531 Squadron

On February 3rd, 1951, an application to form an air cadet squadron named "City of Trail" was submitted, on 02 March 1951, 531 Squadron was formed

Parade Locations

Initially, 531 paraded at the old Trail Armoury, the Arena and Legion. When the armoury closed in the early 1960's, the squadron moved to Central School in West Trail

In 2000, Central School was sold by the School Board, and the Squadron moved to it's current home at the Kemball (Trail) Armoury in Shavers Bench

Commanding Officers

Squadron Leader Ian Summerville - 1951

Flight Lieutenant H W Ross - 1959

Flight Lieutenant L W Halliday - 1966

Captain I Mackie - Nov 8 1968

Captain J Ratcliff - 1970

Captain L W Halliday - 1970 - March 1971

Captain S U Raun -March 1971

Captain Trevor Smith

Captain Mike Lesuik

Captain Don Nickoletti

Major Terry Halliwell

Captain Don Watt - 1985

Captain Marika Szabo - 1993

Lieutenant Llora Brown - 2006

Major Marika Szabo

Lieutenant Tricia Irving

Captain Derwin Costinak

Captain Peter Grace

Captain James Hossack

Captain Kelly Hoglund

Captain Colin Gurnet

Major Kevin DeBiasio - Nov 2024

Flying Scholarships

John Northey - 1953

Dick Booth - 1954

Dan Ryan - 1954

Bill Jabonski

Bruce Gerrand - 1961

Michael Blench - 1963

Rick Ward - 1964

Ed Banes - 1964

R G Riley - 1965

Al Kassian - 1971

Tom Johnson - 1974

Craig Halliwell

Richard Horney

Peter Buckley - Glider 1978 - Power 1979

Judy Martin - Glider 1978 - Power 1979

David Buckley - Glider 1980 - Power 1981

Kevin DeBiasio - Glider 1980 - Power 1981

Andrew Merecek

Guy Madrigga

Derek Campbell - Glider 1987 - Power 1988

Duane Hendricks - Glider 1987 - Power 1988

Mike Delorie - Glider 1999 - Power 2000

Andrew Masuch

Hawk Regnault

Alex Farnsworth

Awards

Top BC Squadron - 1960 and 1961

Top BC Rural Squadron - 1997