Royal Canadian Air Force No. 6 Service Flying Training School

Photo by Colin Semple - February 14, 2008

Plaque Location

The County of Haldimand
On Port Maitland Road (Haldimand Road 11) about 4 km south of Highway 3
Co-ordinates: 42.878867 -79.586783

Plaque Text

With the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, one of Canada's major responsibilities was to provide air training facilities far removed from the theatre of war and so on December 17, 1939, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was inaugurated. The first of 107 air training schools was opened the following year, among them No. 6 S.F.T.S. on this 160 ha site at Dunnville. From then until the school officially closed November 25, 1944, this was home for many thousands of airmen and airwomen and 2436 pilots from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.A. received their coveted "wings". During that period, 47 Canadian, Commonwealth and American airmen paid the supreme sacrifice at No. 6 S.F.T.S. while serving King and Country.

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