ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 204736
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| Date: | Friday 1 February 1952 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  North American NA-66 Harvard |
| Owner/operator: | 2 FTS RCAF |
| Registration: | 2801 |
| MSN: | 66-2534 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Poplar Point, Manitoba -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RCAF Gimli, Manitoba |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
North American NA-66 Harvard RCAF 2801: Taken on strength 22 January 1941. Category C damage on 26 August 1941 while with No. 32 Service Flying Training School at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Also served with No. 33 SFTS at Barberry, Manitoba and no. 34 SFTS at Medicine Hat, Alberta. Then to 2 FTS, Gimli, Manitoba.
Written off (destroyed) 1/2/1952: Crashed and burned near Poplar point, Manitoba. Student pilot (38197) Flight Cadet Howard Keith Geil was killed. Aircraft Struck off, reduced to spares on 13 February 1952.
Howard Geil was born April 29, 1929 at Winnipeg, Manitoba and graduated from Chilliwack High School in 1947. After High School he attended the University of Washington where he was taking pre-medical and psychiatry before he enlisted in the R.C.A.F. November 14, 1951 in Vancouver, B.C. Flight Cadet Geil was killed at Poplar Point, Manitoba while conducting a solo navigation flight. At the time of the death he was also survived by his brother Norman and two sisters, Bernice and Verna. He was the father of Cheryl Geil. Buried at Chilliwack (Royal Canadian Legion) Cemetery
Sources:
1. The Leader-Post 2 February 1952, p5/29 March 1952, p9
2. https://canadianfallen.ca/115792/GEIL
3. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/80002114
4. https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/post-war-data/post-war-training-casualties-rcafcf/
5. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_2800_2849_detailed.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Jan-2018 10:23 | TB | Added |
| 09-Mar-2021 21:41 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Mar-2021 21:41 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 10-Mar-2021 10:12 | TB | Updated [Operator, Nature, Narrative, Operator] |
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