List of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facilities in Canada

This article contains a List of Facilities of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), a major program for training Allied air crews during World War II, operated schools and facilities in all nine Canadian provinces (Newfoundland and Labrador was not yet part of Canada).

Training aircraft

For many facilities, the type of training aircraft used appears in parentheses. The BCATP used the following types of aircraft for training:

• Airspeed Oxford
• Avro Anson
• Boeing Stearman
• Bristol Bolingbroke
• Cessna Crane
• De Havilland Tiger Moth
• Fairchild Cornell
• Fairey Battle
• Fairey Swordfish
• Fleet Finch
• Fleet Fort
• Noorduyn Norseman
• North American Harvard
• North American Yale
• Stinson 105
• Westland Lysander
• Northrop Nomad

Facilities

Training Command Headquarters

The BCATP operated four major commands:

1. Toronto, Ontario, with responsibility for all Ontario facilities except those in the far southeastern and northwestern ends of the province.

2. Winnipeg, Manitoba, with responsibility for facilities in northwestern Ontario, Manitoba, and part of Saskatchewan.

3. Montreal, Quebec, with responsibility for facilities in far southeastern Ontario, Quebec, and the......
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