[ courtesy Norm McRae ]
BCATP Station High River
No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School Located 30 km north of Nanton, the Town of High River has played a significant role in Canada's aviation history. "Have you figured out…
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. As the focus of a Commonwealth-wide effort to instruct aircrew, Canada made a major contribution to Allied air superiority during World War II.
BCATP Station Lethbridge
#5 Elementary Flying Training School The Kenyon Field Airport was completed as a civilian airfield and officially opened on June 7, 1939. Named after Air Commodore Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, it was…
BCATP Station Medicine Hat
#34 Service Flying Training School #34 SFTS opened in Medicine Hat on the site of the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Grounds south-east of town. It began operation as a…
BCATP Station Penhold
#36 Service Flying Training School #36 SFTS operated from September 28, 1941 to November 3, 1944. The former aerodrome is now the site of the Red Deer Regional Airport. No.…
Aircraft of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
In The Collection Airspeed Oxford Avro Anson Beechcraft 18 "Expeditor" Cessna Crane De Haviland Tiger Moth Fairchild Cornell Fleet Fawn North American Harvard North American Yale Westland Lysander Other BCATP…