What is the History of “Canadas Aviation Training Experience?
• Dates back to 1917 when the United Kingdom and the United States began training pilots and observers in Canada. • 1940 to 1945, over 130,000 Commonwealth and allied aircrew were trained in Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. • 1950 to 1959 Canada hosted the NATO Air Training Plan. • During that period, Canada trained about 4,000 pilots and navigators from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom. • In the late fifties, the NATO Air Training Plan evolved into four bilateral training agreements. The longest of these bilateral training agreements ended in 1983, when the last Dutch students graduated from pilot training. • Since 1964 Canada has operated a Military Assistance Training Plan that provides subsidized military training to developing nations. • Canada has provided multi-engine pilot training for the Royal Air Force and the German Air Force, rotary wing pilot training for the German Navy and
