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On July 7th the RCAF Dunnville Museum held it’s last fly-in at the former WWII training base. Wind Turbines will be erected on the airfield that will close the airport permanently to air traffic. The Museum will stay open in a former WWII hangar.
Starting in late spring of 1940, Timbro Construction turned working farmland into an active airfield that was to become the site of the No. 6 SFTS, including five hangars, three double runways, 50 H-huts, a drill hall, a canteen, a fire hall, and other buildings. The site was chosen because it was not near controlled air space and was close to the open water of Lake Erie. The No. 6 SFTS was one of the first Service Flying Training Schools to be built especially to train Air Force pilots. As a result, it was the only one to use structural steel in the construction of the hangars. (Those five hangars are still in use today.) Subsequent Service Flying Training Schools were built using wooden trusses to preserve steel for the war effort. The first course of pilot trainees reported in November, 1940.
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