RCAF Station Penhold
General Information
Base / Station: Penhold
- RCAF Station Penhold 1940-Oct 44
- RCAF Station Penhold 12 May 52-May 65
- CFB Penhold May 65-Aug(?) 95
Province: Alberta
Dates of Operation or Period of Information: 1941-44, 1952-1995
Units:
- No 2a “M” Depot (Temporary)
- Manning Depot, Basic Military Training for Air Force Personnel.
- Formed – 28 April 1941
- No 36 Service Flying Training School
- Formed – 20 August 1941
- Disbanded – 3 November 1944
- multi-engine school
- Aircraft Flown:
- Oxford
- No 4 FTS
- Formed – 25 May 1952
- Disbanded – 19 May 1965
- advanced flight school
- Aircraft Flown:
- Harvard
- 743 Comm Sqn
- Formed – March 1964
- 43 Radar Sqn
- Pinetree site, was not co-located. click on link for more information
- Primary Relief Landing Field – Innisfail (R1)
- Secondary Relief Landing Field – Blackfalds (R2)
Commanding Officers:
- Group Captain M.P. Martyn
Financial Impact:
Date / Reason for Closure:
Current Status: forms nucleus for larger industrial airfield, most original runways/taxiways/ramp and base buildings still exist
Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
circa 1942.
Site Plan – 1952
Source – 1 Canadian Air Division, RCAF
Please click on the image if you would like to download a PDF copy of this site plan.
Location – Google Map
Station Magazine
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Daily Diary – Links – No. 2a “M” Depot (Temporary)
1941
Though in existence until 23 August 1941 I have not found the Daily Diary of the school for the month of August 1941. Effective 23 August 1941 The school was disbanded and all personnel were merged into No 3 “M” Depot, Edmonton, Alberta.
Daily Diary – Links – No. 36 Service Flying Training School
1942
Fatalities
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 36 Service Flying Training School and other sources. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Penhold, and likely includes some errors. Currently this list contains 25 personnel.
26 December 1941
6 January 1942
29 January 1942
30 January 1942
10 March 1942
27 July 1942
29 October 1942
9 April 1943
13 June 1943
14 July 1943
16 September 1943
2 January 1944
26 January 1944
17 March 1944
24 April 1944
5 May 1944
4 June 1954
2 December 1954
28 July 1955
Aircraft List
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- Bomber Command Museum of Canada
http://civildefencemuseum.ca/penhold-ab
http://civildefencemuseum.ca/cfb-penhold-archives
Thank you for your links… I feel the links would be more appropriately attached to the page on the Penhold Radar site. Which so far is woefully incomplete. I will add them to the links list on the page… https://rcaf.info/rcaf-stations/alberta-rcaf-stations/rcaf-station-penhold-radar/
Looking for more info on ground equipment during the 50ties to 70 era. Articulary 3/4ton dodge amb.
I have thought about adding pages detailing different support equipment used by the RCAF over the last century. I am not sure if and when I will branch into that area of documentation. Are there specific questions you have?