An Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) in Windsor Mills, gave a recruit 50 hours of basic aviation instruction on a simple trainer like the Tiger Moth or Fleet Finch. Pilots who showed promise went on to advanced training at a Service Flying Training School. Others went on to different specialities, such as wireless, navigation or bombing and gunnery.
William was one of the twenty new trainees who joined the EFTS on July 5, 1942.
July 1942
5st
TOS #4 EFTS Windsor Mills, Quebec
September 1942
12th
SOS #4 EFTS Windsor Mills, Quebec
The Fleet Finch (Fleet Model 16) is a two-seat, tandem training biplane produced by Fleet Aircraft of Fort Erie, Ontario. There were a number of variants mainly based on engine variations. Over several years beginning in 1939, a total of 447 Finches were built, nearly all (431) of them for use as elementary trainers in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) during the Second World War.
And again after 9 weeks William went to SFTS in Moncton for training his pilot skills.
Windsor Mills
Daily diary during the stay of William Uyen in Windsor-Mill
a documentary about no.4 EFTS Windsor Mills
William Uyen
November 18, 1943 HisStory during the Air-battle of Berlin March 31, 1944
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