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{{Infobox airport
| name = Dunnville Airport
| image = RCAF Dunnville Memorial.jpg
| IATA=
| ICAO =
| TC = <s>CDU9</s>
| type = Closed
| owner = 1736032 Ontario Inc.
| operator = 1736032 Ontario Inc.
| city-served =
| location = [[Dunnville, Ontario]]
| timezone = [[Eastern Time Zone|EST]]
| utc = [[UTC−05:00]]
| summer = EDT
| utcs = [[UTC−04:00]]
| elevation-f = 600
| coordinates = {{coord|42|52|20|N|079|35|45|W|region:CA-ON|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_map = Canada Ontario#Canada
| pushpin_label = CDU9
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ontario
| website =
| r1-number = <s>05/23</s>
| r1-length-f =<s> 2,400</s>
| r1-length-m = <s>732</s>
| r1-surface = <s>Asphalt</s>
| r2-number = <s>09/27</s>
| r2-length-f = <s>3,500</s>
| r2-length-m = <s>1,067</s>
| r2-surface = <s>Asphalt</s>
| footnotes = Source: [[Canada Flight Supplement]]<ref name="CFS">{{CFS}}</ref>
}}

'''Dunnville Airport''' <s>{{Airport codes||||CDU9}}</s> was a registered [[aerodrome]] located {{convert|2|NM|lk=in}} south of [[Dunnville, Ontario|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 [[List of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan facilities in Canada#Service Flying Training Schools|Service Flying Training School]], which opened on 25 November 1940 and closed on 1 December 1944. The [https://www.rcafmuseum.org/site/home No. 6 Dunnville Museum] is located in Hangar 1 at the airport and commemorates the [[RCAF Station Dunnville|RCAF]] pilot training school.<ref name="hatch">{{cite book
| last1 = Hatch
| first1 = F. J.
| title = The Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1939-1945
| publisher = Directorate of History, Department of National Defence
| year = 1983
| location = Ottawa
| isbn = 0660114437}}
</ref><ref>[http://www.rcafmuseum.org/site/home No.6 RCAF Dunnville Museum website]</ref>

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, Ontario|Port Maitland]], it sits on over {{convert|400|acres}} of land. There are five aircraft hangars and several buildings dating from the 1940s on the site. There are two public mini-storage buildings, one being large enough to store [[recreational vehicle]]s and other large vehicles indoors. The popular television show [[Canada's Worst Driver]] was filmed on the airport grounds from its sixth season onwards.

<gallery>
File:RCAF Dunnville Hangar 1.jpg| Hangar 1 - the museum
File:Dunnville Airport Civil Engineering Award.jpg| National historic civil engineering site plaque
File:Dunnville BCATP Plaque.jpg|BCATP plaque
</gallery>

== Former tenants==

* Maylan Aviation
* Niagara Skydiving Centre

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://archive.copanational.org/PlacesToFly/airport_view.php?pr_id=1&ap_id=24 Page about this airport] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528191404/http://archive.copanational.org/PlacesToFly/airport_view.php?pr_id=1&ap_id=24 |date=2012-05-28 }} on [[Canadian Owners and Pilots Association|COPA's]] ''Places to Fly'' airport directory

{{List of airports in Canada}}

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[[Category:Former Canadian Forces bases in Canada]]
[[Category:Defunct airports in Ontario]]
[[Category:Airports of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan]]
[[Category:1940 establishments in Ontario]]
[[Category:2013 disestablishments in Ontario]]

Dunnville Airport - Revision history

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