Royal Flying Corps Canada

After much negotiation with the Canadian government, the RFC, commanded in Canada by Lieutenant-Colonel (later Brigadier-General) Cuthbert Hoare, began operating several training stations in southern Ontario.

The JN-4 (Canadian) (Canuck) was used for training; 500 Avro 504Ks had been ordered but only one had been completed in Canada before the war ended in November 1918 and it was not used.

General Hoare made several agreements[2] with U.S. Brigadier-General George O. Squier (US Army Signal Corps) and the US Aircraft Production Board.

The RFCC would also train many US Army flight personnel: 400 pilots; 2,000 ground-crew members; and 20 equipment officers.

[3] During the last two years of the war 3,135 pilots and 137 observers trained in Canada and Texas for both the RFC and the new Royal Air Force (RAF).

Lecture on rigging at the University of Toronto 's School of Aviation, RFC Canada
RFC Canada Curtiss JN-4 (Can) in 1917
American writer William Faulkner in Toronto while a cadet at the School of Military Aeronautics at the University of Toronto. In July 1918, Faulkner enlisted with the Royal Air Force in Canada. [ 1 ]