conscription.

From 1940 he directed BCATP training.

The BCATP was an impressive and uniting national achievement.

On the third anniversary of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, in a message ghost written by Lester B. Pearson, serving at the Canadian legation in Washington, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt enthused that the BCATP had transformed Canada into the " aerodrome of democracy ", a play on his earlier description of the United States as " the Arsenal of Democracy.

Many of these problems would be surmounted with the implementation of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ) during the Second World War.

During the war, the RCAF was involved in three areas: the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ), home defence, and overseas operations.

In January 1942, Clive Caldwell – the highest-scoring Australian ace of the war – became the first BCATP / EATS graduate to command a RAF squadron ( 112 Sqn ).

In addition to the BCATP program, RAF Station Greenwood was involved in combat operations through maritime reconnaissance to counter U-boat activity in the western Atlantic.

By the end of 1942, the BCATP program was changing across Canada in light of Allied successes in Europe.

During the Second World War, both Camp Borden and RCAF Station Borden became the most important training facility in Canada, housing both army training and flight training, the latter under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ).

At the outbreak of World War II, Kenyon Field became a training facility under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ).

The training plan, known as the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ), was administered by the Canadian government and commanded by the RCAF.

The relatively fog-free climate of the farming hamlet of Greenwood was selected by the Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal Air Force for an airfield as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ), following the signing of that formal agreement on December 17, 1939.

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