What is the “History of 15 Wing Moose Jaw?
• Built in 1940. • Officially opened 1 January 1941. • Wartime site of #32 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. • 32SFTS trained pilots from Canada, Britain, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, the U.S., and Holland. • Pilots were trained on Harvard aircraft, and later, on Oxfords, Ansons and various other aircraft. • School disbanded on October 17th, 1944 and the base closed. July 1952, the airfield resumed military operations, as Station Moose Jaw. • June 22nd, 1953 2 Flying Training School was transferred from the Royal Canadian Air Force Station in Gimli, Manitoba. • Initially, all training in Moose Jaw was conducted on Harvards. 1962 it was decided to replace the piston engine Harvard with the Tutor jet. • Between 1962 and 1964 the standard pattern triangle configured runways were changed to dual parallel runways. • 3 March 1964, the first Tutor arrived in Moose Jaw. • September 1964, 41 T-33s arrived from Portage l
