RCAF Station Goderich
Location/Base: Goderich
Province: Ontario
Years in Use:
Units:
- No 12 Elementary Flying Training School
- sponsors
- Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club
- County of Huron Flying Club
- Formed – 14 October 1940
- Disbanded – 14 July 1944
- Aircraft Flown
- Fleet Finch
- sponsors
- Relief Landing Field – Goderich South
Commanding Officers:
Financial Impact:
Date/Reason for Closure:
Site Evolution:
- The Publication On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978) lists the Aerodrome as “Goderich” – See photos on this page.
Current Status:
Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
circa 1942.
On Track – 1978
Location – Google Map
Station Magazine
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Daily Diary – Links – No. 12 Elementary 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
Fatalities
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School and other sources. The list may not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Goderich. With input from various sources, so far there were __ deaths of service personnel that were stationed at Goderich.
16 September 1941
- LAC Melville Mason Hart, Jr
25 June 1942
- F/Sgt Lorne Chalmers Small
25 July 1942
- LAC William Melvin Morrison
26 August 1942
- WO2 Robert Bruce Reid
- LAC Douglas York
16 August 1943
- LAC Christopher Walter Kelly
16 November 1943
- A/L/A Samuel Edward Billington
Aircraft List
Notable Alumni
Course List
No 12 Elementary Flying Training School
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- Aerodrome Disposal File:
- Site Plans:
- Huron County Museum – An online gallery of professional photographs taken of airmen at No 12 EFTS
It might be good to add the link, below, to #12 EFTS in Goderich – to the resources for this school. Photographer named Henderson – locals digitized his photos, huge inventory of photos from this school.
https://kiosk.huroncounty.ca/exhibits/henderson-digitization-project/
Thank you for your suggestion, done.