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Canadian Air Power in View

Winterized Cessna Crane (7945) version of the UC-78 in RCAF service. Signs such as this became part of the Canadian landscape as schools and airfields opened throughout the nation under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The sign reads “ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE / Service Flying Training School / BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN”. (DND Archives photo PL-3306) No. 12 Service Flying Training School at RCAF Brandon, Manitoba, exhibit the standard British Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield layout. (DND photo) No. 39 SFTS at RCAF Swift Current, Saskatchewan, exhibit the standard British Commonwealth Air Training Plan airfield layout. (DND photo) Beech SA18D (C-45), 1530, RCAF, Stanley, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1943. Ex CF-BMU donated to the RCAF in November 1939. Returned to CF-BMU in April 1945. The color of this aircraft is not known. Photographs taken on orthochromatic film which can make yellow look very dark and red look black. Bristol Beaufighter Mk. IIF (R2270), No. 40...