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    RCAF Station Penhold was a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) station located near Penhold, Alberta, Canada. In 1939, farmland...
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  • This is a list of stations operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), or stations where RCAF units existed, from 1924 until unification into the...
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    Air Cadet Summer Training Centre (PACSTC). The PACSTC was formerly RCAF Station Penhold. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada...
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  • Penhold is a town in central Alberta, Canada. Penhold is surrounded by Red Deer County, 16 km (9.9 mi) south of Red Deer at the junction of Highway 2A...
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    – Received 11 T-34A and Bs from Uruguay in 2000. RCAF Cpurses 5409 and 5411, RCAF Station, Penhold, Alberta  Canada Royal Canadian Air Force - 25 T-34A...
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    5 OTU left the airfield on 31 October 1945, and the RCAF decommissioned the station in 1946. RCAF Boundary Bay's last official function of the war was...
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    French: Base des Forces canadiennes Borden or BFC Borden), formerly RCAF Station Camp Borden, is a large Canadian Forces base located in Ontario. The...
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    Chibougamau CFS Moisie CFS Mont Apica CFS Lac St. Denis CFS Senneterre RCAF Station Parent CFS Val-d'Or Saskatchewan: CFS Alsask CFS Dana CFS Yorkton Yukon:...
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  • September. RCAF Station Debert closed soon after but was still owned and maintained by the RCAF. In approximately 1942 the aerodrome was listed as RCAF Aerodrome...
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    joined the RCAF and trained at the RCAF Officer Selection Unit (Ontario) and Course 5411, 4 Flying Training School (RCAF Station Penhold, Alberta). During...
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    tensions, the aerodrome was reactivated by the RCAF in 1953 as the site of military pilot training. RCAF Station Moose Jaw undertook additional construction...
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  • out the services provided. During World War II, the airport was RCAF Station Penhold. The airbase was home to the Royal Air Force, No. 36 Service Flying...
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    granted the royal prefix effective 13 March 1923, becoming RCAF Unit Dartmouth, then RCAF Station Dartmouth in early October. None of these changes, nor the...
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    World War, Blatchford Field became a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) training station under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. No. 16 Elementary...
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  • RCAF Station Parent was a Canadian early warning radar station and formed part of the Pinetree Line air defence network. Ground was broken in 1951, and...
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  • Canadian Air Force (RCAF) between 1940–1941 and was named RCAF Station Summerside. It was home to No. 9 Service Flying Training School RCAF, a flight school...
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    Commander-in-Chief, US Atlantic Fleet at Naval Station Norfolk, and from 1966 to 1968 concluded his RCAF career as Base Operations Officer for two squadrons...
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    RCAF Station Winnipeg also became an important supply and repair depot and base to ferry and inspect units for the air force. Following the war, RCAF...
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    continued through the winter and following spring on RCAF Station St-Honoré near Chicoutimi and RCAF Station Bagotville in La Baie. The base at St-Honoré opened...
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    1944, RAF Station Greenwood transitioned to the RCAF, becoming RCAF Station Greenwood with No. 36 OTU (RAF) disbanding and No. 8 OTU (RCAF) forming in...
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    with the aircraft being flown to Elmendorf Field, near Anchorage from RCAF Station Whitehorse upon their arrival. Three main types of combat aircraft were...
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  • RCAF Station St. Margarets is a former Royal Canadian Air Force station and later a Canadian Forces detachment located in the community of St. Margarets...
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  • as RCAF Station Downsview and became part of the Canadian military's front-line defence of the region. The February 1, 1968, unification of the RCAF, Royal...
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    Forces Base Trenton (IATA: YTR, ICAO: CYTR) (also CFB Trenton), formerly RCAF Station Trenton, is a Canadian Forces base located within the city of Quinte...
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    repairing FM213. This ultimately led to Clifford Doan's farm near RCAF Station Penhold where KB895 "Lady Orchid" was in terrible condition. The centre section...
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    NATO. RCAF personnel, aircraft and equipment were transferred to the new RCAF Station Lahr by March 1967 with dependents to follow later. The RCAF moved...
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    Crew and Braham also commanded RCAF Station North Bay for brief periods. No. 3 AW(F)OTU transferred to RCAF Station Cold Lake in mid-1955. Among No....
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    and infrastructure. The Canadian and American bases were built as an RCAF station and later a United States Air Force base known as Goose AB, housing units...
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    convoys in the North Atlantic from enemy U-boats. The airfield was renamed RCAF Station Gander in 1941 and it became heavily used by Ferry Command for transporting...
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    expansion of the station with a correspondingly greater number of personnel stationed there. The 1 February 1968 unification of the RCN, RCAF, and army to...
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