Fort Erie cadet earns his wings, first for his squadron in six years
August 21, 2026 at 5:19 AM
A Fort Erie teenager spent six weeks of his summer learning to fly a glider in Quebec, and came home with a set of pilot’s wings.
Flight Sgt. Logan Waite-Fenton, 17, received the wings August 15 at the graduation parade of the Saint-Jean Cadet Training Centre, located southeast of Montreal. He trained at the airfields in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Bromont, Que., where he completed 49 training flights. Twenty of them he flew alone.
He is the first cadet from 337 “Allan Troup” Squadron in Fort Erie to win a glider scholarship in six years, according to Capt. Harold K. Sully, the squadron’s commanding officer.
Cadet Logan Waite-Fenton, left, receiving his wings on the Saint-Jean Cadet Training Centre’s graduation parade, given by Capt. Marc-Antoine Nadeau. Credit: Saint-Jean Cadet Training CentreThe scholarship is one of the harder seats to win in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. Cadets first take the National Ground School Program, taught online across the country. They then write an entrance exam and sit before a provincial interview board.
“Competition is fierce,” Sully wrote in an email to Fort Erie Radio. Successful applicants usually score in the high 80s.
Waite-Fenton joined 337 Squadron in 2021, when cadet training was still being delivered online during the pandemic. He has gone to summer training every year since, finishing the drill and ceremonial instructor course in 2024 and the advanced aviation course in 2025.
He has played in the squadron band for three years. He commanded the squadron drill team when 337 returned to competition for the first time since 2019, and he runs with a squadron team that has spent two years raising money for Leave the Streets Behind, a Royal Canadian Legion program for homeless veterans.
Waite-Fenton getting dunked after his first solo flight in St. Jean with his instructor Eden Thomas. Credit: Captain Harold K. SullyEarlier this year, Waite-Fenton received the Lord Strathcona Trust Medal, the highest award a cadet can be given for leadership, physical fitness and dedication.
Sully described him as a straight-A student who wrestles and plays other sports through the school year.
The course also required more than 15 hours of classroom instruction before the flying began.
Waite-Fenton returns to Lakeshore high school for Grade 12 in September.
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