Edenvale Airport is located west of Edenvale,

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History

RCAF and World War II Airfield 1940-1946

From 1940 to 1945 it was known as RCAF Detachment Edenvale (No. 1 Relief Landing Field) as an emergency relief field supporting

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and used by the

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's No. 1 Service Flying Training School. After 1946 the RCAF buildings at Edenvale were demolished and the site abandoned.

Aerodrome information

In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed as RCAF Aerodrome - Edenvale, Ontario at with a variation of 8 degrees west and elevation of . Three runways were listed as follows:

Civilian use 1950–1959

In 1950 the airport became a civilian aerodrome, but for almost a decade it was mostly used for race car events and was referred to as Stayner or Edenvale Raceway. It was abandoned again in 1959.

Canadian Army 1962–1988

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took over the site in 1962 and referred to it as ''Edenvale Transmitter Station Bunker'', a remote radio communications station to support the Cold War effort (see Emergency Government Headquarters). The military closed the station in 1988, left by 1994 and the bunker was sealed off.Military Bruce
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Civilian use 2002–present

Since 2002, the airfield has operated as a private civilian aerodrome. At the northeast end of the airfield is an ex-

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MiG-15bisSB on static display. In November 2018 it was announced that the

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, which was forced out of

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in Toronto, will reopen at Edenvale Airport in 2019 and be renamed the Canadian Air & Space Conservancy.

References

External links

Edenvale Aerodrome

Edenvale Flyers RC Aircraft club

Page about this airport
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