RCAF Station Centralia
General Information
Location/Base: Centralia
Province: Ontario
Years in Use:
- 8 July 1942 – Fall 1966
Units:
- No 9 Service Flying Training School
- Formed – January 1941 at Summerside, Prince Edward Island
- relocated – from Summerside, Prince Edward Island on 6 July 1942
- Disbanded – June 1945
- Aircraft Flown:
- Anson,
- Harvard
- No 1 Aircrew Conditioning Unit-
- 1 Flying Training School
- 1945 – ? Jan 1946
- reactivated 1 Sept 1947
- 1 Radar and Communications School
- school was at RCAF Station Clinton, Ontario but required accommodations and facilities at Centralia
- Jan 1947 – Apr 1947
- 2 Radar & Communications School [R&CS Flight provided a/c]
- The support mentioned under No 1 Radar and Communications School, above, became this school
- April 1947-
- 1 Air Radio Officers School – Flying Squadron
- Sub-unit of the Air Radio Officers School, Clinton, Ontario
- May 1951 – September 1954
- No 1 Instrument Flying School
- relocated from Trenton Spring
- Medical Selection Unit
- School of English
- Primary Training School
- Primary Relief Landing Field – Grand Bend
- Secondary Relief Landing Field – St Joseph
Aircraft Types:
- No 1 FTS
- Anson,
- Harvard
- No 1 IFS
- Expeditor
Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
circa 1942.
Commanding Officers:
- Group Captain Fullerton
- Group Captain A.G. Kenyon ’59
Financial Impact:
Date/Reason for Closure/
- closed due to a consolidation throughout Training Command schools at time of closure
- primary flying school moved to Borden
- part of central officers school moved to fleet school at Esquimalt
- technical administration and non-flying list specialist training course moved to CFB Clinton,ON
Site Evolution:
- The Publication On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978) lists the Aerodrome as “Centralis/Huron Airpark” – See photos on this page.
Current Status:
Training Site Map – No 9 Service Flying Training School
Site Plan – Department of Transportation – circa 1946
Site Plan – Air Cadets – circa 1990
On Track – 1978
Location – Google Map
Photo Gallery
Thank you to Mike Anglin for sharing this photo with me (National Defence Image)
Station Magazine
“No 9 Flyer”
Station Magazine
“Coronet”
Daily Diary – Links – No. 9 Service Flying Training School
1942
School moved from Summerside, Prince Edward Island effective 6 July 1942. Please refer to Summerside for additional daily diary index.
1944
Historical Reports – 1 Flying Training School
1945
Historical Reports – Index – RCAF Station Centrailia
1948
August
(missing)
Fatalities
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 9 Service Flying Training School, and other sources. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Centralia, and likely includes some errors. Currently this list contains 17 personnel.
1 October 1942
7 November 1942
19 April 1943
25 July 1943
12 September 1943
14 January 1944
24 February 1944
3 April 1944
26 June 1944
28 July 1944
22 December 1944
24 July 1951
Aircraft List
Course List
No 9 Service Flying Training School
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- http://rcafcentralia.blogspot.ca/
- Operational Record Book – No. 9 Service Flying Training School