The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, often referred to as simply "The Plan", was a large-scale multinational military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia a
RCAF Harvard
A de Havilland DH.82C Tiger Moth in British Commonwealth Air Training Plan "trainer yellow" at the Western Canada Aviation Museum (the skis and the enclosed cockpit were common to Canadian-built Tiger Moths)
RCAF Harvards were used as a trainer aircraft by thousands of Commonwealth aviators from 1940 onwards. Harvard II from the BCATP Museum in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
RCAF Cessna Crane as employed in the BCATP on display at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
De Havilland Tiger Moth
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The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth is a 1930s British biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland and built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was operated by the Royal Air Force and other operator
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
…American and British aircraft designs were used. Pilots might have done their initial flight training on the Canadian-produced examples of the British Tiger Moth, the American Boeing Stearman, or the Canadian designed and built Fleet Finch biplane. At the plan's peak of activity in late 1943, the BCATP comprised…
A Tiger Moth in 1989
Royal New Zealand Air Force Tiger Moth aircraft with blind flying hoods for instrument training, early in the war
Canadian DH.82C Tiger Moth showing characteristic canopy
Winston Churchill, David Margesson, and others waiting to watch the launch of a DH.82 Queen Bee target drone, 6 June 1941