Airplanes Of The BCATP

 Starting where we left off yesterday, mounted above is a Fairchild Cornell, another staple plane of the British Commonwealth Air Training Program during the Second World War.

Here we see the Menasco Moth, another training aircraft.

And this is the North American Harvard, an elegant training plane.

Mementos of the program.

BCATP was a huge infrastructure project- not just the building of air fields and training schools, but the roads and infrastructure to get to them, as they tended to be in rural areas. It was the biggest infrastructure project in the country to that date, and critical for the Canadian home front.

One more look at these iconic planes of the Second World War.

Back into some bush planes. This first one, a Junkers W34, dates between the wars.