Our museum is staffed mainly by volunteers and funding is mainly through donations and admissions.  This is the only museum, in the world, dedicated solely to those who trained under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. It is a unique memorial to the many thousands who fought, and of course, who gave their lives in the air war from 1939 to 1945.  At the time the Plan was signed in December 1939,  Canada had only 4,000 people in the Royal Canadian Air Force but enrollment reached 250,000 by the end of 1943.

Aircrew personnel from Australia, New Zealand, England and Canada were all trained under The Plan.  Canada was chosen as the training country because of its preferable climate and the fact it was far from the dangers of enemy activity.  The Plan was referred to by Winston Churchill as Canada’s greatest contribution to the allied victory and referred to by President Roosevelt as the “aerodrome of democracy.”