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The Canadian Royal Air Force is a formal story since 1920, although it has much deeper roots. February 23, 1909, Alexander Bell took the first flight in Canada. He was on air on an airplane built joint efforts by American and Canadian engineers. The goal of the set was to attract Canada's attention and get orders on their planes. The Ministry was interested in the news and offered a demonstration field at the Petavv camp. It started on August 2, 1909, and it lasted a few days. But their results were unsuccessful: Silver Start crashed on a flight, and Baddeck No.1 got severe injuries during the landing. After that, the Canadian military failed to turn away from aviation, and did not show her interest until the beginning of World War I.

World War I

The war began on August 1st, 1914, as a British Dominon, Canada stepped on the side of the Allies and on August 4 declared war on Germany. Unlike Canada's European powers didn't have their own military forces, so the Defense Secretary decided to create a small air unit in the warehouse. The unit was officially created on September 16th, 1914th, and it got a name, but at the moment, it only had two officers in it, one mechanic and no plane. And on October 1, the airline got the first plane -- but because of the humidity of the English climate, where the SAS was placed, it was removed from fighting events. In the end, the hull couldn't become a full combat unit and was formed on May 7, 1915.

Although trying to form a Canadian aviation unit failed, you were at least over 200 Canadian volunteers in the years of war through the service of British aviation. Among them are known asas the ones that hit 33 enemy planes, Billy Bishop, and Arthur Roy Brown (10 losses). In 1917, in Canada's territory, there was a training base that was being done as a governing and training pilots for British aviation. Two years later, she prepared 3135 pilots and 137 air viewers, 2624 of them involved in military action in Europe.

In 1915, the British commander offered Canada to create a separate Canadian aviation unit in the Royal Air Force, but until the spring of 1918, the government of the country ignored that offer. And only on September 5, 1918, after the ongoing negotiations, the Canadians agreed to do this. He got the name of the Canadian Air Force and had two squadrons: the fighter and the bombing. The CF Commander was commissioned by Colonel Billy Bishop, the famous British ace of Canadian origin, who for his merit was identified by the highest award for Great Britain, the Cross of Victoria. First of all, the squadrons were able to form only November 20th, nine days after the war was over. Canada's more than a year