Weyburn Airport is located north-east of
Weyburn
Weyburn is the tenth-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 11,019. It is on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina and is north from the North Dakota border in the ...
,
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...
, Canada at the hamlet of
North Weyburn.
History
The aerodrome was constructed in 1941 by the
Royal Canadian Air Force
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; ) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environmental commands within the unified Can ...
(RCAF) as part of the
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), often referred to as simply "The Plan", was a large-scale multinational military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the Second Wo ...
. The station was home to No. 41 Service Flying Training School, and during its operation graduated 1,055 pilots and recorded more than 180,000 hours of flight time before being abandoned on 30 June 1944.
Post-war
Other uses included a children's physiological hospital in the 1950s and the home of the
Western Christian College from 1957 until 1989.
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Current use
Some of the original hangars are still in existence.
Two runways remain in operation, while runway 18/36 is abandoned.[
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See also
* List of airports in Saskatchewan
This is a list of airports in Saskatchewan. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, Aerodrome#Canada, aerodromes and heliports in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Air ...
* RCAF Station Weyburn
References
External links
City of Weyburn Services
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Certified airports in Saskatchewan
Airports established in 1941
Airports of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Weyburn No. 67, Saskatchewan
Weyburn