RCAF Station Mountain View
General Information
Location/Base: Mountain View, Ont
-run by Field Aviation East Ltd.
Province: Ontario
Years in Use: – Present
Units:
- No 6 Bombing and Gunnery School
- 23 June 1941
- Absorbed by RCAF at end BCATP
- Aircraft flown:
- Anson,
- Battle,
- Bolingbroke,
- Lysander,
- Harvard,
- Nomad
- Air Armament School
Commanding Officers:
Financial Impact:
Date/Reason for Closure:
Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
circa 1942.
thank you to Matt Heintz for this image.
Site Evolution
- The Publication On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978) lists the Aerodrome as “Mountain View – Military” – See photos on this page.
Current Status: Active Air Base, Detachment of Trenton, Ontario
On Track – 1978
Location – Google Map
Station Magazine
“Mountain Viewpoint”
Photo Gallery
(Source 97-07-027 – Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, B&W 3.5×4, Marcel Bonneau collection)
Daily Diary – Links – No. 6 Bombing & Gunnery School
1942
According to the daily diary, after January 1942 all Daily Diary for No 6 B&GS will be logged under RCAF Station Mountain View. Please see below.
Daily Diary – Links – RCAF Station Mountain View
1943
January
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1944
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1945
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1946
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Fatalities
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 6 Bombing & Gunnery School and other sources. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Mountain View, and likely includes some errors. Currently this list contains __ personnel.
13 June 1942
- Pilot Officer Jack Alpine McGregor
- Leading Aircraftman Denis William Paul Groves Showell
- Leading Aircraftman John Russel Dermott Young
16 February 1943
7 October 1943
- Sergeant Joseph Jean Andre Gagnon
- Sergeant Joseph Raoul Rene Lusser
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Alphonse Camille Adelard Paquin
- Flying Officer Donald Gordon Porter
- Pilot Officer Louis Joseph Prete
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Henri Rosaire Riopel
- Leading Aircraftman Leo Gerard Shields
- Leading Aircraftman Leo Frederick Smith
14 December 1943
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Snowden Collins
- Pilot Officer Allan Marshall Curry
- Leading Aircraftman William Nelson Galloway
- Leading Aircraftman Raymond Edward Jolly
24 February 1944
- Flying Officer William Elmer Kennedy
- Sergeant Donald William Sangster
- Leading Aircraftman Richard Howard Watt
- Sergeant Herbert Huson Wright
- Leading Aircraftman Norman Alistair Tilloch Wright
11 August 1944
Notable Alumni
Aircraft List –
Notes
- 20 March 1942 – LAC Barkwell, Air Gunner, returning from exercise shot up parade on route march, injuring F/L A.E. Brown and grazing one airman. Placed under close arrest and to be court martialed. – From Daily Diary.
Course List
No 6 Bombing & Gunnery School
Course List
RCAF Air Armament School
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- Site Plan:
- Aerodrome Disposal File:
- Operational Record Book
I am trying to find out more information regarding my uncle, LAC Thomas Goodwin, who went missing presumed dead on 16th Feb 1943 while he was at Mountain View. I have tried clicking on the fatalities list and nothing helped.
I believe that he was training in navigation and would like to know if that is true and wondered what type of aircraft he was in when he went missing over Lake Ontario.
Here is another source of information which provides more detail on the lost of Anson 7582.
https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/387761
It seems I just commented vice replied to you on the War Memorial web site information. Please look back on the RCAT.info web site.
On looking threw the War Memorial Pages, he was one of three who died; extra “FINDLATER, JOHN SGT(P) R110760. From Winnipeg, Manitoba. Killed Feb 16/43 age 23. #6 Bombing and Gunnery School, Mountain View, Ontario. Sgt Findlater, LACs T.J. Goodwin (RAF), and B.F. Garrad (RAF) were all killed when Anson aircraft #7582 crashed. Sergeant Pilot Findlater has no known grave, his name is inscribed on the Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario.”