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RCAF Station Summerside
Canadian Forces Base Summerside

General Information

Location/Base: Summerside

Province: Prince Edward Island

Dates of Operation or Period of Information:

Units: 

  • No 9 Service Flying Training School
  • 1 General Reconnaissance School
    • Formed – 6 July 1942
  • Central Air Navigation School
    • Formed – 15 September 1945
    • Aircraft Flown:
  • 2 (M) Operational Training Unit
    • Formed – 14 November 1953
    • Aircraft Flown:
  • 1 Air Navigation School
    • Formed – fall 1948
    • Aircraft Flown:
  • Maritime Proving & Evaluation Unit
    • Formed – 1 August 1959
    • Aircraft Flown:
  • 880 Maritime Reconnaissance Sqn
    • Formed – 4 August 1981
    • Aircraft Flown:
  • Relief Landing Field – Mount Pleasant
  • Relief Landing Field – Wellington

Aircraft Flown: 

  • 1 GRS
    • Avro Anson
  • CANS
    • Avro Anson
  • 1 ANS
    • Avro Lancaster
  • 2 (M) OTU
    • Avro Lancaster
    • Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune
    • Canadair CP-107 Argus
  • MPEU
    • Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune
    • Canadair CP-107 Argus
  • 880 MR Sqn
    • CP-121 Tracker
RCAF Aerodrome Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
Image from the RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases circa 1942.

Commanding Officers:

Financial Impact:

Date / Reason for Closure:

  • 1 GRS – 3 Feb 45, reduced need for aircrew
  • CANS B late 45
  • 1 ANS B Oct 53
  • 2 (M) OTU – 1968
  • MPEU – 8 Aug 78, moved to Greenwood
  • 880 MR – 1990/91, end of Tracker ops

Current Status:  civil airfield CYSU

Commemoration

Slemon Park Memorials, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (Photo Courtesy of Peter Pasieka)
Roundel Garden and Argus, Slemon Park Memorials, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (Photo Courtesy of Peter Pasieka)
Tracker, Slemon Park Memorials, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (Photo Courtesy of Peter Pasieka)
Tracker, Slemon Park Memorials, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (Photo Courtesy of Peter Pasieka)
Plaque, Slemon Park Memorials, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (Photo Courtesy of Peter Pasieka)
Plaque, Slemon Park Memorials, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (Photo Courtesy of Peter Pasieka)
Plaque, Slemon Park Memorials, Summerside, Prince Edward Island (Photo Courtesy of Peter Pasieka)

Site Plan – 1959

Site Plan, Summerside, Prince Edward Island
(1959) (Source 1 Canadian Air Division)
To access a high resolution PDF please click on Image.

Location – Google Map

Photo Gallery

Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Oblique, (National Defense Image 415-064)

Station Magazine
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Daily Diary – Links – No. 9 Service Flying Training School

1941

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

1942

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

Effective 6 July 1942 the school was relocated to Centralia, Ontario. Please refer to Centralia for the remaining Daily Diary index for No 9 Service Flying Training School.

Daily Diary – Links – No.

1944

Fatalities

This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 9 Service Flying Training School, No. 1 General Surveillance School, and other sources.  The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Summerside, and likely includes some errors. Currently this list contains 37 personnel.

20 March 1941

26 April 1941

1 June 1941

20 July 1941

22 July 1941

6 August 1941

11 September 1941

16 September 1941

18 November 1941

12 December 1941

12 January 1942

11 June 1942

7 August 1942

11 August 1942

29 October 1942

5 January 1943

15 October 1943

7 August 1944

14 May 1951

25 April 1952

11 August 1952

9 October 1953

Notable Alumni

Aircraft List

Notes

Course List
No 9 Service Flying Training School

Click to Access the Course List

For More information – External Links

For More information – Published References

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