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When the plan was terminated it had turned out a total of 131,553 graduates in eight (8) different aircrew categories for the Air Forces of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Apart from the training scheme, Canada had also placed her facilities as a training base at the disposal of the Royal Air Force. Several RAF Flying Training Schools were transferred to Canada from which tens of thousands of British airmen ultimately passed through and were counted in the total amount that had graduated from the BCATP. There were also would-be pilots from outside the Commonwealth Empire that would train in Canada and join the Canadian or British Air Forces.

A visitor to the flying schools would find many a citizen of the United States; of more than seventy pilots at one establishment, fifty-five were from below the southern boundary. At another school there were, at one time, so many Californians that the Royal Canadian Air Force was locally dubbed the Royal Californian Air Force. The American government went even one better than its individual adventurers when, not long after the scheme was inaugurated it approved plans for the training of three thousand Empire airmen in the United States by the scheme's own instructors.

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