Avro 504K - North American Users

Now's the turn for the North American users of this excellent British trainer.

• Canada: The Avro 504K was the very first training airplane ever flown by the Canadian Air Force. It served initially with the Royal Flying Corps Canada, then with the newly created Canadian Air Force and finally with the Royal Canadian Air Force and was locally built in Toronto by the Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. They were all converted to 504N model on 29th June 1927.
• Mexico: Mexico adquired some of them to equip their trainer squadrons, where they served from 1919 until 1923 when they replaced by the Avro Anahuac, a locally built version by the Talleres Nacionales de Construcción Aeronáutica - TNCA (National Aeronautical Manufacture Workshops) which was also known as the Avro 504k Mk.II.
• United States: It served to train the American volunteers first and the official USAAC pilots later. They served in the American Expeditionary Force training site located at the French town of Issoudun and in July 1918 fifty-two of them were adquired by the American commanders. After the war some were shipped to the USA where they served as trainers. Unfortunately they crashed shortly after due to the inexperience of American pilots with rotary engines.

Sources:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_504

2.  http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/46/Old-Gold--the-Golden-Centennaires-of-1967.aspx

3. http://www.gob.mx/sedena/documentos/material-aereo-historico-de-la-f-a-m (translated)

4. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/MuseumExhibits/FactSheets/Display/tabid/509/Article/197405/avro-504k.aspx