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RCAF Station Lachine began operation in 1941 as a transit point for the ferrying of aircraft and the transportation of supplies to Europe during the Second World War. Until 1943, Lachine was the location of one of five British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) manning depots, No. 5 Manning Depot.
This is a list of stations operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), or stations where RCAF units existed, from 1924 until unification into the Canadian Forces on February 1, 1968. Some of the RCAF stations listed in this article link to facility descriptions containing the prefix "CFB" (Canadian Forces Base) or "CFS" (Canadian Forces ...
9 August 1951. Moved to RCAF Station Lachine, Quebec. 1 September 1959. Moved to CFB Trenton, Ontario. 1 February 1968. Integrated into the Canadian Armed Forces. 2 September 1975. Air Transport Command was redesignated Air Transport Group. [2]
This article contains a List of Facilities of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) in Canada. The BCATP was a major program for training Allied air crews during World War II that was administered by the Government of Canada, and commanded by the Royal Canadian Air Force with the assistance of a board of representatives from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
The collision that claimed the lives of 67 people Wednesday bore a hole in the heart of the tight-knit skating community in a Washington, D.C. suburb.
They moved to RCAF Station Lachine, Quebec, in March 1947, [3] [5] where it began using the North Star. [ 9 ] On March 8, 1948, a North Star of the squadron was used to make 426 Squadron's first flight to the Arctic with a flight from Dorval , Quebec , to Lansdowne House by way of Rockliffe, Resolute , and Trout Lake.
Crawford, however, said pre-deploying 25 of the 200 Series engines for a threatened wildfire — five times the number that were assigned the morning before the Palisades blaze — would have left ...
The RCAF adopted a new badge in 2013, which is similar to the pre-unification RCAF badge (although placed in the modern frame used for command badges). The Latin motto of Air Command – Sic itur ad astra – which was the motto of the Canadian Air Force when first formed after the First World War (before it became the Royal Canadian Air Force ...