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RCAF Station Carberry

General Information

Base / Station: Carberry

Province: Manitoba

Dates of Operation: 1940 – 1944

Location:

Units:

No. 33 Service Flying Training School
Primary Relief Landing Field (R1) Petrel
Secondary Relief Landing Field (R2) Oberon

Structures:

Commanding Officers:

Group Captain C.H. Brill
- as at June – Aug 1942
Group Captain T.B. Bruce, M.C. –
- ? 1943 – ? Nov 43
- as at Mar and Apr 1943
Group Captain J.S.T. Fall
- ? Nov 43 – ?

Unit Duties / Information:

December 26, 1940 No. 33 Service Flying Training School was opened to give pilots advanced flying training. This school, as with all others across Canada prefixed by a ‘3’, was an RAF school that had been sent over from Britain due to the danger involved in training there.

In the beginning, these RAF schools functioned separately from the BCATP but, in June 1942, modifications were made to the agreement and they incorporated into the BCATP system and, consequently, RCAF administration.

RCAF Aerodrome Carberry, Manitoba.
Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
c.1942

Aircraft Flown: Anson

Financial Impact:

Station Magazine/Newspaper: Gen!

Date / Reason for closure:

November 17, 1944 No. 33 SFTS closed with the acceleration of the BCATP phase-out. In response to the changing tide of the war overseas and the forecasted end to it shortly, many air training centres were closed and the personnel discharged.
Disbandment Order:
- https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c12353/1195?r=0&s=1

Site details:

Aerodrome:

Runways:

Railway Spur:

Married Quarters: None

Site Evolution:

The Publication On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978) lists the Aerodrome as “Carberry – Lat:49 51N – Long:99 20W – GMT-6(5) – 62SE, E-17 – Abandoned”

Current Status: abandoned airfield, all runways still exist but overgrown, one hangar still exists as part of MacCain indust. Plant

Site Plan – 1944

RCAF Station Carberry, Manitoba (1944)
Source – 1 Canadian Air Division, RCAF
Please click on image to download a PDF copy.

Site Plan – 1952

RCAF Station Carberry, Manitoba (1952)
Source – 1 Canadian Air Division, RCAF
Please click on image to download a PDF copy.

Location – Google Map

Station Magazine
“Journal of the RAF in Carberry”

Station Magazine
“GEN!”

Daily Diary – Transcription Links – No. 33 Service Flying Training School

The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba has created a transcription of this Daily Diary.
Their web site is AirMuseum.ca

Download Transcription

Fatalities

This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 33 Service Flying Training School and the list of fatalities in Canada compiled by the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton, Alberta. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Carberry, and likely includes some errors. Currently we have 27 fatalities listed for Carberry.

4 April 1941