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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Part of the Second World War
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States
RCAF Harvard
Site history
In use1939–45
de Havilland DH.82C Tiger Moth in British Commonwealth Air Training Plan "trainer yellow" at the Western Canada Aviation Museum (note the skis, and the enclosed cockpit common to Canadian-built Tiger Moths)

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), often referred to as simply "The Plan", was a large-scale multinational military aircrew training programme created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the Second World War.[1] The BCATP remains one of the single largest aviation training programs in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the war.[2]

Trainees from many other countries attended schools under the Plan, including Argentina, Belgium, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Fiji, Free France, Greece, the Netherlands, Newfoundland, Norway, Poland,[3] and the United States.[4]

  1. ^ Hayter, Steven. "History of the Creation of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan." Archived 29 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine British Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Retrieved: 18 October 2010.
  2. ^ Dunmore 1994, pp. 45, 345.
  3. ^ "British Commonwealth Air Training Plan". Juno Beach Centre. 31 March 2014.
  4. ^ Barris 2005, p. 316.

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