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Commanding Officers | Photos & Maps | Sources
This facility south of Dauphin, in the Rural Municipality of Dauphin, was used for training of pilots during the Commonwealth Air Training Plan of the Second World War. Buildings at this $1 million dollar site were erected by P. W. Graham & Sons of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan at a cost of $337,214, with plumbing tendered to F. W. Bumstead of Dauphin for $50,000. The school first opened to airmen on 5 March 1941, with an official ceremony later taking place on 15 April 1941.
The base had two relief fields, located northwest of Dauphin, where pilots unable to land here could go.
In August 2022, a granite monument was unveiled at the Lt. Col. W. G. Billy Barker Airport to commemorate the forty-nine Commonwealth Air Training Plan airmen who died while training at No. 10 Service Flying Training School and No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School during the Second World War.
A hangar at the site sustained structural failures and it was deconstructed in late 2023 and 2024.
Period
Commanding Officer
1941
Wing Commander A. H. Wilson
1941-?
Squadron Leader Ernest Hutchison Glenn Moncrieff (1909-2000)
?-1942
?
1942-1944
Group Captain John C. Huggard
1944-1945
Group Captain A. B. Searle
Map of the No. 10 Service Flying Training School (1940s)
Source: Neil Christoffersen
Former Commonwealth Air Training Plan hangar at Dauphin Municipal Airport, later used for storage and deconstructed in 2023 (May 2014)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Stop butt used in riflery training at the former Commonwealth Air Training Plan facility (September 2015)
Source: Alan MasonSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.10332, W100.05493
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: W. G. Barker Plaque (RM of Dauphin)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rorketon United Church (Rorke Street, Rorketon, Lakeshore)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 1 Air Navigation School (Wheatland, Municipality of Riverdale)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 1 Air Navigation School Monument (Municipality of Riverdale)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 5 Air Observers School (Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School (Macdonald, RM of Portage la Prairie)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School (Paulson, RM of Dauphin)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 14 Elementary Flying Training School / No. 7 Air Observers School / Southport Aerospace Centre (Southport, RM of Portage la Prairie)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 19 Elementary Flying Training School (RM of Wallace-Woodworth)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 26 Elementary Flying Training School (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 26 Elementary Flying Training School, Eden Relief Field / Eden Airport (RM of Rosedale)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 10 Service Flying Training School / Barker Airport (RM of Dauphin)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 10 Service Flying Training School, North Junction Relief Field (RM of Dauphin)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 10 Service Flying Training School, Valley River Relief Field (RM of Dauphin)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 12 Service Flying Training School / Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum (Brandon)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 12 Service Flying Training School, Chater Relief Field / Chater Aerodrome (RM of Elton)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 12 Service Flying Training School, Douglas Relief Field (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 17 Service Flying Training School (Municipality of Souris-Glenwood)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 17 Service Flying Training School, Hartney Relief Field / Hartney Aerodrome (Municipality of Grassland)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 18 Service Flying Training School / No. 2 Flying Training School / Canadian Forces Base Gimli / Gimli Industrial Park Airport (Municipality of Gimli)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 18 Service Flying Training School, Netley Relief Field / Netley Field (RM of St. Andrews)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 33 Service Flying Training School (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 33 Service Flying Training School, Oberon Relief Field / Oberon Aerodrome (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 33 Service Flying Training School, Petrel Relief Field / Petrel Aerodrome (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 3 Wireless School (500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brandon Winter Fair Building / Brandon Arena / No. 2 Manning Depot (Eleventh Street, Brandon)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 5 Release Centre / Jameswood Place South (Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 8 Repair Depot / Jameswood Place (Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 2 Equipment Depot / No. 7 Equipment Depot / Carpiquet Barracks (Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: First Flight Monument (Memorial Park, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Cardale Air Crash Monument (RM of Oakview)
“Contract let for Dauphin Flying School,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 August 1940, page 1.
“Dauphin Air School under construction,” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 October 1940, page 6.
“Two big Air Schools to be opened Monday,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 February 1941, page 11.
“Dauphin’s honor,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 February 1941, page 3.
“Dauphin Flying School prepares for opening,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 February 1941, page 2.
“Moncrieff gets Dauphin post,” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 February 1941, page 12.
“Flying School ready at Dauphin,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 March 1941 page 16.
“Students arrive at new Dauphin R.C.A.F. School,” Winnipeg Tribune, 5 March 1941, page 11.
“Dauphin Air School plans aerobatics,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 April 1941, page 4.
“Huggard named to head school,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 March 1942, page 3.
“Receive Wings at Dauphin,” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 March 1942, page 19.
[Photo caption, ”Buy Victory Bonds”], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 October 1943, page 7.
“New Commander takes over No. 10 S.F.T.S.” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 September 1944, page 7.
“Seven Air Stations in Manitoba to hold final wings parades,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 March 1945, page 3.
“Memorials commemorating Dauphin's World War II contributions unveiled in Manitoba,” CBC News, 28 August 2022.
We thank Neil Christoffersen, Darryl Toews, and Troy Angus for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 13 November 2023
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