Penhold Aircraft Marking

[Dan Martel]

Originally Posted by Dennis Cardy

Does anyone recognize this marking on Harvard 2815..? Based at Penhold back in the day. A bit of a mystery. There is some speculation it had something to do those Army types who throw themselves out of perfectly good aeroplanes.. Thanks.

I located the original source of the photo. It's from a website opened by a British pilot who was trained in Canada. He spent 1957 at 4 FTS in Penhold, after Centralia and before MacDonald. Anyways, he copied his graduation program from Penhold on the website. It can be found here. It shows that the flying part of the school was called 1 Squadron, and divided into two flights, A and B.

The badge on the Harvard consists of a figure 1 with an A inside. I'm speculating that it's for A Flight of 1 Squadron ofn the School. That's my best guess.

Cheers,
Dan.

[Dennis Cardy]

Dan Martel. Thanks.