Flight Instructor - Lancasters - Alberta, Canada

Dear Dave,

Are you sure he flew Lancasters in Canada? During WWII, all Lancaster production from Ontario went to the UK. In Canada, one Lancaster was stationed with the Winter Experimental Test Flight at Gimli, Manitoba early 1944. In late 1944 this unit transfered to Kapuskasing, Ontario, and in early 1945 to Edmonton, Alberta, where it became known as the WEE flight.

In late 1945 and 1946, the RCAF flew many Lancaster aircraft to various bases in Alberta for storage and eventual disposal. There were no operational Lancaster training units in Alberta during the war; only those with single- and twin-engine aircraft that supported the Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

Norman Malayney