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John Weigkus-Boston
Phill Currier - Maine
C.F.I. Douglas
Gus Rabe-Yonkers, NY
Irvin Gagne - Maine
Curtis-Reid Flying Ser.
Montreal.
Aircraft: Fleet Finch

Curtis-Reid Flying Service was a civilian organization contracted to the
RCAF for the basic training of pilots and instructors with prior piloting
experience strangely under the status of enlisted civilian. The school
was located at Cartierville near Montreal and the course lasted about
one month before the advanced course at Trenton Ontario. The aircraft
types were the Fleet, Reed Rambler and Tiger Moth.
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Ford Hotel Montreal
Excerpted Letter
5/29/41

Dear Gals,

The CCA trip was swell, the hangover not so swell. Tomorrow I go through the formalities of enlistment. Received rather a warm welcome from old acquaintances F/O (Flying Officer) McCrea, Monsieur Douglas, Chief Flying Instructor of Instructors.It looks like an Instructors job for me. I spent last night at the Picadilly Club of "The Mount Royal" with Wentworth, Douglas, and a few North Atlantic Ferry Pilots.
 GUS