Canadian Forces Detachment Mountain View, also CFD Mountain View, is a

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airfield An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for publ ...

( Trenton/Mountain View Airport) located in

Prince Edward County, Ontario Prince Edward County (PEC) is a municipality in southern Ontario, Canada. Its coastline on Lake Ontario’s northeastern shore is known for Sandbanks Provincial Park, sand beaches, and limestone cliffs. The Regent Theatre, a restored Edwardian ...

, south of Belleville. It is geographically close to

CFB Trenton Canadian Forces Base Trenton (also CFB Trenton), formerly RCAF Station Trenton, is a Canadian Forces base located within the city of Quinte West, Ontario. It is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is the hub ...

, which has administrative responsibility for the facilities.

History

World War II

The Mountain View aerodrome opened 23 June 1941 to host No. 6 Bombing and Gunnery School (6 B&GS), one of eleven bombing and gunnery schools that opened across Canada under the

British Commonwealth Air Training Plan The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), or Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) often referred to as simply "The Plan", was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New ...

during the

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. Aircraft used included the Anson,

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, Bolingbroke, and

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. The station was later designated RCAF Station Mountain View when No. 6 B&GS was renamed the Ground Instruction School and merged with the Air Armament School at RCAF Station Trenton.

Aerodrome information

In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed as RCAF Aerodrome - Mountain View, Ontario at with a variation of 12 degrees west and elevation of . Three serviceable runways were listed as follows:

Postwar

The RCAF fire fighting school moved to Mountain View from Trenton in 1946, but later moved to

RCAF Station Aylmer RCAF Station Aylmer was a Royal Canadian Air Force airfield that was built between late 1940 and June 1941 northeast of Aylmer, Ontario.Hatch, F. J. (1983).''The Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1939-1 ...

. Also in 1946, RCAF Station Mountain View became a detachment of RCAF Station Trenton. CFD Mountain View includes two recognized Federal Heritage building 1986 on the Register of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings. * Building 77 / Hangar 1 recognized - 2003 * Building 82 / Hangar 6 recognized - 2003

Operations

The main use of CFB Trenton Mountain View Detachment is the storage and overhaul of older aircraft. This facility belongs to the Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron (ATESS) based at Trenton. In September 2000, 8 Wing Trenton opened the Canadian Parachute Centre's (now the

Canadian Army Advanced Warfare Centre The Canadian Army Advanced Warfare Centre (CAAWC, french: links=no, Centre d'instruction supérieure de l'Armée canadienne), formerly Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare Centre (CFLAWC), Canadian Parachute Centre (CPC), and Canadian Airborne Cen ...

) drop zone at Mountain View. The Mountain View facility is also used by Central Region Gliding School (CRGS) for

Royal Canadian Air Cadets The Royal Canadian Air Cadets (french: Cadets de l'Aviation royale du Canada) is a Canadian national youth program for young individuals aged 12 to 18. Under the authority of the National Defence Act, the program is administered by the Canadian F ...

glider training. A new 4800' gravel runway (06L/24R) was constructed in 2006 to train

CC-130 Hercules The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally design ...

aircraft crew in landing on unprepared landing strips. A

CC-177 Globemaster III The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft that was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two ...

demonstrated similar capabilities in 2009."Globemaster III demonstrates STOL capability at Mountain View"
By Tom Philp, 5 June 2009

References

External links

Bruce Forsyth's Canadian Military History Page
Retrieved 2010-10-05
Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron
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