Dunnville Airport

Dunnville Airport (Template:Comma separated entries) was a registered aerodrome located Template:Convert 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, which opened on 25 November 1940 and closed on 1 December 1944. The No. 6 Dunnville Museum is located in Hangar 1 at the airport and commemorates the RCAF pilot training school.

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 over Template:Convert 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 vehicles and other large vehicles indoors. The popular television show Canada's Worst Driver was filmed on the airport grounds from its sixth season onwards.

• Hangar 1 - the museum
  Hangar 1 - the museum
• National historic civil engineering site plaque
  National historic civil engineering site plaque
• BCATP plaque
  BCATP plaque

Former tenants

• Maylan Aviation
• Niagara Skydiving Centre

External links

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