Dunnville Airport

Dunnville Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: none – TC LID: CDU9
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	No. 6 RCAF Dunnville Museum 1999 Inc.
Location	Dunnville, Ontario
Time zone	EST (UTC−05:00)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL	600 ft / 183 m
Coordinates	42°52′20″N 079°35′45″W / 42.87222°N 79.59583°WCoordinates: 42°52′20″N 079°35′45″W / 42.87222°N 79.59583°W
Map
CDU9 Location in Ontario
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 05/23 2,400 732 Asphalt 09/27 3,500 1,067 Asphalt
Source: Canada Flight Supplement[1]

Dunnville Airport, (TC LID: CDU9), was a registered aerodrome located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) south of Dunnville, Ontario, Canada. It was built during World War II as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and was home to Royal Canadian Air Force No.6 Service Flying Training School. No. 6 SFTS opened on 25 November 1940 and closed on 1 December 1944. There is a museum at the airport commemorating the training school.^[2][3]

In 2003 the airport was designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Site by the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.

On 30 May 2013, all flight operations ceased at the airport to make way for industrial wind turbines.

The former airport is privately owned, but the public is welcome at the museum. Located within the village of Port Maitland, it sits on 400+ acres of land. There are five airplane hangars and several buildings dating from the 1940s on the site. There are two public mini-storage buildings, one being large enough to store R.V.s and other large vehicles indoors. The past few seasons of Canada's Worst Driver was filmed here.

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  Hangar 1 - the museum

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  National historic civil engineering site plaque

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  BCATP plaque

Former tenants

• Maylan Aviation
• Niagara Skydiving Centre

References

1. Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 15 September 2016 to 0901Z 10 November 2016
2. Hatch, F. J. (1983). The Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1939-1945. Ottawa: Directorate of History, Department of National Defence. ISBN 0660114437.
3. No.6 RCAF Dunnville Museum website

External links

• Page about this airport on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory