British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

There are two plaques titled
"British Commonwealth Air Training Plan"
on this page.
The first is in the County of Hastings.
The second is in the County of Huron.

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2009

Plaque Location

The County of Hastings
The City of Quinte West
In Trenton, at Canadian Forces Base Trenton,
south of Dundas Street East
at the traffic lights at Anson Avenue in a small parkette
between Yukon and Oxford Streets

Coordinates: N 44 06.473 W 77 31.918

Plaque Text

Created as a result of an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Canada on 17 December, 1939 this Plan was one of Canada's most important contributions to the Allied war effort in World War II. Over 130,000 airmen from the forces of the Commonwealth and other countries, including pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators and gunners, trained at schools established across Canada. Many of the instructors who were the mainstay of the Plan came from the Trenton base. Airfields built for the Plan became part of Canada's postwar aviation network.

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted October, 2004

Plaque Location

The County of Huron
The Town of Goderich
At Goderich Sky Harbour Airport
in front of the main airport building
3.8 km north from the junction of Highways 8 and 21 in Goderich
via Highway 21 and Airport Road (Road 37)

Coordinates: N 43 45.743 W 81 42.634

Plaque Text

With the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, one of Canada's major responsibilities was to provide air training facilities removed from the theatre of war. On December 17, 1939, the Plan was inaugurated. The first schools were opened the following year, among them No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School here at Sky Harbour. At the height of operations there were 38 training units in Ontario alone, including 32 air training schools. Before termination of the Plan on March 31, 1945, these and 70 similar establishments elsewhere in Canada trained over 300,000 aircrew, ground crew and airwomen, mostly from Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand but including American volunteers and escapees from Nazi-occupied Europe.

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