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The Royal Canadian Air Cadets (French: Cadets de l'Aviation royale du Canada) is a Canadian national youth program for young individuals aged 12 to 18.Under the authority of the National Defence Act, the program is administered by the Canadian Forces (CF) and funded through the Department of National Defence (DND).
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 Air Cadet League of Canada is a volunteer organization that provides financial support and oversight to the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. The Air Cadet League owns all of the aircraft used in the Air Cadet Gliding Program. The League is organized into three levels: the National, the Provincial, and the local level, each of which is responsible ...
Cadet musicians of the 226 Air Cadet Pipeband at their annual review at the Colisée de Trois-Rivières in Quebec in May 2008. An Army Cadet band during a parade in Vancouver in 2014. The three Cadet organizations maintain a number of volunteer bands, typically assisted by members of Canadian military bands in the Regular Force and Primary ...
Course cadets participate in the Canadian National Cadet Fullbore Championship, the United Kingdoms International Fullbore Championship in Bisley, England and the Dominion of Canada Rifle Associations' National Fullbore Championship. For most of the summer cadets are based in Bisley, England. [3] Sunset after a hot summer day at Connaught Ranges.
Although military pilot training in Canada dates back to the early years of the 20th century, [1] the modern Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) pilot training organization got its start in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) with the formation of service flying training schools one of which, No. 1 Service Flying Training School (No. 1 SFTS) [2] at Camp Borden, Ontario, specialized ...
The Trenton Cadet Training Centre (CTC) is one of the oldest cadet training centres in Canada. At this CTC, there are cadet courses offered for all three elements of Army, Sea and Air that are offered all year around. This portion of the base, located on the south side of the airbase, has multiple buildings for cadets to reside in during their ...
In more recent times the college had been growing quicker than ever, becoming the largest in Canada. In 2006 the school was awarded the largest pilot training contract ever in Canada, to train 800 Chinese pilots. [4] The college announced in 2007 it would soon open a new campus in Fredericton to handle the quickly increasing student population. [5]